Career Opportunities

DEKA is filled with people who are driven to be among the very best in their respective fields. Consequently, the atmosphere is rewarding and incredibly intense. As a DEKA employee, you will have the opportunity to work on projects that have a positive, enduring impact on millions of people worldwide.

DEKA is located in the historic millyard district of Manchester, NH a vibrant, picturesque New England city within an hour drive of Boston, the White Mountains and the seacoast.

Our current openings are listed below. We also welcome resumes from self-motivated, goal-oriented, technical engineers and professionals who have experience working in or leading teams of like individuals. So, please feel free to submit your resume with a cover letter, even if you are not sure you are a fit for any of the listings below, to jobs@dekaresearch.com.

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Electrical Engineer-Lead

Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead day to day activities for 2-4 Electrical engineers
• Coordinate, schedule, and execute Electrical Engineering project deliverables
• Work with Systems and Mechanical engineers to establish program schedule, cost and capability
• R&D electronics design for new products and new product concepts
• Specification and detailed design documentation
• Design failure analysisDesign verification including test fixture design
• Support R&D to manufacturing transition, and EE support of current products

Minimum Requirements:

• Ten years as a product development Electrical Engineer
• Five years leading electrical engineering teamFamiliarity with engineering development process, tools, and communication
• Task-oriented detailed planner mindset
• BSEE
• Experience designing analog circuits (signal and low-power)Good general working knowledge of digital electronics
• Familiarity with electrical CAD tools (schematic and layout)Excellent command of electrical engineering first principles
• Highly motivated self-starter who needs minimal direction but works well with multi-disciplinary teams
• Eager to continually expand knowledge of EE concepts and general engineering
• Ability to apply imagination and electrical engineering knowledge to solve problems

Desirable

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Quality Assurance Test Engineer

We have an immediate opening for a Quality Assurance System Test Engineer to work in a dynamic Medical Device Research and Development environment. This is a high visibility role with a significant direct impact on the success of the project.

Activities will include:

• Contributing to device Risk Assessment, Hazard Analysis, and FTA’s
• Determining test coverage for revisions to design
• Writing test plans, test procedures, and other activities involving durability and reliability assessments.
• Participating and contributing towards Regulatory and Agency submissions. 
• Communicating and resolving technical as well as administrative issues with our customers Preparing estimates on schedule, budgets and monitoring progress against the Projects deliverables.
• Authoring Quality Plans, Validation Tests Summaries, and other required QA documents.

Qualifications:

• Candidate must have had a minimum of 5 years work experience in a research and development environment
• BS degree in a technical field
• Experience in Medical devices, knowledge of FDA’s Quality System Regulations (QSR’s), ISO 13485 and other medical device industry experience a plus.

Please send resume to: jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject “QA ENG”

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Project Regulatory Affairs Manager

We have an immediate opening for a project regulatory affairs manager to take the lead regulatory role on a high visibility, fast-moving project.

The successful candidate will have considerable involvement with setting up clinical trial(s), 510(k) testing, working with outside consultants, preparing regulatory submissions, directing various project team members in their efforts to comply with the regulatory strategy, and will make key decisions in the regulatory process to obtain marketing clearance for a class II medical device. This individual will have all necessary resources made available to him or her to achieve the regulatory goals.

Applicants should have a minimum of 5 years’ regulatory experience with class II and/or class III devices, filing 510(k)s and/or PMAs, hands-on knowledge pertaining to the conduct of clinical trials, and applications for IDEs.  Applicants should possess a minimum of a BS in a technically related field or be able to demonstrate competence through a solid history of performance.  

Please send resume to: jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject “RL-REG”

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Engineering Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional engineering team through the complete development cycle to invent, design, develop, and release to manufacturing medical devices, primarily medical therapeutic or diagnostic systems
• Translate high-level project input into a comprehensive set of requirements working with both internal and external project stakeholders
• Drive the technology development to ensure there is a solid, protectable technology base to do the job
• Layout comprehensive project plan that includes compliance with FDA guidelines and project clinical goals; continue to monitor and re-plan as necessary
• Drive the day to day activity to get the job done; solving problems, managing resource conflicts, breaking down barriers, upholding high performance standards, meeting commitments

Desired Characteristics

• High energy
• Self motivated & passionate
• Very technically competent
• Able to challenge and make decisions

Qualifications

• Engineering degree with at least 10 years of work experience in a product development environment
• Experience leading a multi-disciplinary team
• Direct experience leading a product development team
  

Please send resume to: jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject “PM”

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Description

The Senior Mechanical Engineer will report to the project manager in the development of new medical products.  Full responsibility for the mechanical adequacy of assigned design elements rests with the Senior Mechanical Engineer.

