Electro-Mechanical Senior Technician

Position Overview
Are you searching for an opportunity to apply your expert building skills to the next generation of medical imaging technology? We’re looking for a senior technician that can build complex electro-mechanical devices to support both our engineering and manufacturing teams. Our ideal candidate is highly experienced at building and testing R&D prototypes and is comfortable working with limited documentation. You know how to use fabrication tools to modify parts to make them work and can document all your changes. You can talk to engineers to explain what’s actually happening in the build. As an individual contributor, you will report to the engineering manager and will regularly collaborate with the rest of the engineering team. You will also work closely with manufacturing to support production. In the near-term, you will learn how to build Magnetic Particle Imaging scanners and become proficient building the specialized assemblies. In the long-term, you will work closely with the hardware engineers to ensure clinical scanners are designed for manufacturability.

About Magnetic Insight
Magnetic Insight is a venture-backed and government (NIH) grant-funded biotech startup that’s bringing to market the first new medical imaging technology in 40 years. Our mission is to establish clinical Magnetic Particle Imaging as a powerful tool for monitoring the treatment of solid tumor cancers and inflammatory diseases. To succeed, we’re bringing together a diverse group of scientists, engineers, and specialists located primarily in the East Bay Area, CA. We are focusing on technology development in this funding round, so we’ll continue to fundraise as we complete deliverables and pass milestones. We are looking for talented, agile, and hardworking people, who want to collaborate and innovate with a tight knit team and embrace the start-up rollercoaster ride.

Magnetic Insight’s Core Values:

• Customer Focus: We succeed as a company only when we satisfy our customers.
• Resourcefulness: We prioritize, focus, and act creatively with the resources available.
• Clarity: Clear leadership, vision, and goals are necessary for the organization to operate at its best.
• Collaboration: We achieve synergy and excellence when team members have a safe space to speak and contribute.
• Empiricism: We use data and apply quantitative reasoning when making decisions and developing processes.

Magnetic Insight’s Culture
In December, our team met to discuss our existing culture and what makes us unique. Some of the attributes mentioned were:

• There is a sense of belonging and ideas are welcomed from anyone.
• We truly must collaborate – and we do! We rely heavily on each other as resources.
• The company accepts and encourages prioritizing your family and personal health.
• There is an unusual level of empathy.
• Employees are given structure with directives from management, but employees are relied upon to prioritize themselves.
• Mistakes aren’t punished. No one really points the finger. We see how to fix it and move on.
  • Comment from management: We want to continually evaluate this to make sure these qualities aren’t falling apart under stress.
• Leadership listens, accepts feedback, and implements change. They show appreciation.
• As a small company, we’re learning as we go and adjusting along the way.
• We are on board with riding the swings, embracing the challenges, and doing tasks that aren’t always fun in order to get the job done.

And finally: we have a real shot at actually helping patients.

Magnetic Insight’s Benefits

• 100% medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and 90% for dependents
• HSA, FSA, commuter benefits
• HSA employer contributions
• Waiver stipends for those not utilizing medical benefits
• Employer-paid life insurance/ AD&D up to your annual salary
• Supplemental long-term disability coverage
• 10 paid holidays, 3 weeks of vacation, and 6 days sick leave
• 2 weeks paid sabbatical after every 3rd year of service
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 401(k) employer matching of up to approximately $7,000 per year
• Free personalized financial planning services from Origin
• 2 weeks paid parental leave
• Shuttle to/from BART and the Ferry Terminal to our Alameda facility provided by Harbor Bay Business Park

Qualification Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and Experience Requirements

Required

• 8+ years’ experience as an assembler, technician, or designer working on a hardware product.
• Experience building, testing, or servicing electro-mechanical components or systems.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Preferred

• Associates degree
• Experience working with life science analytical instrumentation.
• Experience working under ISO13485 or 21CFR part 820.
• Experience working with radiology imaging equipment (MRI, CT, PET, etc.).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (In addition to those listed, other duties may be assigned.)

• Build electro-mechanical assemblies and systems for commercial production, R&D test, and clinical test.
• Conduct tests to verify and validate performance of systems.
• Generate documentation, including BOMs, drawings, schematics, and procedures based on the build and testing done.
• Document and redline existing documents during new builds, to be used by engineering and document control to generate formalized procedures.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues during builds and tests and document the deviations.
• Fulfill operations responsibilities, including inventory management, shipping, and receiving as needed.
• Maintain the engineering workspace, including organizing equipment, parts, and tools.
• Maintain calibrations on measurement and test equipment.
• Lift and carry up to 30 lbs, in the form of parts and equipment.

Other Skills and Abilities

• Proficient in the use of power fabrication tools such as drill presses, saws, and mills to create and modify parts.
• Proficient in the use of measurement and test equipment for both mechanical and electrical measurements and data collection.
• Proficient in the use of manual and power assembly tools.
• Proficient in Word, Excel, and other basic computer applications to create and modify documents.

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Classification: Full-time, salaried, exempt

Schedule: Regular full-time working hours, ability to work evening hours and overtime as needed.

Workplace Location: This position is on-site full time at our office in Alameda, CA.

If interested, please submit a resume and cover letter answering the questions of what you’re looking for in the role and why Magnetic Insight to careers@magneticinsight.com.

Our Company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, genetic information, disability, and for employees working in California, ancestry, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected medical condition, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.