Senior Hardware Test Engineer, Beacon Biosignals
3 days a week in office
AI brain monitoring
Be an early applicant
AI brain monitoring
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To improve human health by enabling rapid, targeted interventions through advanced brain analytics.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field
- 5+ years of professional engineering experience with a BS degree, or 3+ years of professional engineering experience with an MS degree or above
- Experience writing detailed technical specifications and documentation, including requirements, test plans, protocols, and reports
- Ability to read and follow electrical schematics
- Experience with embedded software that runs on a real-time operating system (RTOS)
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python
- Experience troubleshooting, debugging, and performing root cause analysis of hardware and firmware issues in electromechanical systems
- Experience with tools such as Git and Jira, and platforms such as GitHub
- Knowledge of design controls and regulations for medical devices
What the job involves
- In this role as a test engineer specializing in hardware and firmware, you will contribute to the development of new and modified EEG and Home Sleep Test systems that meet application, business, customer, and regulatory requirements. You will work on the Device Team, report to the VP of Device Systems, and collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, system, and software engineers. You will be responsible for hardware characterization and verification tests, firmware unit tests, integration tests, verification tests, system integration, root cause analysis, and documentation to meet quality requirements
- As a hardware test engineer, you will strive for the greatest quality and reliability in our products. You will collaborate with design, research, manufacturing, and quality colleagues to develop products from concept to commercialization. You will contribute to product ideation, development, integration verification, and manufacturing. You will also document design and production processes in accordance with applicable product development procedures, quality, and regulatory requirements
- Beacon’s asynchronous work practices support a remote work experience, with in-person office hubs in Boston, New York, and Paris. This role is required to work from the Boston office on average approximately 3 days per week, with flexible days and hours
- Develop and execute device testing in accordance with Beacon’s QMS
- Develop and document test plans, test protocols, and test scripts for embedded systems, including hardware, firmware, and software, based on design specifications and requirements
- Develop and maintain test procedures, fixtures, and equipment
- Conduct functional, integration, system, and regression testing on hardware and firmware
- Work closely with hardware and firmware engineers to troubleshoot and resolve product issues
- Ensure products meet industry standards, safety, and regulatory requirements (e.g., FDA, CE, 60601)
- Implement process improvements and test automation to enhance product quality and testing efficiency
Our take
The brain has long been considered one of the most mysterious fields of medicine - and psychiatric and neurological diseases therefore one of the least understood. Better access to real-time brain data, however, could change this and that’s exactly what Beacon Biosignals is hoping to deliver.
Beacon Biosignals has developed an AI-powered EEG platform designed to better measure and understand brain activity. Its technology includes a lightweight wearable headband that tracks brain signals during sleep and at home, feeding huge amounts of real-world data into machine-learning models. The aim is to help researchers analyze brain activity faster, identify new biomarkers, and improve the development of treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders.
The company recently raised major funding and acquired home sleep testing specialist CleveMed as it expands its AI-powered brain health platform. Its FDA-cleared wearable headband is already being used in more than 40 clinical trails studying conditions like depression, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and sleep disorders. By collecting millions of hours of brain activity data, Beacon hopes to help researchers detect diseases earlier and better understand how the brain changes over time.
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Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2026
$11m
SERIES B
Nov 2025
$86m
SERIES B
Total funding: $127.5m
Company HQ
Beacon Hill, Boston, MA
Leadership
Jarrett Revels
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding Beacon Biosignals in 2019, Jarrett spent 4 years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joining as a Scientific Programmer before become a Performance Engineer then Research Software Developer.
Jacob Donoghue
(Co-Founder & CEO)Jacob completed a Neuroscience PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his MD from Harvard Medical School. Subsequently they carried out research for Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Brandon Westover
(Co-Founder)Received their MD from Washington University School of Medicine, then took up a Neurology residency at Harvard Medical School. Alongside their work at Beacon Biosignals, Brandon is also an HST Faculty member at MIT and a Neurologist/Medical AI Researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Syd Cash
(Co-Founder)Syd is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, who also leads the Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery at MGH.
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