engineering
Posted 2 hours agoStaff/ Senior/ Principal Systems Engineer - R&D
South San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Integration strategy: Build the integration plan (bring-up sequencing, dependency mapping, integration test strategy) and lead cross-functional execution through integration milestones.
- Complex debugging & Root Cause Analysis: Drive root-cause across subsystems; implement corrective actions and regression prevention (design changes, test additions, process updates).
- Design review leadership: Lead system-level design reviews and readiness gates around architecture, integration readiness and verification readiness.
- Strong track record of leading cross-functional technical decisions and delivering integrated prototypes that meet defined acceptance criteria.
Requirements
- This role resolves the hardest technical tradeoffs, drives technical alignment across teams, and raises the organization’s systems engineering bar through mentorship and standards. The candidate must have a strong and experienced background in Bioprocessing, Bioreactor design, and applications and have a breadth of understanding of Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Embedded, and Software). What You’ll Do: •
- Advanced degree (Masters or PhD preferred) in Bioengineering, Chemistry, Biology, or a related field.
- experience with 10+ years in the biopharma, biotech, or life science field. Significant
- Expert ability to write concise system
- experience with software, writing scripts (Python) and using CAD tools to evaluate mechanical and electrical designs.
- Experience with ambiguity-heavy programs: rapid prototyping, evolving requirements, and parallel exploration.
- You consider your ability to organize and plan as one of your greatest strengths.
- You have strong analytical skills with the ability to create data-driven technical solutions and proposals.
Experience
- 15+ years of Industry
Benefits
- This position based in our office located in South San Francisco and is required to be onsite 5 days a week. Base Salary Range :
- Culture Biosciences's compensation package includes market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, and great benefits.
- Our expected base salary range for this role is: $165,000 to 260,000.
- Competitive salary and equity compensation
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance
- Responsible Time Off (non-accrual based) policy, 11 paid company holidays and a week-long winter break
- 12 weeks of parental leave at full salary
Additional details
- Culture’s mission is to simplify and accelerate bioprocess development to enable our customers to bring their biopharmaceutical products to market faster.
- With a focus on upstream cell culture process development, Culture has developed a unique platform that merges products, services and data management that can be applied to mammalian, microbial and viral vector production processes.
- This platform enables high-throughput process development projects to be rapidly and seamlessly executed directly by our customers in their own facilities, in our service laboratories, or both, all driven by our cloud-connected web application, accessible from anywhere, for designing, managing and analyzing experiments.
- At Culture, we combine our passions for biomanufacturing, engineering, and operations to build new solutions that make bioprocess development faster.
- We value curiosity, communication, collaboration, a customer focused mindset and a drive for results.
- Culture Biosciences is looking for a Staff/ Senior Staff/ Principal Systems Engineer in R&D as the technical authority for end-to-end system design and integration of complex, cross-disciplinary platforms.
- The candidate will translate Business Needs into R&D objectives and system architectures. They define interfaces and requirements, and lead integration and verification strategy from prototype through pre-production readiness.
- Requirements & interface leadership: Establish User Needs, System Requirements, and traceability to verification and validation (clear, testable, version-controlled).
- System architecture ownership: Define the end-to-end architecture, subsystem boundaries, and interfaces across mechanical, electrical, firmware/software, controls, and test.
- Technical tradeoff studies: Lead tradeoffs of performance, reliability, safety, cost, manufacturability, and document decisions, assumptions, and risks.