Systems Engineer

Epitel empowers clinicians, patients, and caregivers who live with or care for neurological disorders. We’re a venture-backed company funded by top medtech VCs, physicians, hospitals, and strategics. We employ proprietary EEG wearables and powerful AI to create a new platform for brain diagnostics. Our system cuts the time to diagnose brain disorders from hours to minutes and solves critical care access issues. We’re building toward a continuous neurology care platform that will create novel biomarkers for neurological disorders. If you’re interested in a high-impact role at a neurology pioneer, this is it!

Role Mission: Epitel is looking for an ambitious Systems Test Engineer to verify and validate capabilities of the existing and future products with exacting interface, performance and security requirements. You will apply a broad variety of engineering subject areas to integrate, maintain, and improve Epitel’s current and future products. This individual will support system hardware and software test design and execution including calibration, characterization, and engineering testing in coordination with the various technical teams.

We’re backed by NIH and highly specialized and respected health tech investors. If you want to build meaningful systems at a fast-growing company building life-saving products, this is the role for you. This role is based in Salt Lake City, UT.

Responsibilities:

Develop and drive the business verification and validation test plans and structure.

Develop and own test protocols, including creating protocols that trace to system and sub-system requirements and comply to applicable regulatory requirements.

Test the system and system interactions and provide a technically based analysis of all failures to provide actionable feedback to the hardware and software teams.

Support development of test methods and fixtures for system/subsystem integration (Including software), test, calibration, and transfer to manufacturing

Collaborate closely with software engineers to identify and migrate appropriate manual testing protocols to automated testing applications.

Support the identification and maintenance of system and sub-system requirements.

Collaborate closely with the Quality team to ensure verification and validation protocols align with quality and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications:

Problem solver with a strong background demonstrating strategic thinking and an ability to deliver on complex plans and strategies.

Ability to work in a regulated environment in compliance to ISO 13485 and 21 CRF 820

3 – 5 years of developing and executing hardware and software system test protocols

Bachelor’s or post-graduate degree in a STEM field

Detail oriented high energy self-starter that exercises sound judgment and delivers against both personal and company business goals and objectives.

Preferred Skills/Competencies:

Systems test experience - An in-depth working knowledge of system testing principles, ideally with Class II medical devices across both hardware and software

System test environment experience - Experienced defining, building, and operating an automated test environment (Python, Bamboo, Jenkins, etc.) that combines Software and Hardware testing.

Product Experience - Background with medical devices, wearable devices, Bluetooth /WiFi enabled devices, and cloud-based applications.

Jira/Confluence - Experienced and comfortable utilizing Jira/Confluence.

Start-up experience - Experience working at early-stage start-up or similar high-growth environment.

Excellent listener and communicator - we’re open communicators with our partners and ourselves. You should have experience engaging in cross-functional brainstorming sessions and communicating technically complex messages clearly and concisely. You understand the importance of truly listening to your users, team, and other stakeholders.

Entrepreneurial - we’re a small team. That requires everybody to take initiative and ownership for their role, manage multiple priorities, be resourceful amidst ambiguity, and flex between independent and collaborative work as necessary. You understand, appreciate, and enjoy the responsibility and accountability that comes with being assigned ownership of project deliverables and their success.

Efficient - speed and agility are some of our competitive advantages. We expect you to move fast with quality output.

Honest and trustworthy - we’re nothing without trust. Clinicians, patients, and caregivers must be able to trust Epitel as an organization and you as an individual.

Enthusiasm - we love what we do and so do our partners. We want you to as well. You are passionate about building solutions, not just tools, and lean into delighting hard-to-please use