Calyxo
Principal Hardware Engineer - Fluidics - Pleasanton, CA
Pleasanton, CA · Principal
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4 days ago
AlgorithmsEmbedded SystemsMechanical DesignElectrical EngineeringControlsMedical DevicesResearchLeadershipActuators
About the role
- Calyxo, Inc. is a medical device company headquartered in Pleasanton, California, USA.
- Kidney stone disease is a common, painful condition that consumes vast amounts of healthcare resources each year.
- Our team is led by executives and investors with a proven track record of commercializing paradigm-shifting devices to meet unmet needs within urology.
Responsibilities
- Own and architect end-to-end fluid control systems across capital equipment and disposable instruments/tubing sets.
- Define and drive development of control algorithms to regulate irrigation and aspiration under varying clinical and patient conditions.
- Perform system modeling, trade studies, prototyping and bench testing to educate key component selection (pumps, sensors, actuators), validate decisions and de-risk technical challenges.
- Individually contribute to mechanical/electromechanical design for critical fluidics subsystem components and assemblies and provide expert design review of other team-members designs.
- Lead cross-functional alignment across internal teams and external partners to ensure architectural integrity, V&V readiness, and production scalability.
- Collaborate with Systems & Test Engineering to drive design verification test planning and execution for fluid control hardware subsystems.
- Lead hardware sub-system risk management activities (e.g., FMEA).
- Organize system/sub-system-level technical design reviews to ensure coherent design across hardware, firmware and software interfaces.
- Collaborate with suppliers and internal operations representatives to perform root cause investigation, component lifecycle management and continuous improvement.
- Partner closely with mechanical, electrical, software, systems, clinical, quality, regulatory and other cross-functional teams to bring prototypes to the market.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience developing fluidic, mechatronic, or control systems in a regulated product environment.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related discipline.
- Master's or PhD in a relevant engineering discipline preferred.
- Experience with owning end-to-end hardware system architectures for fluidic control systems.
Benefits
- Director, Vision and Sensor Systems
Company info
- The company was founded in 2016 to address the profound need for improved kidney stone treatment.
- Are you ready to change the future of kidney stone treatment?
- We are seeking high achievers who want to be part of a dynamic team working in a fun, diverse atmosphere.
- We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative hardware engineer to lead development of advanced fluidic subsystems in kidney stone treatment.
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