Engineering
Principal Software Engineer Lead Developer / Architect
What you’ll do
- Act as the technical lead for large parts of the scanner platform: system architecture, codebase structure, and long-term maintainability.
- Own core runtime foundations: distributed control, state management, fault handling, and reliability.
- Drive engineering rigor: testability, code quality, review standards, performance regression prevention, and release processes.
- Build robust observability: logs, metrics, traces, and replayable diagnostics (with privacy constraints).
- Collaborate with hardware and recon/ML teams to define interfaces, data contracts, timing/synchronization, and failure modes.
- Lead complex refactors (e.g., message passing / RPC boundaries, modularization, concurrency model) without halting forward progress.
What we’re looking for
- Deep software architecture experience for real-world systems: robotics, instrumentation, medical devices, or other complex distributed products.
- Strong Python and concurrency background (asyncio, multiprocessing, profiling, performance engineering).
- Track record of shipping systems that are observable, debuggable, and resilient.
- Strong technical leadership: clarity, pragmatic trade-offs, and mentoring.
Useful experience
- Building lean but rock-solid systems: clear interfaces (gRPC/protobuf or equivalent), strong state modeling, and failure handling.
- High-leverage engineering habits on a lean team: good tests, CI, reproducible dev environments, and fast code review.
- Practical performance + concurrency work in Python (asyncio, profiling, multiprocessing) and comfort debugging distributed behavior.
- Security-minded device software: safe defaults, encrypted data paths, and disciplined handling of PII/PHI.
- Operational thinking: remote updates/management, excellent logging, and diagnostics that make real hardware debuggable.
Electrical Engineer Systems / Integration / Experimentation
What you’ll do
- Be the generalist EE for the scanner system: integration, bring-up, debugging, and making the electrical side of the device reliable and serviceable.
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Own ultrasound experimentation that feeds the image reconstruction team
- Design and execute experiment setups for transducer characterization (element sensitivity, bandwidth, cross-talk mapping, beam profile measurements) and ex vivo / phantom clinical testing.
- Acquire, process, and analyze RF and baseband signals for data quality assessment and benchmarking.
- Design simple boards and adapters as needed (monitoring, power/safety, interface/conditioning), and take them from prototype through a stable revision.
- Prototype quickly, then harden what works: wiring/harnessing, grounding, safety interlocks, and reliable integration across subsystems.
- Own practical test setups and documentation (fixtures, scripts, procedures) that make experiments repeatable and results comparable over time.
What we’re looking for
- Strong hands-on EE background with experience building, debugging, and iterating on real systems in the lab.
- Solid understanding of signal processing fundamentals — knows what to measure, how to condition and digitize it, and how to evaluate signal quality in the context of an imaging system (SNR, bandwidth, dynamic range, artifacts).
- Comfortable spanning system integration + occasional design work (schematics/layout reviews or light PCB design) in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to work at the boundary between hardware and algorithms: measure reality, communicate constraints, and help close gaps vs simulation.
- High agency and practicality: able to set up experiments, get trustworthy data, and unblock others on a lean team.
Useful experience
- Analog/mixed-signal, or high-speed data capture experience; strong instincts for instrumentation and noise/debugging.
- Ultrasound or acoustic sensor handling: hydrophone calibration and field mapping, transducer impedance characterization, element-level sensitivity and bandwidth testing, acoustic coupling optimization (water path, gel, membrane interfaces).
- Signal processing skills: spectral analysis (FFT, short-time spectra), time-frequency methods, matched filtering, envelope detection / Hilbert transforms, time-of-flight extraction, and coherent vs. incoherent averaging for SNR improvement.
- Understanding of imaging principles or direct experience with imaging systems: beamforming concepts (delay-and-sum, synthetic aperture), point spread function characterization, resolution/contrast metrics, image artifact identification (grating lobes, side lobes, ring artifacts, motion blur).
- Wave physics background (acoustic, EM, or optical): propagation, reflection/transmission at interfaces, attenuation and dispersion in tissue-mimicking media, near-field vs. far-field behavior, diffraction.
- Light PCB design for simple boards (Altium/KiCad/etc.) and comfort bringing boards up on the bench.
- Comfort aligning “device reality” with “model reality” (calibration, timing, parameter tracking, reproducibility).
- Safety-conscious integration experience (EMI/EMC, grounding, interlocks) in complex electromechanical systems.
Senior Cloud / Data Engineer Data / Reconstruction / HIPAA
What you’ll do
- Design and implement secure cloud pipelines that ingest very large scan datasets (multi-terabyte), reliably and resumably.
- Build orchestration for GPU-accelerated reconstruction and analysis with strong retry semantics, idempotency, and cost controls.
- Define end-to-end data lifecycle for medical imaging: raw vs intermediate vs derived artifacts, retention policies, and reproducibility.
- Implement security + compliance primitives appropriate for HIPAA/PHI: encryption in transit/at rest, key management, least privilege, audit logs, and access reviews.
