Computer Engineer - Firmware/Software
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About the Company
Key Tech is an engineering and product development consultancy that helps companies design, develop, and manufacture complex medical and life science products. Founded in 1998, Key Tech brings 25+ years of custom product engineering for medical, industrial, and consumer markets. Our primary focus is on organizations developing medical devices, in vitro diagnostics (IVD), life science instruments, pharmaceutical delivery devices, and cell & gene therapy equipment.
What sets Key Tech apart is our multidisciplinary approach. Our team of engineers and designers work together to solve challenging technical problems while balancing performance, usability, manufacturability, quality, cost, and regulatory requirements. Our company culture is hard to beat: we work in a beautifully restored 100-year-old theater and are proud to be a dog-friendly office. Monthly social gatherings, quarterly team events, and a healthy dose of everyday fun create an engaging workplace that complements the satisfying and challenging design work at the heart of our company.
Responsibilities
- Do real high-tech engineering of medical devices in a laid-back setting
- Work on continually new and interesting hands-on medical device design work, learning and advancing your career more in one year than at any other company
- Develop embedded algorithms that drive motors, move mechanisms, measure optical signals, and communicate with PC software
- Help pick processors and design embedded architectures that will be in the next generation of medical devices
- Test your code on custom Key Tech-designed boards—see your software in action
- Design a complex code base to control microfluidic flow
- Design a thermal control system which simultaneously measures optical signals
- Create code that controls a pneumatic system for DNA analysis
Requirements
- 0-5 years of experience in engineering or related field
Pay
$90K/yr - $125K/yr