About the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, Geneva, Switzerland
The Wyss Center is an independent not-for-profit translational R&D organization focused on advancing disruptive neurotechnologies to transform the lives of people with neurological and mental health disorders. The Center pursues transformational technologies in artificial intelligence, bio- and neuroengineering to restore essential neural functions and deliver precision therapeutics for people with debilitating neurological and mental health disorders.
Based at Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland, the Wyss Center partners with faculty, clinicians and industry, in Switzerland and internationally, to drive innovation and maximize clinical impact. The Wyss Center was established by a generous donation from the Swiss entrepreneur and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss in 2014.
About the NeuroGI Program
NeuroGI is a Wyss Center research program exploring the connection between gut and brain health. Disorders of gut-brain interaction, such as irritable bowel syndrome, affect a large share of the population. NeuroGI combines neuroscience, imaging, and engineering to develop new diagnostic and therapeutic solutions. The program spans from early feasibility to first prototypes for human use, aiming to improve management of gut-brain disorders.
About the Position
The Electrical Engineer will play a central role in the development of a first-generation medical device platform for the measurement of gastrointestinal electrical activity from within the body. The role will focus on the design, integration, testing and verification of low-power electronic subsystems for biosignal acquisition, motion sensing, local data storage, wireless communication and power management.
The ideal candidate is an experienced electrical or electronic systems engineer with a strong background in miniaturized, battery-powered medical devices, implantable or ingestible sensing systems, wearable biosignal monitoring, electrophysiology instrumentation or ultra-low-power connected health technologies. They combine hands-on hardware development expertise with systems-level thinking, rigorous documentation practices and the ability to translate designs from research to a regulated medical device development environment.
Key responsibilities
In his/her position, the Electrical Engineer will have a broad set of responsibilities which includes:
- Design and develop electronic subsystems for the NeuroGI platform. - Define and refine the system-level electrical architecture for gastrointestinal electrical activity monitoring, including ultra-low-power embedded hardware architectures and wireless communication solutions. - Develop analog front-end electronics for low-amplitude biopotential acquisition from mucosal electrodes, including signal conditioning, filtering, amplification, analog-to-digital conversion, buffering and timestamping. - Collaborate closely with firmware and software engineers throughout design, prototyping and verification, and develop bring-up and test firmware to configure and validate electronic subsystems during hardware verification. - Design, build and document test fixtures and experimental setups for electronic characterization. - Conduct debugging, root-cause analysis and design improvements during prototype development, preclinical testing and design verification. - Contribute to hardware requirements, risk analysis, verification plans, test protocols, test reports, design reviews and traceability documentation under the Wyss Center quality management system. - Support components and supplier selection, design for manufacturability, design transfer and preparation of technical documentation for future regulatory submissions.
Profile required
Required competence and experience:
- Minimum bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or a closely related discipline. - Minimum 5 years of relevant experience developing electronic systems for medical devices, life-science instrumentation, implantable or ingestible devices, wearable biosignal monitoring systems or similarly regulated products. - Fluency with medical electrical equipment guidelines according to IEC 60601-1. - Strong experience in analog and mixed-signal circuit design for low-level physiological signals. - Hands-on experience with schematic capture, PCB design including RF-aware layout, bring-up, debugging and design verification of compact electronic systems. - Experience with multi-sensor low-power embedded electronics, energy-budget optimization and wireless biomedical communication systems. - Ability to generate high-quality engineering documentation, including specifications, design descriptions, test protocols, test reports and traceability evidence. - Experience with medical device development processes, design controls and risk management, preferably under ISO 13485 and ISO 14971. - Ability to write bring-up and test firmware for hardware verification, including register-level device configuration, communication buses (SPI, I2C) and basic I/O and memory access, in embedded C. Production and application firmware is developed by a dedicated firmware engineer. - Excellent problem-solving, analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a practical hands-on approach to prototype development. - Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary, translational R&D environment. - Fluent in spoken and written English language.
Additional competence:
- Experience with implantable, ingestible, capsule endoscopy, neuromodulation, cardiac, gastrointestinal, neural or electrophysiology devices. - Experience designing electronics for miniaturized devices operating in humid, fluidic or physiologically challenging environments. - Experience developing application or production firmware for embedded devices, including RTOS-based architectures, wireless protocol stacks and low-power firmware design. Familiarity with biosignal acquisition principles, noise reduction, grounding, shielding, filtering and signal integrity. - Knowledge of medical electrical safety, EMC/EMI testing and relevant IEC standards applicable to medical electrical equipment. - Experience with secure embedded systems, device authentication, encryption, cybersecurity and protection of patient data. - Experience with FPGA, ASIC, custom analog front-end development or advanced low-noise acquisition electronics. - Experience supporting preclinical or clinical evaluation of medical device prototypes. - Experience with design for manufacturing, supplier management, design transfer and scale-up of complex electronic systems.
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