- Build operational tooling: monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident-driven improvements for a growing device fleet.
What we’re looking for
- Strong experience with cloud batch/queueing/orchestration, storage systems, and data pipeline reliability.
- Experience shipping production systems that handle large data volumes and failure-prone networks.
- Practical security mindset (least privilege, secrets, audit logging) and comfort operating in compliance-constrained environments.
Useful experience
- Building reliable data pipelines at scale (queues/orchestration, resumable uploads, GPU batch execution) with strong observability.
- Security + privacy by default: encryption, least-privilege access, auditing, and practical HIPAA/PHI guardrails.
- Owning the “boring” backend details that keep a lean team moving: schemas/migrations, cost controls, retries, and runbooks.
- Understanding compute tradeoffs across hardware options, and specifying appropriate cloud resources.
Principal Machine Learning Engineer Reconstruction / Quantitative Imaging
What you’ll do
- Partner with medical image reconstruction scientists / engineers to build ML components that improve reconstruction quality, speed, robustness, or quantitative accuracy.
- Define training/evaluation pipelines, datasets, and metrics that map to user needs and design requirements.
- Productionize models: inference performance, reproducibility, monitoring for drift/regressions, and safe fallbacks.
- Collaborate on hybrid algorithms, incorporating physics and learned priors, denoisers, learned regularizers, and quality estimation.
- Help build tooling for rapid experimentation as well as rigorous verification of algorithm changes.
What we’re looking for
- Strong applied ML experience plus comfort with signal processing / imaging or adjacent domains.
- Ability to move fluidly between research prototypes and production-quality systems.
- Strong evaluation discipline: metrics, ablations, data leakage avoidance, and reproducibility.
- A demonstrated track record of applying ML to physics-based or inverse problems (i.e., shipped projects, a portfolio, or publications).
Useful experience
- ML for imaging/inverse problems (or adjacent) with strong evaluation discipline and comfort with GPU performance constraints.
- Pragmatic production mindset: reproducible training/inference, regression testing, and safe deployment in high-stakes contexts.
- A background in computational physics or scientific computing.
- Leverage ML-based methods such as PiNNs and Neural Operators to solve partial differential equations arising in ultrasound simulation and imaging.
- Experience in Agentic-SciML is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with data curation for ML: building datasets from messy, real-world sources, defining ground truth, and managing labeling or simulation pipelines.
- Background in data assimilation: combining observations with physics-based models (Kalman filtering, variational methods, ensemble approaches, or learned variants).
Senior Software Engineer User App
What you’ll do
- Own end-to-end development of the User App: architecture, implementation, testing, release process, and long-term maintainability.
- Implement core product surfaces (Home, Scans, Schedule, Notifications, Profile) and the supporting state/data layer.
- Integrate cleanly with the Medical Cloud API facade: auth/session flows, polling reads, and push-to-refresh update mechanisms.
- Build a robust offline/read-only shell and local caching strategy for “offline-viewable” / pinned scan artifacts.
- Drive quality and reliability: instrumentation, error handling, performance budgets, and guardrails for high-stakes user journeys.
- Partner tightly with Cloud API, Cloud Recon, and Clinical Analysis to translate design requirements into shippable, testable user experiences.
What we’re looking for
- Strong front-end engineering experience shipping production web apps with complex state, routing, and data flows.
- Excellent product + UX judgment: can turn requirements into simple, resilient interfaces and iterate quickly with stakeholders.
- Strong API integration discipline: typed contracts, backward compatibility, and pragmatic fault-tolerant client behavior.
- High bar for code quality: tests, reviews, CI, and maintainable architecture on a lean team.
Useful experience
- Experience building offline-capable apps (caching, sync semantics, and “read-only” degraded modes).
- Privacy/security mindset for medical-adjacent workflows (least privilege, careful logging, and sensitive data handling).
- Familiarity with service-oriented architectures and real-time-ish UI update patterns (polling + server-driven invalidation).
Quality Engineer System / Software / Hardware
What you’ll do
- Execute weekly system-level exploratory testing across the scanner and supporting software; log and triage issues with clear reproduction steps.
- Work with engineering to debug root cause and validate fixes.
- Help maintain the DHF and traceability between user needs, design requirements, tests, and results.
- Own practical test execution logistics (fixtures, test data, environments, calibration artifacts) and keep things repeatable.
- Help build the continuous testing strategy: automated tests where feasible, plus structured manual and system tests.
- Support V&V activities, including coordination with external partners as needed.
What we’re looking for
- Strong hands-on testing instincts for complex electromechanical systems with substantial software.
- Ability to write clear bug reports and communicate risk/impact.
- Experience building and maintaining test plans/protocols; comfort operating lab equipment and debugging across layers.
Useful experience
- Experience testing complex systems end-to-end (automation where it pays off, plus hands-on hardware/instrumentation).
- Medical device or other safety-critical environments and comfort translating risk into practical test coverage.
