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RF Electrical Engineer
PromaxoUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Apr 2025
About the role
Are you an RF engineer who enjoys tackling hard problems? Are you a maker who gets projects working? Promaxo, a diverse, passionate, and growing team is seeking a motivated professional to fill our RF engineering position. You will significantly contribute to building next-generation point-of-care MRI systems with sophisticated mechanical, electrical, and software components.
Promaxo was founded in 2016 by a team of entrepreneurs and healthcare innovators to develop a minimally invasive and patient-centric platform incorporating outpatient-based MRI and interventional robotic technologies. Based in Oakland, California, and backed by over 230 patents, the Company’s mission is to improve lives through state-of-the-art medical imaging, robotics, and AI capabilities. With an FDA cleared compact and adaptable MRI platform, Promaxo is redefining the standard of care by improving the quality and speed of patient diagnosis and interventions. With prostate cancer management as its beachhead market. The Company is also expanding into international markets with EU as the next geography with a subsidiary based in Brussels, Belgium.
By bringing MRI technology to in-office and the outpatient surgery center market, Promaxo has the potential to reach and serve every patient who needs care. Our goal is to help physicians manage the entire patient care continuum, from screening to diagnosis and treatment.
To achieve our organizational growth objectives we are looking for individuals to join our growing team in a workplace that values diversity in thought, where employees’ and the company’s goals are inseparable.
Responsibilities
- Design and build new RF magnetic field sensor coils for the MRI applications
- Create schematics and layout PCBAs using Altium Designer software or equivalent
- Bring up and test your PCBAs in the lab
- Work with fab and assembly suppliers to get boards fabricated and assembled
- Optimize your design by doing circuit analysis and choosing parts
- Troubleshoot and resolve hardware issues in the factory and from the field
- Work with mechanical engineers & electrical engineers to create industry-leading medical devices
- Stay abreast with existing and emerging technologies, best practices and lessons learned, skill set requirements, and implementation options for our technology.
- Understand the schedule, cost, and performance implications of hardware engineering cycles.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related field with preference given with at least 2 years of relevant R&D lab experience or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
- Knowledge and experience using standard electrical and RF test tools including network analyzer, oscilloscopes, function generators, bench power suppliers, digital multimeters
- Knowledge of (Build Experience is a bonus) RF circuits/sensors such as matching networks, phase shifters, RF/MW antennae or MRI RF Coils
- Knowledge of RF low noise signal amplifiers and RF power amplifiers
- Understanding of RF electromagnetic fields and antennae
- Effective technical communicator
- Ability to manage action items and deliver according to a schedule
- Fundamentals in math & sciences: mechanics, electronics, basic electromagnetic theory, etc.
- Creative and resourceful.
Promaxo was founded in 2016 by a team of entrepreneurs and healthcare innovators to develop a minimally invasive and patient-centric platform incorporating outpatient-based MRI and interventional robotic technologies. Based in Oakland, California, and backed by over 230 patents, the Company’s mission is to improve lives through state-of-the-art medical imaging, robotics, and AI capabilities. With an FDA cleared compact and adaptable MRI platform, Promaxo is redefining the standard of care by improving the quality and speed of patient diagnosis and interventions. With prostate cancer management as its beachhead market. The Company is also expanding into international markets with EU as the next geography with a subsidiary based in Brussels, Belgium.
By bringing MRI technology to in-office and the outpatient surgery center market, Promaxo has the potential to reach and serve every patient who needs care. Our goal is to help physicians manage the entire patient care continuum, from screening to diagnosis and treatment.
To achieve our organizational growth objectives we are looking for individuals to join our growing team in a workplace that values diversity in thought, where employees’ and the company’s goals are inseparable.
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