Manager, Electronics & Firmware

About the role

The Manager, Electronics & Firmware will lead the design, development, integration, and commercialization of electronics and embedded firmware platforms supporting Cytek's next-generation flow cytometry and imaging instrumentation. This role combines people leadership with hands-on technical leadership, guiding a team of electrical and firmware engineers through product development from architecture and feasibility through verification, manufacturing transfer, and sustaining support. The ideal candidate brings expertise in mixed-signal electronics, embedded systems, FPGA-based data acquisition, real-time instrument control, and scientific instrumentation.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of electrical and firmware engineers; establish engineering priorities, technical roadmaps, and development plans aligned with product objectives; drive execution through effective project planning, technical reviews, and engineering best practices; foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Electronics & Firmware Development: Lead architecture and development of electronic subsystems including PCBAs, embedded processors, FPGAs, GPUs, detector interfaces, data acquisition hardware, communications interfaces, and instrument control electronics; oversee development of embedded firmware supporting instrument control, data acquisition, signal processing, diagnostics, calibration, and automated quality control; manage development of GPU-accelerated and CUDA-based solutions supporting image acquisition, feature extraction, real-time processing, and scientific data analysis workflows; guide schematic capture, component selection, PCB design reviews, and design-for-manufacturing and design-for-test activities; drive hardware and firmware integration, debugging, performance optimization, and root-cause investigations; establish subsystem requirements, interface definitions, verification strategies, and technical design standards.
• System Integration & Product Development: Partner with optical, mechanical, fluidics, software, systems, scientific, and product management teams to deliver integrated instrument solutions; lead prototype bring-up, subsystem integration, verification, validation, and manufacturing transfer activities; support production test development, engineering builds, pilot production, and sustaining engineering efforts; collaborate with Operations and NPI teams to improve product quality, reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability.
• Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical escalation point for complex electronics and firmware challenges; drive innovation in detector electronics, signal acquisition, embedded control systems, imaging systems, and scientific instrumentation; evaluate emerging technologies and architectures to strengthen future product platforms; collaborate with engineering teams, suppliers, and manufacturing partners in the United States and China.
• Regulatory & Quality Compliance: Ensure designs comply with applicable safety, EMC, quality, and regulatory requirements; support DHF documentation, risk management, design reviews, and verification testing; promote disciplined engineering practices including configuration management, requirements traceability, design controls, and engineering change management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related engineering discipline; Master's degree preferred.
• 8+ years of experience developing complex electronic and embedded systems for scientific, analytical, medical device, biotechnology, or industrial instrumentation products.
• 3+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience.
• Strong expertise in analog and digital circuit design, mixed-signal systems, PCB development, and embedded electronics.
• Experience developing embedded firmware in C/C++ for microcontroller, processor, or FPGA-based platforms.
• Experience with FPGA architectures, real-time control systems, and high-speed data acquisition hardware.
• Experience debugging complex hardware and firmware interactions using modern laboratory instrumentation and development tools.
• Experience with EMC/ESD design, testing, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven experience delivering products