Operations
Quality Director Medical Device / USCT
What you’ll do
- Own and evolve the Quality Management System (QMS) to support a regulated medical device development program, including design controls and DHF maintenance.
- Establish and enforce requirements traceability: user needs → design requirements → verification/validation artifacts and change control.
- Define and run the program-level V&V strategy (verification, validation, and test coverage), including test plans, protocols, reports, and acceptance criteria.
- Drive risk management activities (e.g., DFMEA / PFMEA, hazard analyses) and ensure mitigations are reflected in requirements and verification.
- Lead document control: reviews, approvals, training, retention, and audit readiness.
- Partner with engineering to make quality “native” to the dev workflow (automated testing, release gates, software configuration management).
- Prepare the program for audits and inspections, including hands-on audit leadership.
What we’re looking for
- Senior experience leading quality for complex hardware + software products in a regulated environment.
- Deep familiarity with design controls, DHF, document control, risk management, and verification planning.
- Strong systems thinking and the ability to translate ambiguous product intent into testable requirements.
- Comfortable collaborating directly with multidisciplinary engineering (recon/ML, embedded, mechanical, EE, cloud).
Useful experience
- Regulated product quality leadership (ISO 13485 / 21 CFR 820 or equivalent), including audit readiness and FDA-facing work.
- eQMS + document control fluency (e.g., Greenlight Guru) that integrates cleanly with modern engineering workflows.
Spa Project Manager Construction, Facilities, Globalization
What you’ll do
- Own end-to-end delivery of the physical “research spa” experience: site selection/fit-out, construction, facilities, and readiness for scanner operations.
- Translate product + clinical/operational requirements into a build plan: schedule, budget, procurement, dependencies, and risk register.
- Lead vendors and partners (GCs, architects, MEP, specialty trades, inspectors), and run weekly coordination with clear milestones and accountability.
- Manage facilities systems critical to the scanner experience (power, cooling, water, acoustics, shielding, safety interlocks, accessibility) and ensure they meet reliability and serviceability needs.
- Build repeatable playbooks for multi-site rollout (globalization): standard layouts, bills of materials, commissioning checklists, and acceptance criteria.
- Own commissioning and handoff: operational procedures, maintenance plans, spare parts, training, and incident response / escalation paths.
What we’re looking for
- Proven project/program management experience delivering complex facilities or construction projects end-to-end (labs, clinics, robotics, high-end hospitality, or similar).
- Strong vendor management and cross-functional leadership; can drive decisions across design, engineering, operations, and compliance.
- Comfort with MEP coordination and the practical realities of building/commissioning (permits, inspections, change orders, punch lists).
- High attention to detail, strong written communication, and an instinct for de-risking critical path items early.
Useful experience
- Experience scaling physical locations (multi-site rollouts) with standardization, cost control, and local adaptation.
- Exposure to regulated environments (medical devices/clinical operations) and safety programs (EHS, accessibility, privacy/PHI considerations).
- Background in high-touch hospitality or experiential spaces where user experience and operational throughput both matter.
Operations Lead Medical
What you’ll do
- Own day-to-day operations for the scanner program and scanner builds in the spa: purchasing/procurement, vendor management, receiving, inventory, and logistics.
- Stand up lightweight production operations as we move from prototypes to repeatable builds: build planning, kitting, work instructions, and readiness checklists.
- Partner with Quality to ensure the operational system supports compliance: traceability, document control, training records, NCR/CAPA workflows, and audit readiness.
- Drive cross-functional execution for the physical spa build-out and scanner integration: schedules, dependencies, risk register, and weekly coordination with vendors and internal teams.
- Own the “integration glue” across facilities + device ops: commissioning plans, acceptance criteria, and operational handoff (runbooks, maintenance, spares, escalation paths).
- Build and track operational metrics: cost, budget, lead times, vendor performance, build throughput, and reliability of critical subsystems.
- Audit import/export documentation, manage contract renewals, and oversee regulatory compliance.
What we’re looking for
- Proven operations leadership in hardware/medical/robotics (or similarly complex electromechanical products), including procurement and vendor management.
- Strong program management instincts: can run schedules, unblock cross-functional dependencies, and keep priorities clear under ambiguity.
- Comfort operating in quality/regulatory environments and building processes that are rigorous without slowing a small team.
- High ownership and bias to action: can jump between spreadsheets, docks, and the lab/site to keep the program moving.
Useful experience
- Experience running prototype-to-production transitions (NPI, EVT/DVT/PVT-style builds, CM/EMS collaboration).
- Facilities / construction operations experience (GC coordination, MEP commissioning, site readiness).
- Familiarity with inventory systems and procurement tooling (even “simple but disciplined”).
All Positions
- Full-time, benefited
- In-person in San Francisco, CA (hybrid possible situationally)
- Mission: build and launch the world’s first full-body ultrasound CT scanner, ultimately bringing safe, fast, and high fidelity preventative scanning to billions via a magical spa experience.
Interested in any of these roles — or think you can help in another way? Email us at [email protected]