Bioelectronics Engineer

PrivateFinancePartners GmbH; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cultivated meat company in Cambridge seeks a Bioelectronics Engineer to develop and validate bioelectronic devices. The role involves designing sensors for cell monitoring, data analysis, and coordination of engineering projects. The ideal candidate has a relevant degree and hands-on experience in bioelectronics, along with a commitment to sustainability in food production. Join us to make a significant impact in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Stock options

Private health insurance

Career progression opportunities

Impact in sustainable food innovation

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in designing bioelectronic devices.
• Experience with data analysis from bioelectronic sensors.
• Cell culture proficiency, especially with mammalian cells.

Responsibilities

• Design and fabricate bioelectronic devices for cell monitoring.
• Analyze bioelectronic data and coordinate engineering projects.
• Conduct AI-driven data analysis.

Skills

Designing bioelectronic sensors

Data analysis

Cell culture

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

PhD or work experience in relevant field

Tools

3D CAD

Bioreactors

Job description

Cellcraft® is a B2B cultivated meat company based in Cambridge tackling global food security and sustainability challenges. Our AI-driven bioelectronic technology powers the Cellcraft® Farm: an end-to-end, scalable Cultivated Meat (CM) Manufacturing Platform to empower food producers to make their own delectable, sustainable cultivated meats locally. Cellcraft is the world’s first cultivated meat company with a focus on software and analytics. We believe the future of meat must be both sustainable and irresistible.

We are a rapidly growing start-up looking for Bioelectronics Engineer with experience in developing and validating devices/sensors for monitoring cells to join our core team! You will be flexible and able to handle rapidly changing priorities on a range of cross-functional projects. You are an independent problem solver who enjoys working in fast-paced environments. As a senior scientist and early team member, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our technology and the company's direction.

Cellcraft is a fast-paced environment. You must be a problem solver capable of applying initiative who enjoys seeing their ideas come to fruition.

Tasks

Responsibilities:

• Designing, fabricating, validating, and using bioelectronic devices/sensors for monitoring cells.
• Bioelectronic and Impedance data analysis and processing
• The use of AI for data analysis, processing and correlation
• Planning, efficient execution, comprehensive analysis, and presentation of experimental data.
• Coordination of engineering projects.

Requirements

Essential Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject such as Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, or Bioengineering.
• Hands‑on experience in designing, fabricating, validating and using bioelectronic devices for cell monitoring. This includes electrode and circuit design and testing (PCB design and soldering experience highly desirable)
• Analysis of data from bioelectronic sensors/devices, including Equivalent Circuit Modelling.
• PhD or at least three years of work experience in addition to a bachelor's or master's degree.
• Cell culture, ideally adherent and suspension mammalian cells.

Desirable Skills

• AI development
• Use of Bioreactors
• Fabrication techniques such as prototyping, lithography, 3D CAD, moulding, freeze‑drying, 3D printing, metal works (e.g., soldering), etc.
• Computational modeling of results from bioelectronic devices/sensors to correlate those results with biological phenomenon as well as other computational modeling in general, such as Computational Fluid Dynamics.
• Development and use of bioreactors (micro or large) integrated with bioelectronic sensors.
• Sourcing and procurement of materials and equipment for bioelectronic devices and sensors.
• Senior applicants with over 5‑10 years of experience are welcome and will have the opportunity to lead a small team as the 'Head of Bioelectronics'.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and stock options
• Private health Insurance
• Potential for excellent career progression
• Exposure to an up‑and‑coming disruptive and innovative market
• Opportunity to be at the forefront of the cultivated meat industry and make a tangible impact on global sustainability

Join Cellcraft as a Bioprocess Engineer and revolutionize cultured meat innovation in Cambridge. Be part of a dynamic team at the forefront of biotechnology research, backed by leading VCs.

Cellcraft is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are committed to creating inclusive teams and providing a work environment that allows all to be themselves.

Our Values

🥩 COMPASSIONATE DRIVE

We put people at the core of our push for change. Focusing on the needs of living beings and our planet, rather than indulging in the abstract. We embody this without compromise, every single day.

👩🔬 INVENTIVE VISION

We foster a highly innovative environment, accelerating creativity and novel ideas which deliver inventive and refreshing solutions for good. We are going against the grain: advocating visionary ideas which disrupt the status quo. We endorse revolutionary thinking and doing.

🔬 SCIENTIFIC RIGOUR

Science is the pursuit of the uncompromising truth, and so this is where we have set the bar in all aspects. At our company, scientific rigour is not just a value - it is a superpower. Our attention to details and meticulous testing is the secret sauce that make our technologies so mouth‑wateringly good.

🧬 POLYMATH SPIRIT

Our work demands myriad skills and expertise, enabling us to deliver impact to our partners holistically, across their complex value chains. We value the insights arising from different backgrounds, and our current team comprises members from many different nations with expertise across multiple disciplines - from bioelectronics to fluid dynamics.