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Skills: System Design, Requirements Management, System Integration, Verification and Validation, Root Cause Analysis
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Fremont, California, United States · On-site
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Lead the development, integration, and verification of advanced flow cytometry instruments by translating product needs into technical requirements. Collaborate cross-functionally to drive technical decisions and ensure product reliability and performance throughout the lifecycle.
Requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical field and 5+ years of experience in systems engineering or complex instrument integration. Candidates should have expertise in multidisciplinary systems involving hardware, software, optics, and fluidics.
Cytek is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support the development, integration, verification, and lifecycle management of advanced flow cytometry instruments and related software/hardware systems. This role will work cross-functionally with R&D, software, firmware, hardware, optical, fluidics, assay, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and service teams to translate product needs into system requirements, drive technical decisions, and ensure product performance, reliability, and usability.
The ideal candidate has strong system-level thinking, hands-on experience with complex electromechanical or optical instruments, and the ability to lead technical problem-solving across multiple engineering disciplines.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform essential duties and responsibilities satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Lead system-level requirement definition, decomposition, and traceability for flow cytometry instruments and related products.
• Translate customer, clinical, manufacturing, service, and regulatory needs into clear and testable system requirements.
• Work with hardware, software, firmware, optics, fluidics, and assay teams to define interfaces, dependencies, and performance expectations.
• Support architecture decisions and trade-off analysis for new product features and platform improvements.
• Lead system integration activities across instrument hardware, embedded firmware, application software, optics, fluidics, and reagents.
• Identify system-level risks early and drive mitigation plans.
• Troubleshoot complex system issues involving signal quality, fluidics behavior, optical alignment, acquisition performance, QC behavior, and instrument reliability.
• Provide technical leadership during design reviews, issue investigations, and cross-functional decision-making.
• Develop and review system verification plans, test protocols, acceptance criteria, and reports.
• Support verification and validation activities for new product development, product updates, and sustaining engineering changes.
• Analyze test data, identify trends, and communicate conclusions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ensure system-level testing is aligned with product requirements, user needs, and regulatory expectations.
• Support risk management activities, including hazard analysis, FMEA, and mitigation verification.
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, and Service teams to resolve field issues, manufacturing issues, and product performance concerns.
• Contribute to design changes, root cause investigations, CAPA support, and continuous product improvement.
• Help improve engineering processes related to requirements management, verification, system integration, and technical documentation.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, Bioengineering, or a related technical field preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, product development, or integration of complex instruments.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary systems involving hardware, software, firmware, optics, fluidics, sensors, or biological assays.
• Strong ability to define clear requirements, test plans, acceptance criteria, and technical documentation.
• Experience with system verification, validation, root cause analysis, and data-driven troubleshooting.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, service, and product teams.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, drive alignment, and make sound engineering judgments under ambiguity.
• Experience with flow cytometry, cell analysis, medical devices, diagnostics, life science instruments, or laboratory automation.
• Knowledge of fluorescence detection, lasers, PMTs/APDs, optical filters, signal processing, fluidics, or sample delivery systems.
• Experience with FDA-regulated or ISO 13485 product development environments.
• Familiarity with design controls, risk management, requirements traceability, verification/validation, and change control.
• Experience analyzing instrument performance metrics such as sensitivity, resolution, linearity, carryover, precision, event rate, QC performance, or signal-to-noise ratio.
• Experience using tools such as Jama, Jira, Confluence, Polarion, DOORS, JMP, MATLAB, Python, or similar data analysis and requirements management tools.
Strong system-level thinking | Requirements and verification discipline |
Cross-functional leadership | Hands-on troubleshooting mindset |
Data-driven problem solving | Ability to manage ambiguity |
Clear technical communication | Strong ownership and accountability |
The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Cytek is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, disability status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Transcend The Conventional
Cytek® Biosciences Inc. is a leading manufacturer and supplier of flow cytometry products and services. Cytek’s compact, affordable instruments and wide ranging support offerings are used by researchers and clinicians all over the world. Flow cytometry is a powerful analytical tool used for identifying and quantifying cellular characteristics on a cell-by-cell basis up to tens of thousands of cells per second. This technology is used in research and clinical studies with various biomedical and therapeutic applications such as investigating the role of the body’s immune system in fighting cancer, diagnosing leukemia and lymphoma, and detecting minimal residual disease in organ transplant patients. Flow cytometry has many advantages over traditional microscopy since it enables the analysis of a greater number of cells in a fraction of the time. At Cytek, we are focused on accelerating the adoption of flow cytometry for one simple reason: to fuel scientific discovery. We have leveraged our highly experienced, best-in-the-business team to bring forth an innovative new class of flow cytometry solutions. These solutions deliver deep biological insights at an affordable price, provide high-end capabilities, and bring simplified workflows to more researchers than ever before. As a company, we also seek to maintain high ethical standards and a culture that values honesty, integrity and transparency in all that we do. Company decisions are driven by what is right for scientific discovery and customer support. We are committed to our employees, to the environment in which we live and to the communities we serve worldwide. Cytek is headquartered in Fremont, California with branch offices and distribution channels across the globe. For more information, visit www.cytekbio.com.
Offices: Fremont, CA 94538, US
Transcend The Conventional
Cytek® Biosciences Inc. is a leading manufacturer and supplier of flow cytometry products and services. Cytek’s compact, affordable instruments and wide ranging support offerings are used by researchers and clinicians all over the world. Flow cytometry is a powerful analytical tool used for identifying and quantifying cellular characteristics on a cell-by-cell basis up to tens of thousands of cells per second. This technology is used in research and clinical studies with various biomedical and therapeutic applications such as investigating the role of the body’s immune system in fighting cancer, diagnosing leukemia and lymphoma, and detecting minimal residual disease in organ transplant patients. Flow cytometry has many advantages over traditional microscopy since it enables the analysis of a greater number of cells in a fraction of the time. At Cytek, we are focused on accelerating the adoption of flow cytometry for one simple reason: to fuel scientific discovery. We have leveraged our highly experienced, best-in-the-business team to bring forth an innovative new class of flow cytometry solutions. These solutions deliver deep biological insights at an affordable price, provide high-end capabilities, and bring simplified workflows to more researchers than ever before. As a company, we also seek to maintain high ethical standards and a culture that values honesty, integrity and transparency in all that we do. Company decisions are driven by what is right for scientific discovery and customer support. We are committed to our employees, to the environment in which we live and to the communities we serve worldwide. Cytek is headquartered in Fremont, California with branch offices and distribution channels across the globe. For more information, visit www.cytekbio.com.
Offices: Fremont, CA 94538, US
