Senior Optical Engineer | Spectroscopy | Photonics | Health

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>Hello! 👋🏽</p><p>We're looking for an awesome <strong> Senior Optical Engineer | Spectroscopy | Photonics | Health</strong> to join our team on our journey to revolutionize personalized medicine 📈 </p><p><strong>About your Role 📰   /    What will you be doing? 👀</strong></p><ul><li>Help us to develop our technology by combining an advanced photonics platform, data science, and ML algorithms to extract biological fingerprints from optical signals.</li><li>Design, fabricate, implement and validate optical sensing approaches to further enhance our photonics platform technology</li><li>Provide insights towards improving our platform and interacting with the rest of the company teams to that end.</li><li>Assist in scientific communication strategies through peer-reviewed research, review articles and presentations at national and international conferences.</li><li>Work with our Product team to assist in validating functional requirements and value generation for our customers.</li><li>Work with our Regulatory affairs team to ensure our product hits the highest quality standards.</li></ul><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>Requirements ✔️</strong></p><ul><li>Be passionate about the application of photonics in healthcare</li><li>Proven ability in developing photonics devices, protocols and data acquisition in an experimental setting.</li><li>Confident in the design and implementation of electronic circuits for control and measurements</li><li>Ideally have experience working with biological samples in liquid form for optical measurements</li><li>Be a problem solver, proactive thinker, and a team player that enjoys facing challenges.</li><li>Able to thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment that may require adapting quickly to new directions</li><li>Be fluent in English with strong writing and communication skills.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p>Advanced degree in biophotonics, optics, biomedical engineering, physics, or a related<br/> discipline with demonstrated relevant experience in photonics engineering in either<br/> academic and/or industry.</p><h3>Additional Information</h3><p><strong>iLoF in a nutshell </strong><strong>💡</strong></p><p>As personalized medicine becomes the norm, scientists, patients, and healthcare systems worldwide face massive barriers in providing the right treatment to the right patient. </p><p>Recognized by CB Insights and Financial Times as one of the most promising Digital Health companies in the world, iLoF is building an AI-powered platform capable of transforming precision medicine. </p><p>Our goal is to become the platform that democratizes access to personalized medicine for millions of people living with complex diseases around the globe. </p><p>Thanks to our proprietary optical fingerprint library of disease biomarkers and biological profiles we can offer personalized patient screening and stratification in a faster and more affordable way, saving up to 40% of the cost and 70% of the time while enabling a more human patient experience. </p><p>Supported by leading institutions like Microsoft Ventures, Mayfield, and the Oxford University, iLoF is currently focusing on validating its platform technology in one of the biggest challenges of our times: Alzheimer's, while maintaining ongoing verticals on Digestive Cancer, Stroke, and Infectious diseases.</p><p><strong>Our Team</strong><strong>🧑🏻‍💻</strong></p><p>We are a mix of scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors based in Oxford and Porto, with a passion for healthcare! </p><p>Recognized by CB Insights as one of the most promising Digital Health companies in the world and by the Financial Times as a Transformational Business in Healthcare, iLoF has been regularly featured in leading outlets like Tech Crunch, Wired, and Sifted and listed as a rising star in AI-Driven Drug Discovery, Health Screening &amp; Data Analytics.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Stuff you want to know: </strong></p><p><strong>What we value </strong></p><ul><li>A <strong>Be Kind </strong>attitude is the main guideline within iLoF</li><li>A hand in the hammer and another free to support your co-workers as a true <strong>team player</strong></li><li>An honest and egoless attitude towards discussions and critics <strong>working in good faith</strong></li><li>The braveness to <strong>speak your heart</strong> in any situation</li><li>Through words or actions be always sure to <strong>make a difference</strong> at any moment!</li><li>Be proud to drive your responsibilities to success and help others do the same, embracing <strong>ownership</strong>!</li></ul><p><strong>Perks </strong><strong>😉</strong></p><ul><li>An exciting future with a deep-tech company selected by Financial Times and CB Insights as one of the most transformative companies in the world 🚀</li><li>Annual performance bonus</li><li>Stock Options 💰</li><li>A high paced, flexible environment: adaptable working hours, strong remote work culture 🏡</li><li>A stimu