Research Engineer (Electrical)

The Center for Ecogenomics in the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University seeks a Research Engineer (Electrical) to work with Center scientists, staff and students designing and implementing circuits and instrumentation and implementing and testing electronic and microfluidic components and systems. The experienced professional will design, implement and test complex developmental electronic circuits, components and systems, such as components of specialized research instrumentation, applying principles and theories of electronics, electrical circuitry, engineering mathematics, electronic testing, and physics.

Required Qualifications:
PhD degree in electrical engineering or related discipline AND six years of experience OR any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Desired Qualifications:
Strongly prefer demonstrated experience leading projects to design and implement low-noise, mixed-signal circuits, associated with complex, integrated systems utilizing low-light optical detectors; electrochemical detectors; and other low-noise sensors and associated signal conditioning, amplification, conversion and transmission circuitry. Prefer demonstrated experience designing and building integrated microscale bioanalytical systems incorporating high-end sensing and signal processing functionality.  Previous experience with microfluidic devices.  Detailed knowledge of: active and passive shielding; op-amps; A/D converters; microprocessors; CMOS and TTL logic.   Demonstrated experience interfacing hardware and software with equipment and systems.

Salary:
$90,000-130,000 per year, DOE.

Application Deadline:  The application deadline is December 21, 2007, or every week thereafter until the search is closed.
 
Application Procedure:  Submit a cover letter, résumé, and the names, addresses (email and/or street) and phone numbers of three professional references to:  biodesignelectricalengineer@asu.edu.

General Information:  The Center for Ecogenomics pursues the development of microfluidic devices and related technologies for genomic analysis to address fundamental problems in biology and health.  We develop microscale instruments to measure multiple parameters in individual living cells in real time to correlate cellular events with genomic information such as gene expression and genomic rearrangements.  These microsystem modules comprise a low-cost, flexible, reconfigurable, bench top toolbox with state-of-the-art detection and analysis features to enable scientists to pursue and solve scientific questions that require analysis of heterogeneous cell populations.  The instruments are used for real-time quantitative assessment of expression of different genes and the resulting phenotypes as a function of environmental (and cell-to-cell) interactions.  Experiments are performed with yeast, macrophages, human endothelial and T-cells, and bacteria.  Current capabilities in live cells include measurement of substrate-dependent O2 consumption rates and measurement of expression from multiple genes using fluorescent reporters.  In fixed cells we are developing the ability to carry out qPCR and qRT-PCR on multiple genes simultaneously and to generate single cell proteomics profiles.
This position is a year-to-year appointment. Continuation of this position is contingent on satisfactory performance, availability of funding and the needs of the program. A background check is required for employment. AA/EOE.