• Technical review and approval for mechanical component and assembly designs, analysis, and testing.
• Significant design and engineering responsibilities, including component and assembly designs and design evaluation.
• Generation of requirements, detailed design documentation and test plans.
• Manage interfaces between mechanical and electrical components.
• Drive design goals such as product cost, size, weight, durability, manufacturability, and serviceability among others.
• Support the development of project plans by estimating the effort required to complete design tasks.
• Interact with suppliers to solve technical concerns.
• Provide technical evaluation of supplier capabilities.
• Perform failure analysis on test and production assemblies to determine root cause of failure.

Requirements

• MS/BS in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on device design.
• 7-15 years experience in product and/or machine design
• Proficiency with solid modeling using AutoDesk Inventor and/or SolidWorks
• Knowledge of state-of-the-art machining and rapid prototyping techniques
• Experience in designing for a variety of production manufacturing processes, including plastics forming and joining
• Experience in a manufacturing setting is desired
• Experience in medical products is desired
• Knowledge of experimentation methods and statistical techniques also a plus

Please send resume to: jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject “ME”

Manufacturing Transition Engineer

Responsibilities

The Manufacturing Transition Engineer works with the product development team to ensure that the hand-off to production occurs as smoothly as possible in a fast-paced environment.  The position provides exposure to a wide variety of exciting, industry-changing products.  The responsibilities of the job include:

• Working with product development engineers evaluate and improve component Design for Manufacturability and Design for Assembly.
• Review and approve documentation for manufacturing concerns.
• Provide manufacturing support for development engineering prototype builds, including developing assembly instructions, fixtures, line layout, and tool requirements.
• Work with design teams to generate and manage product bill of materials.
• Manage build timing to meet aggressive project schedules.
• Provide feedback to design teams.
• Interface with component manufacturers and product integrators to evaluate new component designs and suggest improvements to reduce cost, reduce delivery time, and improve quality.
• Support and ensure a smooth transition from low volume prototype production ramping up to full production.
• Provide technical evaluation of supplier capabilities.

• Candidates for this position will ideally have the following credentials:
• BS in Engineering with at least 3 years experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of common systems and tools used to improve manufacturing efficiency (e.g. 6-Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, DFx, etc.)
• Experience in GMP for FDA-approved medical devices.
• Experience in manufacturing line planning and design.
• Manufacturing fixture design experience.
• Proficiency in training assemblers on manufacturing processes.
• Knowledge of various component manufacturing processes (Injection Molding, Sheet Metal/Stamping, Casting, Forging, Machining, etc.) is desired.
• Knowledge of various assembly technologies (Electronics Assembly, Welding, Fastening, Automation, etc) also desired.
• Experience in design transfer is a plus.

Please send resumes to jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject line MF ENG.

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Quality Assurance System Test Manager

We have an immediate opening for a Quality Assurance System Test Manager to work in a dynamic Medical Device Research and Development environment. This is a high visibility role with a significant direct impact on the success of the project.

Responsibilities

• Leading other Quality Assurance Test Engineers and Test Technicians on new development projects insuring proper test coverage and validations of new designs
• Contributing to device Risk Assessments, Hazard Analysis, FTA’s
• Determining regression test coverage for revisions to design, environmental test coverage and other activities involving durability and reliability assessments
• Participating and contributing towards Regulatory and Agency submissions
• Communicating and resolving technical as well as administrative issues with the customer is expected
• Preparing estimates on schedule, budgets and monitoring progress against the Projects deliverables.

This position is the primary author of Quality Test Plans, Test Procedures, Validation Tests Summaries, and other required QA and Regulatory documents.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years work experience in an R & D environment and proven success with product testing
• Minimum of a BS degree in a technically related field
• Experience in Medical devices, knowledge of FDA’s Quality System Regulations (QSR’s), ISO 13485 and other medical device industry experience is desired.

  Please send resumes to jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject line QA TEST MGR.

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Control System Engineer

Responsibilities

Engineer will have a broad range of responsibilities developing control system for new and medical and non-medical devices. Work may include developing algorithms, writing embedded code, specifying sensors and investigating plant dynamics. Work is very hands-on and controls engineers frequently act as “test pilots” when developing new controllers.

Desired Qualifications

Must have experience in the development of electromechanical control systems.

Knowledge of Matlab/C++ is required.

