{"id":1252476,"url":"https://alion.io/job/astar-electrical-embedded-engineer-diagnostics-development-hub-dxd-astar","title":"Electrical & Embedded Engineer | Diagnostics Development Hub (DxD) | A*STAR","company":{"id":50235,"name":"Agency for Science, Technology and Research","domain":"a-star.edu.sg","url":"https://alion.io/company/a-star-edu","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":81,"open_postings":48,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.979,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":21,"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Singapore"],"countries":["SG"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":45000,"max_usd":97000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":28},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Python","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T18:36:13Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T14:11:46Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":33,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":33},"description":"Electrical & Embedded Engineer | Diagnostics Development Hub (DxD) | A*STAR\nDxD Hub is Singapore's national platform for diagnostics development, hosted by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). With a mission to revolutionise diagnostics and improve healthcare outcomes, DxD Hub drives the transformation of innovations into clinically validated diagnostic devices ready for market adoption - leveraging an end-to-end, ISO 13485-compliant productisation engine across In Vitro Diagnostics, Point-Of-Care Connected Devices, Digital Diagnostics, and Digital Therapeutics. By delivering impactful products, empowering local enterprises, and anchoring global companies in the region, DxD Hub plays a central role in developing Singapore's diagnostic MedTech ecosystem.\nJob Scope\nWe are seeking an Electrical & Embedded Engineer to join our multidisciplinary Integrated Medical Technology engineering team. Candidate will own the embedded hardware architecture and device firmware of new diagnostic platforms - microcontroller selection, peripheral and sensor interfacing, control loops for thermal, optical, fluidic, and motion subsystems, communications, and the on-device test and diagnostic capability that makes a prototype verifiable. Candidate will own the PCB design intent and the partner relationship end to end - writing the specification, defining the architecture and interface requirements, driving schematic and layout reviews, setting acceptance criteria, and taking responsibility for the quality, cost, and schedule. This is an on-site role\nCandidate will work across a broad range of IVD and POCT modalities including optical and fluorescence detection, electrochemical sensing, thermal control for PCR and isothermal amplification, and motion and fluidic actuation. Candidate will contribute to multiple concurrent projects at different stages of maturity, working as part of a close-knit, cross-disciplinary team alongside mechanical, optical, software, and assay colleagues.\nThe ideal candidate combines genuine depth in embedded systems and firmware with the systems judgement to specify and steer external hardware design. Equally important is a strong motivation to understand the clinical use case, the clinical workflow device must fit into, and the clinical adoption economics, such as cost per test, throughput, and reimbursement reality.\nRoles and Responsibilities\nEmbedded and firmware\nOwn the embedded hardware architecture of diagnostic prototypes and MVPs, such as MCU selection, memory and peripheral budgeting, power architecture and low-power strategy, and the analogue front-end interface to sensors.\nDevelop, review, and maintain device firmware: peripheral drivers, sensor acquisition, real-time control loops (thermal, motion, optical gain, fluidic actuation), communications stacks, and error handling.\nDesign and implement on-device self-test, calibration, and diagnostic routines that make instruments verifiable, serviceable, and traceable in the field.\nDefine and document hardware firmware interfaces, register maps, and boot/update strategy, and lead debugging at the hardware firmware boundary using logic analysers, debuggers, and instrumented traces.\nBuild validation scripts and interfaces that enable automated bench testing.\nEmbedded Linux - system customisation and OS trimming; ability to write user-space or kernel-level programs that directly control MMIO, GPIO, interrupts, and DMA.\nARM/STM32 expertise is mandatory - STM32 HAL/LL, clock tree, flash/RAM partitioning, bootloader, OTA. ESP32/ESP8266 experience is a plus.\nIDE proficiency - Keil MDK and IAR Embedded Workbench (including debug, trace, and performance analysis).\nWork with firmware and software colleagues to define hardware-firmware interfaces, register maps, and diagnostic/self-test capability; contribute to firmware development and debugging where required.\nMotor control - BLDC/stepper/servo driver development; closed-loop control (FOC, six-step, current/speed/position) with encoder/Hall feedback; PWM generation for power stage driving.\nProven low-level development - must demonstrate verifiable experience.\nOutsourced PCB design management\nAuthor PCB design specifications and requirement documents.\nSelect, brief, and manage external PCB design houses and assembly vendors;\nLead schematic and layout reviews with design partners, exercising the technical judgement to challenge decisions on grounding, signal and power integrity, thermal management, EMC layout practice, and manufacturability.\nOwn component selection strategy alongside partners, including second sourcing, obsolescence risk, lead times, and cost-down opportunities.