Engineering Lead

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead product design, development, and manufacturing across optics, electronics, mechanics, and fluidics, from requirements through verification and production.
• Own manufacturing internally or through contract partners, including design for manufacturability, design transfer, and controlled documentation.
• Maintain bills of materials, assembly instructions, acceptance criteria, and test procedures for consistent, repeatable production.
• Enable field service through troubleshooting, repairs, spare parts, and escalations; feed failure data into design and manufacturing.
• Lead and mentor the engineering team, set standards, and resolve technical barriers.
• Own engineering roadmap, planning, and budget with the leadership team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering or a relevant STEM field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• At least 5 years of hardware engineering experience taking products from development into manufacturing and field use.
• Experience in scientific or medical instruments, optical or photonic systems, microfluidics or consumables, or comparably complex electromechanical products.
• Experience managing contract manufacturers or outside design partners and their quality, delivery, cost, and performance.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers; systems thinking across mechanical, electrical, optical, and firmware interfaces, with depth in one discipline.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada.

Additional assets

• Advanced optical measurement platform experience, including single-molecule or microscopy, is an asset.
• Consumables or microfluidic device manufacturing familiarity and supply-chain or procurement experience are assets.
• CAD fluency with Onshape, SolidWorks, or similar is an asset.

Why ScopeSys

• Opportunity to build the engineering function at an early-stage deep-tech company and take products from prototyping through customer deployment.
• The role spans hardware design, manufacturing, and service across optics, electronics, fluidics, and mechanical systems.
• The employer offers competitive compensation, stock options, and benefits.

Compensation

• Pay is $90,000 to $130,000 per year.

Workplace

• Work location is in person.