What are the responsibilities and job description for the System Engineer - Electrical (Summer 2025 start date) position at Neocis, Inc.?
About us
Neocis is an established start-up revolutionizing dentistry with Yomi, the first, and only FDA cleared robot for assisted dental surgery. The company collaborates closely with leading clinicians to develop innovative technologies that help advance patient care and improve quality of life. Based in Miami, Florida. Neocis is venture-backed with funding from several prominent investors.
What’s in it for you?
- You’ll thrive in our innovative and collaborative environment
- Make an immediate impact on life-changing technology
- Avoid silos and “not my job” mentality in our smaller, fast paced, startup environment
- We offer sabbatical, parental leave and unlimited PTO policies
- Generous 401K plan with 4% company match
- Comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision.
Start date: This position will start around Summer 2025
The Role: As a key member of our Hardware team, you’ll be contributing to the design and development of our current and next generation robotics system. With focus on the electrical side of our platform, the Systems Engineer will be responsible for defining and improving system architecture of our robotics platform.
What you’ll do:
- Lead projects for definition and improvements of system architecture with focus on electrical components
- Develop modeling, simulation and estimation to understand the impact of electrical components on system performance (signal quality, communication protocols, latency, sensor specs, power delivery, emission, reliability)
- Develop system architectures, quickly identifying and resolving bottlenecks and conflicts across sub-systems and components from different domains
- Development of initial prototypes and R&D demonstrator, towards improved performances and/or reliability of electrical and electronics components.
- Perform risk analysis to help guide design of safe medical devices
- Generate high-quality technical documentation, for both establishment of new solutions, and continuous development of existing designs
- Define and iterate sub-system specifications and requirements
- Design and development of testing processes, with specific focus on relevant and meaningful metrics to harmonize equipment verification and desired performance
- Effectively work with cross-functional teams including mechanical, software and electrical engineers as well as clinical, project management, product development and marketing staff
- Support, improve and educate regarding Verification and Validation activities, as well as advanced troubleshooting for systems’ field or manufacturing roadblocks
- Follow-up with lifecycle teams (quality, manufacturing, operation) to ensure newly introduced products or processes maintain a high standard of reliability and performance
- Directly contribute to product development by proposing novel solutions and approaches for enhanced system performance, and new applications
What you’ll bring:
- BS degree in Electrical Engineering required plus a MS degree with focus on Robotics
- Strong understanding of robotic principle (kinematic and dynamic modeling, control theory…)
- Proficient in Schematic capture, PCB layout, PCBs bring-up and prototyping, DfM and DfA
- Experience with mixed-signal electronic design for precise sensing preferred
- Proficient in use of and maintaining laboratory equipment (power supply, oscilloscope, multimeter, solder station, signal generator)
- Demonstrated knowledge of analog and/or digital design
- Strong robotics programming (e.g. Python, C, C ) skills and experience with robotic packages
- Problem-solving skills, with ability to abstract and generalize
- Experience in documenting and testing electro-mechanical systems
- Excellent communication, teamwork, interpersonal skills with the ability to self-direct required
- Experience with data-collection via basic interfaces (e.g. Arduino, DAQ), and data post-processing and statistics (e.g. Matlab, Python, Minitab) preferred
- Experience with medical devices preferred
- Experience with the following regulations preferred:
- FDA 21 CFR Part 820 – FDA Quality System Regulation
- IEC 60601-1- Safety standard for electro-medical devices
- ISO 13485 - Medical Devices Quality Management Systems – Requirements for Regulatory Purposes
What else?
This is a full-time position. This position occasionally requires long hours and weekend work.
This position requires up to 10% travel. Frequently travel is outside the local area and overnight.
This job operates in a professional office/manufacturing/clinical environment. The main location of this role is in a medical devices manufacturing facility and requires:
- The regular use of CMMs and machining equipment, and occasional use of CBCT scanners
- Prolonged periods working on a computer
- Ability to lift/push/carry items up to 50 pounds
- Frequent exposure to loud/moderate noise
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
