Job Description

SequLITE Genomics (a subsidiary of Fapon Biotech) is a growing life science company developing an NGS platform to enable sequencing for everyone. We are seeking an enthusiastic engineer to join our Next Generation Sequencer Development team as a Senior or Staff Mechanical Engineer. The ideal candidate for this position will be a creative, proactive, and highly collaborative development engineer with profound knowledge and extended experience in platform development and mechanical design for Next Generation Sequencing instruments. In this role, you will work on designing, prototyping, building and maintaining various fluidic and mechanical systems/structures and be responsible for working with biochemistry and other Engineering teams to define key parameters for system-level operation. You will participate in technical breakthroughs of a versatile fluidic system and validation tasks of its performance and technical reliability. Hands-on experience using mechanical and thermal simulation tools and related programs is an advantage.

Key Responsibilities

Perform various mechanical and fluidic research to ensure technical validity and performance.

Design, prototype and build key consumable parts and instrumental interface

Develop thermal cycling modules and mechanical clamping mechanisms for part integration

Work with other teams to define key design parameters for system-level development

Participate in the technical breakthroughs of the various system modules and their integration

Work with manufacturing vendors for efficient development process

Help make strategic planning and implementation of nanopore sequencing, including development path research, pre-research, top-level design, and layout of the nanopore sequencing technologies