Career Opportunities

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.

 

Current Opportunities

 

Junior Industrial Designer

Requirements:

  • 0-2 years experience as an industrial designer within a design consultancy or as part of an in-house design team
  • A Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design
  • Excellent sketching skills. This is a crucial skill for a designer at DEKA and we are looking for someone with the ability to communicate on paper.
  • Strong from development skills
  • Strong story-boarding skills
  • Model making capabilities
  • A self-starter who can identify and take responsibility for project level opportunities
  • An interest and aptitude for developing medical devices
  • Able to collaborate within a cross-functional project team environment
  • Able to work independently as well as with other designers
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Experienced with the Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
  • Capable with a CAD package, knowledge of ProEngineer or Autodesk Inventor is a plus

Responsibilities:

  • Design development of products, sub-systems, or components focusing on the intended user experience, form language development and usability
    • Sketch development of concepts
    • CAD documentation of concepts
    • Storyboard development for proposed user experiences
    • Prototype development
  • Supporting ethnographic research efforts
  • Communicating concepts to project teams and project management through presentations, prototype demonstrations and simulations
  • Prioritizing and communicating personal workload to the Design Team Leader and Project Management
  • Early phase concept visualization to help communicate with development partners
  • Occasional graphic design support for projects

To apply, please send a digital portfolio (smaller than 7 megabytes) to jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject line "Junior Industrial Designer", and please put your name in the title of any attachments you send.

Service Engineer

Requirements:

  • Mechanical Engineering Degree (or similar) from a 4 year institution
  • Minimum 4 years experience technical field
  • Ability to diagnose problems and see the solutions through to completion
  • Hands-on experience with common tools and software
  • Ability to communicate clearly verbally and in writing
  • Software experience must include the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
  • Experience using Autodesk Inventor (or similar CAD software) required
  • Experience in Root Cause Analysis, advanced diagnostics and LabView programming and Data Acquisition also desired
  • 50% Travel required

Responsibilities:

  • Help maintain a fleet of prototype medical devices and perform service calls as necessary
  • Work with several departments within the project to solve problems and find solutions
  • Relay information between key individuals within the servicing process
  • Documentation of service performed and root cause analysis
  • Assist Engineering as necessary
  • Assist Manufacturing as necessary

Please send resumes to jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject line "Service Engineer".

Model Maker

Requirements:

  • Minimum of 4-6 years of experience as a model maker
  • Attention to detail in surface quality and finish that is documented in a portfolio of well executed prototypes
  • Experienced painter:  comfortable using and maintaining HVLP guns.  Being able to use them to apply high quality surfaces of colors, clear coats, and textures. 
  • Self motivated and self directed
  • Enjoys solving problems and are naturally curious about new technologies
  • Familiar and capable with typical  shop tools
  • Some experience in silicone molding and urethane casting 
  • Experience with Pro-E, Solidworks or Autodesk Inventor are serious plusses but are not required
  • CNC experience is a plus but also is not required

Responsibilities:

  • Planning along with the development team when prototyping can be used on a project as well as how to prototype specific concepts
  • This candidate will be expected to challenge and grow their skill set as part of the Design Team’s efforts to find new ways to expand DEKA’s prototyping capabilities
  • Creating appearance models using a variety of fabrication methods including but not limited to: machining, objet printing, sls printing, foam carving
  • Sanding and painting printed parts
  • Sanding and polishing plastic and metal parts
  • Creating silicone molds, color matching  and casting urethane parts, cycling molds
  • CAD surfacing and CAD model development (depending on CAD capabilities) of design concepts
  • CAD database development of prototype molds so they can be machined
  • Creating test fixtures in metal, wood and plastic
  • Running parts on a laser cutter

To apply, please send a digital portfolio (smaller than 7 megabytes) to jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject line "Model Maker", and please put your name in the title of any attachments you send.

