Research Engineer

About Lumafield:

Founded in 2019, Lumafield has developed the world's first accessible X-Ray CT scanner for engineers. Our easy-to-use scanner and cloud-based software give engineers the ability to see their work clearly, inside and out, at an extremely affordable price. 

Engineers make million-dollar decisions every day, and they need tools that give them the greatest possible insight into their products. By offering unprecedented visibility into products, as well as AI-driven tools that highlight problems and generate quantitative data, Lumafield promises to revolutionize the way complex products are created, manufactured, and used across industries.

We are an impact driven company obsessed with providing the best value to our customers keeping their needs at the center of our evolution. Our team today includes world-class researchers and industrial designers, PhDs, creators, founders of successful startups, and zero egos. We are backed by top venture capital funds like Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, DCVC, Spark Capital, and others.

Our marketing program addresses both technical audiences made up of mechanical and manufacturing engineers, and broader popular audiences; our scans have repeatedly made it to the front pages of
Reddit
and
Hacker News
, been
featured by YouTube stars
, and even earned more than
a million views on TikTok
.

The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA and has an office in San Francisco, CA.

About the role:

As a core contributor to our engineering team, your goal is to improve system performance to give customers better data, more quickly, easily, and cheaply. You will work on a team to design and conduct experiments and simulations into customer-facing features that deliver tangible value. By partnering with our product team, you will use the data from your experiments to recommend design or operational improvements to hardware and software features and systems.

Engineering at Lumafield works in and between multiple disciplines. Lumafield's product is a complex hardware-software system. Systems-thinking and the ability to evaluate a problem and the possible solutions from multiple perspectives is essential.

What you'll do:

• Work on the core technology enabling Lumafield to deliver its novel CT scanners
• Design, execute, and refine experiments and simulations to validate new concepts, and improve current and future products
• Analyze test data to characterize performance and troubleshoot bottlenecks
• Build working prototypes and products for new hardware and software features that make a difference for engineering teams
• Convert scientific understanding into shipping features for customers

About you:

• Have an engineering or physics degree
• Exhibit insatiable curiosity for how things work
• Have a passion for solving technical puzzles; able to troubleshoot and get to the bottom of complex issues in hardware, software and sometimes a stubborn mix of both
• Motivated by moving fast, shipping, and getting feedback
• Can quickly learn and apply information in a new field of study
• Are organized and document your work clearly
• Strong team collaboration, communication and interpersonal skills
• Can handle large data sets with scientific computing in Python, MATLAB, C++, etc.

Bonus points for:

• A portfolio, blog, or github we can review
• Have conducted research, either experimental, modeling/simulation, or both
• Experience with image processing, signal processing, or frequency-domain analysis
• Prior startup experience

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time. All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

This role will be located in Lumafield's Boston office. You may be required to travel occasionally to Lumafield's San Francisco office, depending on local, state and federal regulations and recommendations pertaining to COVID-19.

Lumafield offers both competitive cash and equity compensation, as well as health and wellness, 401k, parental, vacation, commuter benefits, and more.

Lumafield is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, because the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Do you feel like your skills don't meet every single requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway – If you're excited about our technology, the opportunity, and are eager to learn more we'd love to hear from you 

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, genetic information or veteran status.

Reach out if you want to be a part of what we are building.