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title: 'Senior Engineer - Biomedical Systems at e184'
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# Senior Engineer - Biomedical Systems at e184

- **Company:** e184
- **Location:** Portland, OR
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/e184/edc7e39f-6b65-42f8-9490-0480bf2c0d5b

## Job description

## About us

[e184](https://www.e184.com/) is a biotechnology research company dedicated to overcoming the limits of human biology. One of our programs in reproductive technologies develops ectogenesis - the ability to support human development outside the body - to expand reproductive freedom and redefine what is possible in medicine. Our mission is to remove the biological constraints that limit who can safely carry a pregnancy, enabling new pathways to parenthood for individuals facing medical risk, infertility, or physiological barriers to gestation.

We operate at the intersection of biology, engineering, and computational science, building integrated platforms that combine advanced tissue models, adaptive culture systems, and automated experimental workflows to understand and recreate the conditions required for healthy human gestation beyond the uterus.

## Role overview

As a Senior Engineer at e184, you will lead the design and development of software systems that integrate and control the experimental hardware enabling ex utero gestation. Your work will focus on building intuitive, reliable interfaces that unify perfusion systems, continuous imaging platforms, environmental controls, and monitoring infrastructure into a cohesive operational platform. This includes the control logic, feedback loops, and data infrastructure that keep automated perfusion, fluid management, and environmental systems running reliably over multi-week experiments, not just the interfaces researchers use to monitor them.

You will own software development from interface design through system integration and deployment, working closely with engineers, biologists, and hardware teams to translate complex experimental workflows into robust, user-centered control systems. This is a highly hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys bridging UI design, real-time control systems, and scientific experimentation in a fast-moving startup environment where software reliability directly impacts biological outcomes.

What you'll do:

- Design unified control interfaces: Build the interfaces researchers use to monitor and control perfusion, imaging, and environmental systems from a single platform, on-site and remotely.

- Integrate and automate experimental hardware: Build software that communicates with pumps, sensors, imaging devices, and environmental controllers, and automates fluid, reagent, and waste management across the platform.

- Develop closed-loop perfusion control: Design control systems that regulate flow, pressure, oxygenation, and temperature against physiological targets, evolving toward predictive, adaptive optimization as experimental data accumulates.

- Develop real-time monitoring and data infrastructure: Build dashboards and the underlying data pipelines that capture, store, and surface sensor and experimental data from long-running runs.

- Implement experiment automation and scheduling: Design workflows that support automated protocols and reproducible system operation.

- Ensure system reliability and safety: Build fault detection, error handling, and recovery mechanisms that keep long-duration experiments stable.

- Collaborate across disciplines and establish software standards: Work with hardware engineers and scientists to translate experimental needs into software architecture, and contribute to code, documentation, and testing practices that scale.

Core requirements:

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience spanning UI/UX, real-time systems, and/or controls engineering

- Strong experience designing and implementing complex user interfaces for technical or scientific applications

- Proficiency in modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, or similar)

- Experience interfacing software with hardware systems, sensors, or laboratory instrumentation

- Experience designing systems for real-time monitoring or device control

- Experience designing closed-loop or feedback control systems (e.g., PID, model-based, or adaptive control) for physical or biological processes

- Experience designing data acquisition pipelines and database infrastructure for continuous sensor or time-series data

- Strong understanding of software architecture and maintainable system design

- Ability to independently drive software projects from concept through deployment

- Strong collaboration and communication skills in interdisciplinary environments

- Comfort working in a fast-paced, iterative startup environment

You'll stand out with:

- Experience developing software for laboratory automation, robotics, medical devices, or scientific instrumentation

- Experience integrating imaging systems or real-time data streams

- Familiarity with control systems, hardware communication protocols (e.g., serial, USB, TCP/IP, MQTT)

- Experience building data visualization dashboards for live experimental monitoring

- Experience designing safety-critical or long-running control systems

- Experience with model predictive control (MPC), adaptive control, or applied machine learning for process optimization or anomaly detection

- Experience with time-series databases (e.g., InfluxDB, TimescaleDB) for continuous experimental monitoring

- Prior startup or early-stage technology development experience

Why e184?

- Unrivaled impact: Your work directly enables technology that transforms human fertility and reproductive medicine.