Usability Engineer

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology or Cognitive Science. An MS or MA is preferred but not required
  • 6 to 10 years of experience in usability testing, risk analysis or medical product development.
  • Experience planning and conducting usability testing. Experience moderating usability testing is preferred.
  • Strong written, verbal and visual communication skills
  • A working knowledge of the following standards:
    • IEC 62366: 2007
    • AAMI HE75
    • ISO 14973
    • IEC 60601-1-6 (second and third editions)
    • IEC 60601-1-11 (not required but preferred)

Responsibilities:

  • Acting as the usability champion within DEKA, advocating the expansion of usability practices within DEKA’s development process
  • Advising project teams on how to include usability analyses and usability testing methods within projects based on the specific nature of the devices being developed and any applicable regulatory requirements
  • Generating required FDA or TUV documentation for regulatory submissions
  • Acting as a liaison between DEKA Research and Development and outside usability consultants
  • Plan and conduct usability testing for products at different stages during product development
  • Analyze results for usability testing and provide recommendations for improvements to both hardware and interfaces based
  • Running the Use Error portion of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis reviews
  • Provide heuristic feedback on products at various stages of development
  • Setting up and conducting early phase research to help inform project teams about use context (environment, primary actors, use cases)
  • Contribute to persona definition and story boarding exercises as a means of communicating the desired UX or the expected use context
  • Help to define, prioritize and redefine usability requirements throughout the development process

Please send resume with a cover letter detailing your capabilities to jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject line "Usability Engineer".

 

QA Test Engineer

Requirements:

  • BS degree in a technical field
  • Physics, Electrical, Mechanical, and/or Biomedical Engineering background preferred
  • Prior experience in a research and development environment is a plus.
  • Experience in medical devices, knowledge of FDA’s Quality System Regulations (QSR’s) and/or ISO 13485, and other medical device industry experience a plus.
  • Please include relevant experience in internship positions
  • If you have less than 2 years related experience please include your GPA

Responsibilities:

  • Writing test plans, test procedures, and other activities involving performance, durability, and reliability assessments
  • Determining test coverage for revisions to design
  • Creating and evaluating test fixtures needed for product design verification
  • Contributing to design failure investigations that may impact Risk Assessment, Hazard Analysis, and FTA’s
  • Participating and contributing towards Regulatory and Agency submissions
  • Authoring Quality Plans, Validation Tests Summaries, and other required QA documents

Please send resumes to jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject line "QA Test Engineer".

Software Engineer -- Android Developer

Required Experience:

  • BSCS or BSEE, with a strong computer science foundation
  • Experience with Android mobile platform and its SDK/NDK
  • Expert in using Eclipse SDE, ADB shell, deployment and generation of APKs on handsets and emulators
  • Excellent Java coding & debugging skills
  • Demonstrable experience creating innovative UIs, or working closely with a UI or User Experience team
  • Knowledge, skills and experience in development practices such as version control, bug tracking, reviews, design patterns, UML, risk analysis and model-driven design.

Desired Experience:

  • Android platform and application security vulnerability experience
  • Android C NDK coding experience
  • Linux OS use, development and internals understanding
  • Familiarity with relational database systems including SQLite and MySQL
  • Android Open Source Project (AOSP) experience
  • Development on Android 2.2+
  • Experience with medical devices

Please send resumes to jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject line "SW-Android".

 

System Engineer

Description

We are seeking a dynamic, results driven and inventive multi-disciplinary technical leader for a medical device product development program.

Job responsibilities include:

  • Overall system architecture design, system specifications and upper-level design descriptions
  • System level test strategy, test specifications and protocols
  • Defining critical interfaces between subsystems and leading subsystem team leads in the integration of sophisticated software driven electro-mechanical devices to ensure proper system function
  • Hazards analysis, failure modes analysis and mitigation design
  • Supporting program management to drive design goals within the entire project team; design goals may include product cost, size, weight, durability, manufacturability, and serviceability among others
  • Supporting the development of project plans by estimating the effort required to complete design tasks
  • Providing guidance to manufacturing process development including process development, PFMEA review, and manufacturing test criteria

Requirements:

  • MS/BS in Engineering with 5 years experience in electro-mechanical machine and/or product design
  • Experience in multi-disciplinary environments including embedded software, complex mechanical systems and electronics
  • Demonstrated history of inventive solutions to technical problems
  • Demonstrated technical leadership skills
  • Demonstrated experience with product development, preferably in the medical device market
  • Demonstrated experience with product testing, experimental methods and statistical techniques
  • Knowledge of manufacturing processes a plus
  • Knowledge of thermodynamics a plus
  • Prior experience with disposable medical products and sterile fluid systems a plus

Please send resumes to jobs@dekaresearch.com, subject line "System Engineer".

     


DEKA is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or veteran status. DEKA participates in E-Verify. DEKA will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization. For more information about E-Verify, please go to www.dhs.gov.

 

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