Staff Mechanical Engineer, Precision Neuroscience
Surgical Hardware
$175-195k
More information about location
Office located in Manhattan, New York
Building powerful, minimally invasive brain implants
Open for applications
Building powerful, minimally invasive brain implants
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$175-195k
More information about location
Office located in Manhattan, New York
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide breakthrough treatments for the one billion patients worldwide suffering from neurological illnesses.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering (ME), Biomedical Engineering (BME) or similar
- 7+ years of industry experience in mechanical engineering roles, preferably in the medical device industry
- Experience designing and completing hands-on engineering of commercial precision instruments, motion systems and actuators, electromechanical systems, or automation systems
- Hands-on experience with hardware integrated systems involving sensors, imaging systems and communications
- Excellent organizational and communication skills; able to collaborate with neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and electrical, software, materials, and bio engineers
- Expert in CAD (we use SolidWorks) and finite element analysis FEA
- Track record of working towards accelerated timelines
- You should be comfortable with creative problem solving, collaborating, and taking charge of projects from concept to production
What the job involves
- Reporting To: Adam Poole
- We are seeking a Staff Mechanical Engineer to join our Surgery Hardware Team to lead essential design projects for maximizing the reliability and safety of our BCI hardware as well as our novel minimally invasive delivery method
- Lead the design and development of trajectory planning instruments and high precision motion systems for surgical deployment of our micro electrode array onto the cortical surface
- Integrate our surgical hardware with existing commercial navigation systems and patient planning interfaces (eg ROSA, StealthStation) such that it maximizes endpoint accuracy, reliability, and safety
- Help to refine our existing surgical fixtures and tools to ensure they are commercially manufacturable
- Complete risk assessments and mitigation plans to maximize the safety and reliability of surgical tooling
- Complete hands-on assembly, integration and testing tasks while ensuring rigorous quality control is being enforced
- Collaborate with the rest of our team to publish and present our work
- Create and update end-user technical documentation, product specifications and vendor procedures to ensure we are compliant with relevant regulations
Our take
Precision Neuroscience is finding new, practical ways of improving the lives of those who are suffering from neurological conditions.
The Layer 7 Cortical Interface is an implant that’s 1/5th the thickness of a human hair and can be fitted onto the human brain without damaging it. Through minimally invasive micro-slit surgery, the brain implant can process data and aims to move brain-computer interfaces (BCI) technology from small-scale research into a new era of worldwide usage.
The long-term goal of the Layer 7 Cortical Interface is to allow customers to interact with people and the world via digital means. Whilst the market is blooming with new companies exploring the possibilities of BCI technology, Precision has an advantage in that its solution requires minimal surgery and is reversible, meaning that it has wider implications than just neurological disorders.
Work is ongoing but with substantial funding behind it, Precision is using its investment to ramp up product development and FDA regulatory review as well as expanding its team.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2024
$102m
SERIES C
Nov 2024
$93m
LATE VC
Total funding: $249m
Company values
- We believe that the best technology puts people first. While brain–computer interface technology has exciting implications for the future of computing, everything we do at Precision is geared towards creating tangible, near-term benefits for our users: people suffering from neurological disorders.
Company HQ
Kips Bay, New York, NY
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Leadership
Michael Mager
(CEO & Co-Founder)Currently Co-Chairman at Assembly Software and Partner at Ridge Road Partners, Board Member at Supply Finance.
Mark Hettick
(Vice President of Engineering - Microfabrication)Previously Process Engineer at Neuralink, Lead Safety Coordinator at Berkeley Labs and Research Assistant at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis.
Benjamin Rapoport
(Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder)Previously Scientific Director of the BioDesign Program at Mount Sinai Health Systems. Previously Neurosurgery Residency at Weill Cornell Medicine and Founding Member at Neuralink.
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