Industrialization Engineer

Empatica

Empatica is a full-stack digital healthcare company and a pioneer in digital biomarker development and continuous patient monitoring driven by AI. Our platform consists of medical-grade smartwatches, software, and physiological and behavioral digital biomarkers. Together they enable the continuous remote monitoring of human health across a range of conditions, through clinical-quality digital measurements.

If you are looking to join a fast-paced growth environment and do meaningful work that can make a true impact in the world, then keep reading. 

About the role

“Building hardware is tough” is a sentence you are probably familiar with if you know what we are talking about. Creating medical-grade wearable devices is so complex that only a few companies have attempted it, and an even smaller percentage of them have succeeded; Empatica is proudly among the latter ones. If you are up to face such a challenge, Empatica is the right place for you!

Empatica is looking for a passionate and talented Industrialization Engineer ready to take on the challenge of ensuring that every device we ship meets the highest standards of quality. In this role, you’ll develop and maintain test stations to validate our hardware throughout both development and mass production. As the final gate between the production line and our customers, your work will have a direct impact on fulfilling Empatica’s mission: to save lives through technology.

You’ll be part of a multidisciplinary team of engineers - including mechanical, electronics, and embedded software experts - and get hands-on experience with the entire technology stack behind our products.

What you’ll do:

• Design and build test fixtures to validate our products during development phases.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain test stations and software for production lines.
• Implement computer vision algorithms to enhance test station capabilities.
• Create and maintain tools for production data analysis and performance monitoring.
• Improve production yield through root cause analysis of manufacturing failures.
• Collaborate with mechanical, electronics, and firmware engineers to continuously improve product design and manufacturing processes.

Some important details:

• Empatica operates in an international environment with offices in Europe, the US, and Korea. All work is conducted in English.

• We are operating a hybrid model where our employees choose whether to work from home or come to the office, however, please note that this position is not fully remote, and your in-office presence will be required on certain occasions.

Requirements

You are the ideal person for this job if you:

• Have a BS/MS in Engineering Discipline, preferably Mechatronics;
• Have a minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a similar role;
• Have excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly and concisely explain ideas at all levels of the company;
• Have strong Python skills;
• Have good 3D cad skills;
• Have some basic knowledge of electronics;
• Have a data-driven bent nature with a get-it-done MO;
• Are available to travel up to 20% to our headquarters in Boston/Seoul, with some irregular work hours to support overseas partners and co-workers;
• Are flexible to adapt to an extremely dynamic and quickly changing work environment.

Life at Empatica

You will join a fast-growing, international, and diverse team of 110+ talented people who care passionately about what we do and the difference we are making in the world. You’ll get the opportunity to work directly with colleagues across all levels of the organization, no matter their seniority, and learn from the people that built the business and our products.

If you jump on board, we can guarantee it won't be an easy ride, but it will be one of the most rewarding experiences in your career, one that will allow you to learn a lot, have true ownership of your work, and test your whole skillset on multiple projects which are helping thousands of people worldwide.

Read our blog post and find out some reasons why we love working at Empatica.

Inclusion & Diversity

At Empatica we embrace diversity and inclusion. We have colleagues from 28 different countries, while more than 50% of our team is women (double the tech average!) We believe this makes Empatica a more exciting and stimulating place to work, and brings different points of view to the table while fostering a spirit of communication, collaboration, and care, where everyone’s opinion and thoughts matter.

Benefits

• 🧠 Multiple opportunities to be challenged and step up your career in a fast-growth company in one of the hottest areas of tech
• 💰 Competitive salary
• 📈 Employee stock options - we want everyone who joins us to own part of the company and our success
• 🏖️ We have offices in Milan City Center and Downtown Boston. And every summer, we hold an amazing beach retreat in Sardinia, Italy
• 🏥 Health Insurance
• 🏋️‍♀️ Gympass membership with access to gyms, online classes, personal training sessions, and nutrition plans
• 😌 Membership for mental health and wellness platforms
• 🥗 Free healthy lunch every day
• 🤓 Free Kindle and books
• 🕰️ Flexible working hours
• 🧑‍🎓 Personal learning and development budget
• 🍪 Free cookies, if you deserve them
• 👀 Much more…