Optics Engineer to Life-Science start-up

Our partner continues their road to greatness and have quickly expanded their business to scale their success-story, developing a state-of-the-art life science product. You will be part of a hard-working organisation that every day gives their best to experiment and develop new-thinking technology within the research area.

Your contributions as an Optics Engineer will be of great importance to the development, integration and testing of microscope designs together with the hardware and software.

You are offered

• To be a part of a company with the ambition the achieve great success
• Working closely with a senior colleagues with high level of competence
• A dedicated partnership with your Consultant Manager

• Test and evaluate new designs and components
• Support and improve experimental setups containing fluidics and optics
• Write and optimize scripts in Python
• Hands-on build new instrument set-ups as part of product development
• Offer technical assistance, maintenance, and troubleshooting expertise for microscope setups

• MSc in Engineering Physics, Technical Biology, Mechatronics or similar
• Hands-on experience of working with optics in an industrial or academic setting
• Experience of working with product development, preferably in Life-Science
• Proficiency in Python scripting
• Proficiency in English, both verbally and in writing

It is meritorious if you have

• Ph.D in Optics or Microscopy
• Work-life experience with microscopy
• Proficiency in Swedish, both verbally and in writing

To succeed in the role, your personal skills are:

We are looking for candidates that enjoy working in a goal-oriented environment and in projects with multi-functional teams involved. The right candidate is driven, technical and hands-on candidate with an excellent sense of service.

It is important to have solid communication skills and a flexible mindset. To succeed in the role you have strong teamwork skills and an analytical and pragmatic approach. You are friendly, positive, and fun to work with and you enjoy working in a fast-paced and changing environment.

Our recruitment process

This recruitment process is handled by Academic Work and it is our client’s wish that all questions regarding the position is directed to Academic Work.

Our selection process is continuous and the advert may close before the recruitment process is completed if we have moved forward to the next phase. The process includes two tests: one personality test and one cognitive test. The tests are tools to find the right talent for the right position, to enable equality, diversity, and a fair process.