About NousQ

NousQ is a new medtech startup company that develops a surgical medical device in the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) field to address a key unmet healthcare need in glue ear treatment. It offers a novel solution by providing the world's first automated device that could revolutionise the current way of treating the condition. 

NousQ is proud to be the Top 5 winners of the Medtronic APAC Innovation Challenge 2022, and is honoured to be the winner of other innovation challenge such as MedTech Innovator Challenge APAC 2022 Accelerator Cohort, Victoria Health Week MedTech Festival as well as the recent China TusStar APAC Challenge. 

https://www.nousq.com/ 

Job Description

NousQ is a Singapore-based company focusing on research, design, develop, manufacture and commercialize medical technology and solutions that optimize healthcare delivery and serve large unmet needs for patients. The focus is on patient-centric solutions that patients really want and need.  Currently, NousQ is looking for a passionate firmware engineer to join our growing team.   

We want to introduce the world to CLiKX, a revolutionary and cutting-edge robotic medical device. CLiKX will transform glue ear surgeries by moving the procedure from the operating room to an outpatient setting. As a result, the time, money, and resources needed for such a procedure are significantly reduced.  

You will join our team of pioneer innovators in bringing CLiKX to the millions of untreated children who suffer from glue ears. 

Roles and Responsibilities

• Participate in ideation, conceptualization, design and iteration, verification and validation, manufacturing support for new product pipeline involving embedded system. 

• Be involved in design reviews to identify issues and derive robust solutions that meet the intended use, safety and effectiveness, as well as quality of the product. 

• Collaborate with manufacturing partners to communicate design concepts, technical and/or business trade-offs, and engineering solutions. 

• Perform firmware engineering tasks including:
  (1) Translate/refine high-level requirements into the architecture and engineering specifications of the firmware system;
  (2) Design, develop, integrate and debug/troubleshoot the embedded system/MCU-related hardware to meet the defined objectives, targeted cost and schedule;
  (3) Support the development and execution of relevant test plans, including unit test, integration test and system test to verify and validate that the product can meet all requirements;
  (4) Support functional and reliability tests to ensure safety and performance of the overall product systems. 

• Generate and maintain the necessary documentation for the firmware systems, including design documents, firmware architecture, schematics, SOP/work instructions, Device Master Record (DMR) and other documentations needed to meet the regulatory requirements such as Design History File (DHF), IEC62304, ISO13485 & FDA 21 CFR Part 820. 

• Oversee firmware design change orders and support any relevant verification and validation activities. 

• Support ad-hoc administrative duties as and when required to ensure smooth operation of the company’s activities. 

Requirement of Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Master’s/PhD degree in Biomedical/Electronics/Computer Engineering with experience in embedded system development. The engineer will be a part of the startup team focusing on product realisation process. 

• Good understanding of product realisation process and preferably with prior experience or interest in embedded system design and development processes. 

• Relevant experiences include coding with programming language such as C/C++ and/or competent in applying other similar IDEs/toolchains for firmware development. 

• Knowledgeable in quality concepts including verification and validation, and reliability testing. 

• Good understanding of medical device software regulatory requirements, such as IEC62304 and/or FDA Software in Medical Device requirements. 

• Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English and good inter-personal skills to engage and interact with team members, vendors, consultant and any potential third party. 

• Possess a high level of integrity, independent, self-motivated and enjoy working in a fast-paced startup environment. 

• Experience in electronic circuit design and/or AI/ML-related development is a plus. 

Skills to be learnt

• Electronics 

• Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design 

• Product Development 

• Product Management 

• Usability Design 

• Hardware Design