Education

MS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with emphasis on control system development, or a BSME or BSEE and equivalent work experience.

Please send resume to: jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject “Controls”

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Senior Embedded Software Engineer-Lead

Position Duties

• Porting, developing and maintain control systems using C/C++, Nucleus EDGE Tools for ARM9 (9328MXL)
• Work with Real View Compilation Tools, ARM9 Assembly Language and Nucleus USB Stack
• Use Nucleus Plus RTOS architecture on ARM9 processors.
• Use Inter-processor communication, interrupt processing, bootstrap loading, system stack and context switching
• Developing and porting embedded systems software for multiple processor architectures
• Integrating device software with PC applications
• Development of medical devices ensuring proper implementation of FDA guidelines
• Finalizing functional and implementation details with clients
• Coordinating Quality Assurance activities with QA Department
• Device Driver development skills for Nucleus Plus
• Experience with Communication Protocol Stacks
• Technical writing skills for documentation, requirements and tests
• Travel is required to client facility
• Technical interface and sign-off authority with client.
• Technical interface, supervision and sign-off authority on requirements, system design, implementation and test.

Minimum Requirements

Masters in Computer Science and three years experience pre or post degree or a suitable combination of education, training and/or experience equivalent to a Master’s degree in Computer Science and 3 years experience. Experience must include Nucleus EDGE Tools for ARM9 (9328MXL).

Please send resume to: jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject “SW-EDGE”

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Embedded Software Engineer

This position involves real-time embedded software development for FDA-regulated medical devices. 

Responsibilities

• Develop real-time embedded software for FDA-regulated medical equipment.
• Develop and document software requirements and design.
• Design and implement systems performing real-time electro-mechanical control.
• Develop and execute testing to prove that the designs meet the requirements.

Required Experience

• 2-7 years of C/C++ development
• BSEE/CS or equivalent
• Familiarity with hardware-level interfaces (e.g. serial ports, A/D converters)

Preferred Experience

• Implementation for real-time embedded systems
• OOAD using UML or similar.
• Development under an RTOS (e.g. Windows CE, Nucleus, VxWorks, QNX, MicroC/OS-II)
• Microcontroller/DSP development (e.g. Microchip, 8051, TMS320)
• Interprocessor/chip Communications (e.g. RS232, I2C)
• User Interface implementation
• Motor Control
• Assembly coding
• Experience with FDA/FAA or similarly regulated systems

Electrical Engineer

• R&D electronics design for new products and new product concepts
• Specification and detailed design documentation
• Design failure analysis
• Design verification including test fixture design
• Support R&D to manufacturing transition, and EE support of current products

Minimum Requirements

• BSEE
• Experience designing analog circuits (signal and low-power)
• Good general working knowledge of digital electronics
• Familiarity with electrical CAD tools (schematic and layout)
• Excellent command of electrical engineering first principles
• Highly motivated self-starter who needs minimal direction but works well with multi-disciplinary teams
• Eager to continually expand knowledge of EE concepts and general engineering
• Ability to apply imagination and electrical engineering knowledge to solve problems

Desirable

• Printed Circuit layout experience
• Experience of at least one full (concept to production) product development cycle, preferably for a low-power, battery operated device
• Embedded system designing and programming experience
• Biomedical engineering education or experience working on medical devices

Please send resume to: jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject "DH"

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Systems Engineer

The Systems Engineer will report to the project manager and lead a team of engineers and designers in the development of novel new products.  Full responsibility for the technical content and integration of the various subsystems of the design rests with the Systems Engineer. 

Responsibilities

• Creation of the system architecture to ensure reliable system function.
• Writing system specifications and design descriptions.
• Defining critical interfaces between sub-systems.
• Manage sub-system interactions to ensure proper system function
• Interface with team members from all engineering disciplines to solve system level engineering challenges.
• Drive design goals within the entire project team.  Design goals may include product cost, size, weight, durability, manufacturability, and serviceability among others.
• Support the development of project plans by estimating the effort required to complete design tasks.
• Perform system hazards analysis and adjust system architecture to mitigate hazards.
• Coordinate formal and informal testing to confirm design functionality. 
• Perform failure analysis on test and production assemblies to determine root cause of failure.

Qualifications

• MS/BS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• 10 years experience in electro-mechanical machine and/or product design. 
• Demonstrated ability in developing software architecture.
• Practical knowledge of mechanical systems and electronics
• Knowledge of experimentation methods and statistical techniques
• Knowledge of electronics manufacturing and/or mechanical component manufacturing processes a plus.

Please send resume to: jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject "SE"