- Full-spectrum growth: Gain exposure to the entire lifecycle of discovery. From screening to mechanistic validation.

- Best of both worlds: Experience the creative chaos of an early-stage startup with the stability of a well-capitalized company.

- Elite collaboration: Work alongside a world-class team who are as driven as you are.

The perks

- Competitive salary + equity participation is considered

- State-of-the-art facility in Portland metro area

- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k) with company match

- 20 days PTO + 11 paid holidays

Disclaimer The above job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Responsibilities and duties may change or be adjusted to meet the needs of the company, and additional duties may be assigned as necessary. The job description is subject to change at any time at the discretion of e184.

## About e184

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: e184 is a biotechnology and neurotechnology research company working to overcome the limits of human biology, focusing on reproductive technologies (ectogenesis, in vitro gametogenesis) and non-implantable brain-computer interfaces.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funding not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Portland, Oregon, United States (with additional offices in the Cayman Islands and a BCI Lab in the United Kingdom)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly named (key executives include Aleksei Mikhalchenko, Chief Scientific Officer; Gavin Morley, CEO of BCI Lab; Pablo Hurtado González, COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Biotechnology Research, Neurotechnology
- **Target customers**: B2B (research institutions, medical partners) and direct impact on individuals (future reproductive medicine, human-AI integration)
- **Mission or purpose**: To overcome the limits of human biology – beginning with reproduction and following life’s logic into symbiosis and beyond.

## Products & Services
- **Repro Lab (Ectogenesis & In Vitro Gametogenesis)**: Research and development of technology to support human development outside the body (ectogenesis) and create functional gametes from other cell types (IVG). Aimed at expanding reproductive freedom and enabling new pathways to parenthood. [e184.com/repro](https://www.e184.com/repro)
- **BCI Lab (Brain-Computer Interface)**: Development of a non-implantable brain-computer interface based on advanced sensors, intended to enable fluid human-AI collaboration and extend cognition, bandwidth, and memory. [e184.com/bci](https://e184.com/bci)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 14 employees (as of 2026), with +100% year-over-year headcount growth
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed (the company describes itself as “well-capitalized” in job postings)
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid team expansion (doubled headcount in the last year); active hiring across multiple scientific and engineering roles; distributed workforce across 6 countries (US, UK, Denmark, Cyprus, Mexico, Germany)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Pioneering focus**: Combines two frontier fields – ectogenesis/IVG and non-implantable BCIs – under one company, creating unique cross-disciplinary synergies.
- **Non-implantable BCI approach**: Targets true brain–AI integration without invasive surgery, potentially unlocking broader adoption and scalability.
- **Mission-driven science**: Tackles fundamental biological constraints (reproduction, cognition) that few startups address, attracting top talent from institutions like Insitro, Institut Pasteur, and Washington State University.

## Strategic Focus
- **Reproductive technology**: Advancing ectogenesis and in vitro gametogenesis to remove biological barriers to parenthood.
- **Neurotechnology**: Building scalable, non-implantable brain-computer interfaces for fluid human-AI collaboration.
- **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring scientists, engineers, and industry professionals in both Portland (Repro Lab) and the UK (BCI Lab).

## Why Work Here
- **Unrivaled impact**: Directly contribute to technology that could transform human fertility and human-AI interaction.
- **Full-spectrum growth**: Exposure to the entire lifecycle of discovery – from screening to mechanistic validation.
- **Elite collaboration**: Work alongside a world-class, highly driven team in a fast-paced startup environment.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary + equity; state-of-the-art facilities in Portland metro area; comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k) with company match; 20 days PTO + 11 paid holidays. [jobs.lever.co/e184](https://jobs.lever.co/e184/3fbf4093-2621-4d4d-badf-7cf64ef7d70a)
- **Work policy**: Likely on-site for lab roles (Portland for Repro Lab, UK for BCI Lab); remote/hybrid not specified.

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com/company/e184](https://linkedin.com/company/e184)
2. [e184.com](https://www.e184.com)
3. [e184.com/repro](https://www.e184.com/repro)
4. [e184.com/bci](https://e184.com/bci)
5. [jobs.lever.co/e184](https://jobs.lever.co/e184/3fbf4093-2621-4d4d-badf-7cf64ef7d70a)

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