\nTake responsibility for board bring-up, characterisation, and fault diagnosis on returned designs, and drive corrective actions and design iterations with the partner.\nManage design data integrity such as libraries, revision control, BOM accuracy, fabrication and assembly documentation so that design ownership and know-how remain with DxD Hub rather than with the vendor.\nGuide EMC/EMI, electrical safety, and environmental readiness of designs, and support pre-compliance and formal testing against applicable standards.\nPreferred skill/expertise\nPLC programming experience.\nEmbedded UI development.\nFamiliarity with CI/CD firmware delivery.\nClinical application and team:\nEngage with clinical collaborators and end users to understand intended use, workflow constraints, and cost-of-adoption drivers, and reflect these in architecture decisions and component-level cost targets.\nProvide technical mentorship and design review for junior electrical engineers, and supervise interns on assigned tasks.\nMaintain design documentation, risk analyses, and test records in accordance with design control principles (ISO 13485), supporting the design history file.\nKey Requirements\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, Biomedical Engineering, or a related discipline.\n5 to 10 years of hands-on embedded systems experience, with at least one full product development cycle completed from concept through verification.\nStrong embedded firmware capability.\nDeep working knowledge of peripheral and communication interfaces, UART, SPI, I2C, ADC/DAC, PWM, USB, BLE, and of sensor interfacing and signal conditioning at the analogue front end.\nDemonstrated ability to specify, review, and manage outsourced PCB design: writing hardware requirement specifications, running schematic and layout reviews, and holding external design partners to technical and commercial expectations. Fluency in reading schematics and layouts is essential; the ability to use a PCB tool for review, mark-up, or simple in-house boards is expected, but professional layout experience is not required.\nProficiency with bench instrumentation, oscilloscopes, logic analysers, source measure units, power supplies, data acquisition and structured, hypothesis-driven debugging methodology.\nProficiency in Python for test automation, instrument control, and data analysis; \nPractical familiarity with EMC/EMI mitigation and electrical safety design; exposure to IEC 61010, IEC 60601, or IEC 61326 is a strong advantage.\nExperience developing products under a design control or quality management system (ISO 13485, IEC 62304, or equivalent) is highly desirable.\nExperience with medical device, diagnostic, or scientific instrumentation is strongly preferred; familiarity with optical detection, electrochemical sensing, thermal cycling, or microfluidic instrumentation is advantageous.\n Preferred: hands-on experience with flexible electrodes and screen-printed electrode fabrication - including ink and substrate selection, printing and curing processes, electrode characterisation, and the electrical interfacing of printed sensors to readout electronics.\nFamiliarity with CMOS-based sensing or semiconductor sensor readout architectures is a good-to-have.\nComfort navigating uncertain situations without clear guidelines, and adaptability to changing project requirements and priorities.\nProven ability to work on multiple projects concurrently and to thrive in a collaborative team setting, sharing knowledge and supporting colleagues across disciplines.\nStrong motivation to understand the clinical use case, intended user workflow, and adoption economics of the products being developed, and to let that understanding shape engineering decisions.\nStrong vendor and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate technical issues clearly to non-technical stakeholders and to negotiate scope and schedule with external partners.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8674,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T18:36:13Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":24,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.525,"p_room":0.45,"age_days":33,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/astar-electrical-embedded-engineer-diagnostics-development-hub-dxd-astar","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/astar-electrical-embedded-engineer-diagnostics-development-hub-dxd-astar.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T18:16:40Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":27034,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":50235},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=50235"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fastar-electrical-embedded-engineer-diagnostics-development-hub-dxd-astar"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fastar-electrical-embedded-engineer-diagnostics-development-hub-dxd-astar"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fastar-electrical-embedded-engineer-diagnostics-development-hub-dxd-astar"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/astar-electrical-embedded-engineer-diagnostics-development-hub-dxd-astar\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fastar-electrical-embedded-engineer-diagnostics-development-hub-dxd-astar"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1252476}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"a-star.edu.sg","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1252476},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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