Staff MEMS Sensor Designer
Xenter is a technology in medicine company that is bringing medical devices to the digital age. Xenter is revolutionizing medicine by developing and launching smart/wireless guidewires and catheters that transmit data through a proprietary wireless network to our proprietary cloud that houses real time Physical Intelligence medical data.
Reports to: VP, Semiconductor Technology
Location: San Francisco Bay Area or Salt Lake City
Salary Range: $150K to $230K
Overview:
You will be a key member in the sensor team responsible for designing and verifying pressure sensor for medical applications. You will design the state-of-art MEMS pressure sensor to meet to product requirements for cardiovascular procedure. You will be expected to take high level user requirements and create a realizable system that meets these goals. This will include modeling of proposed solutions, verifying the design and assisting process engineers on fabrication. This is a highly cross-functional role, and you will work with others to identify critical aspects of how the design will interact with the overall product.
Responsibilities:
· Design MEMS pressure sensor to be used in medical devices.
· Work closely with the system architects, mechanical engineers, and electrical engineers to define constraints and requirements including performance, power and area targets.
· Provide assistance to process engineers on wafer fabrication development.
· Validate the performance of the design.
· Assist testing team and verification team including test methodology development.
· Participate in strategic planning for new sensing platforms and techniques.
· Partner with external vendors and key opinion leaders to understand and identify technical strategies for improving the safety and performance of the medical devices.
· Collaborate with the other Engineering teams, Quality, and Regulatory functions on knowledge transfer and document generation.
· Actively contribute to product innovation and intellectual property (IP) by generating ideas and demonstrating their feasibility through proof-of-concept studies.
· Collaborate with specialists from cross-disciplinary design and technology teams.
Minimum Experience:
· 5+ years of experience working with MEMS sensor design.
· Understanding of sensor silicon design with hands-on experience with modeling and FEA.
· Familiar with MEMS sensor fabrication processes, especial for pressure sensor.
· Experienced on MEMS sensor characterization methodology development.
· Strong knowledge of engineering materials and properties.
· Strong problem-solving skills and be able work in a fast paced collaborative environment. Be able to adapt to priority and task change quickly. Focus on details and getting tasks to completion. Independently explore new innovative ideas.
· Interested in working in an interdisciplinary, small team environment.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills and solid teamwork skills.
Minimum Education:
· MS or PhD in MEMS, electrical engineering, materials science, physics or similar