Electronic Instrumentation Engineer - Pathogen

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas:

• Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
• Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
• Climate Change & Managing CO₂
• Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more .org.

Within this ecosystem, the Pathogen Project exemplifies EIT’s dedication to ground‑breaking science. It seeks to transform pathogen risk management, detection and response by leveraging Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)–based metagenomic and pathogen‑specific analytical tools. The goal is to power metagenomic devices using long‑read sequencing technologies by building a comprehensive database of pathogen information to inform response. Enabled by Oracle Inc.’s cloud‑computing scale and security, the Pathogen Project is advancing toward certified diagnostic tools for deployment in laboratories, hospitals, and public health organisations worldwide.

The EIT Pathogen Programme – Applied Sequencing team is seeking an Electronic Instrumentation Engineer to help develop next‑generation diagnostic technology. In this role, you’ll work alongside experts in microfluidics, microbiology, and data engineering to specify, source and assemble off‑the‑shelf components into functional instrumentation for a point‑of‑care device capable of metagenomic sequencing through a microfluidic cartridge interface.

The work will focus on developing control systems for pumps, valves, actuators, and sensors used to manipulate fluids at the microscale – including movement, mixing, thermal control, and data capture. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to innovative healthcare technology with real‑world impact.

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