E184

E184

Head of Bioengineering

Portland, Oregon

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 138 days ago
Embedded SystemsSystems EngineeringControlsResearchLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

  • Unrivaled impact: Your work directly enables technology that transforms human fertility and reproductive medicine.
  • Full-spectrum growth: Gain exposure to the entire lifecycle of discovery.
  • From screening to mechanistic validation.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the development of the company's core technology platform, integrating fluidic, mechanical, sensing, and computational subsystems into cohesive, reliable ex utero support systems.
  • Apply closed-loop design principles, redundancy strategies, and failure-mode analysis to ensure robustness, safety, and continuous operation of complex biological platforms.
  • Build, mentor, and guide multidisciplinary engineering teams across mechanical, electrical, software, and computational domains while fostering technical excellence and collaborative problem solving.
  • Partner closely with scientific teams to convert physiological and developmental requirements into engineering specifications and data-driven design decisions.
  • Establish technical roadmaps, manage engineering milestones, and communicate progress and strategy to executive leadership.
  • Guide system design toward manufacturability, reliability, and regulatory readiness, supporting future clinical translation.
  • You will build and lead a multidisciplinary engineering organization while establishing rigorous systems-engineering practices that ensure reliability, safety, and manufacturability.
  • Architect integrated biological systems: Define and lead the development of the company's core technology platform, integrating fluidic, mechanical, sensing, and computational subsystems into cohesive, reliable ex utero support systems.
  • Implement systems engineering rigor: Apply closed-loop design principles, redundancy strategies, and failure-mode analysis to ensure robustness, safety, and continuous operation of complex biological platforms.
  • Develop sensing and control infrastructure: Oversee integration of biosensors, optical monitoring, embedded systems, and real-time data acquisition pipelines enabling adaptive environmental control and automated experimentation.

Requirements

  • Lead engineering design of perfusion architectures, oxygenation systems, mechanical assemblies, and environmental control systems required for stable long-duration biological support.
  • Work alongside a world-class team who are as driven as you are.
  • It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required.
  • You will design and oversee the development of integrated systems spanning perfusion, sensing, automation, control architecture, and mechanical infrastructure required for artificial gestation technologies.

Benefits

  • Role overview As Head of Bioengineering at e184 Artificial Womb lab, you will lead the technical vision, architecture, and execution of the engineering platforms that enable long-term ex utero biological support.

Company info

  • Experience the creative chaos of an early-stage startup with the stability of a well-capitalized company.
  • Best of both worlds: Experience the creative chaos of an early-stage startup with the stability of a well-capitalized company.
  • You´ll stand out with

This listing is sourced directly from E184's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.