Staff MEMS Sensor Designer

San Jose, CA

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