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# Senior Hardware Test Engineer at Beacon Biosignals

- **Company:** Beacon Biosignals
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beaconbiosignals/jobs/4449975009

## Job description

Beacon Biosignals is transforming precision medicine for the brain, from clinical development to clinical care. For Life Sciences partners, we offer the leading at-home EEG platform for clinical development of novel therapeutics for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. Our Diagnostics business is building the most comprehensive at-home platform for precision diagnostics, combining EEG and cardiopulmonary signals to deliver reimbursable assessments for sleep and central nervous system disorders. Together, we're changing the way patients are diagnosed and treated for any disorder that affects brain physiology.

In this exciting and challenging role as a test engineer specializing in hardware and firmware, you will contribute to the development of new and modified EEG and Home Sleep Test systems that meet application, business, customer, and regulatory requirements. You will be working in the Device Team, reporting to the VP of Device Systems and working closely with hardware, firmware, system, and software engineers. You are responsible for hardware characterization and verification tests, firmware unit tests, integration tests, verification tests, system integration, root cause analysis, and documentation to meet quality requirements.

Your goal as a hardware test engineer is to strive without reserve for the greatest quality and reliability in our products. To accomplish this goal, you will collaborate with other design, research, manufacturing and quality colleagues to develop products from concept to commercialization. You will contribute to product idealization, development, integration verification, and manufacturing.  Additionally, you will document design and production processes in accordance with applicable product development procedures, quality and regulatory requirements.

Beacon's robust asynchronous work practices ensure a first-class remote work experience, but we also have in-person office hubs available located in Boston, New York, and Paris. This role is required to work from the Boston office on average approximately 3 days per week with flexible days and hours.

What success looks like:

- Develop and execute device testing in accordance with Beacon’s QMS.
- Develop and document test plans, test protocols, and test scripts for embedded systems, including hardware, firmware, and software, based on design specifications and requirements.
- Develop and maintain test procedures, fixtures, and equipment.
- Conduct functional, integration, system, and regression testing on hardware and firmware.
- Work closely with hardware and firmware engineers to troubleshoot and resolve product issues.
- Ensure products meet industry standards, safety, and regulatory requirements (e.g., FDA, CE, 60601).
- Implement process improvements and test automation to enhance product quality and testing efficiency.

What you will bring:

- Education: BS in engineering or related field.
- Work Experience (post-graduate): 5+ years of professional engineering experience with a BS degree or 3+ years of professional engineering experience with an MS degree or above.
- You have experience with writing detailed technical specifications and documentation, including requirements, test plans, protocols, and reports.
- You can read and follow electrical schematics.
- You have experience with embedded software that runs on a real-time operating system (RTOS).
- You have experience with scripting languages such as Python.
- You have experience with troubleshooting, debugging, and root cause analysis of hardware and firmware issues in electromechanical systems.
- You have experience with tools like Git/JIRA and platforms like GitHub.
- Preferably, you have knowledge of design controls and regulations for medical devices.

Salary ranges are determined using current market compensation data for this role and adjusted based on experience, skills, and location. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes equity, PTO and other benefits.

At Beacon, we've found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example. As such, we're always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and - most of all - a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients. We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves higher impact.

## About Beacon Biosignals

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Beacon Biosignals is an AI-driven precision medicine platform that collects, integrates, and analyzes EEG data to accelerate drug development and power at-home sleep diagnostics.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – over $97 M raised as of April 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA (with additional offices in Paris, New York, Cleveland, and remote)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Jacob Donoghue, MD, PhD (CTO & Co‑Founder); additional co‑founders not fully disclosed in available sources.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Neuroscience / Digital Health / AI‑powered diagnostics and clinical‑trial services.
- **Target customers**: Biopharmaceutical companies (B2B) for clinical‑trial support; sleep physicians, neurologists, and primary‑care providers for at‑home sleep testing (B2B diagnostics).
- **Mission**: “To unlock the power of brain data to transform how we diagnose, treat, and understand neurological and psychiatric conditions.”

## Products & Services
- **Waveband EEG Headband**: FDA 510(k)‑cleared, wireless headband (formerly Dreem 3S) that collects clinical‑grade sleep‑staging data. Designed for at‑home use in both clinical trials and clinical practice. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Beacon Datastore**: Cloud‑based storage and analysis platform for biosignal data. Supports version‑controlled, reproducible analyses and integrates with the rest of Beacon’s products. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Clinical Study Operations**: End‑to‑end support for biopharma trials, including device deployment, site training, compliance monitoring, and data‑quality review. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Scientific Services**: Expert analysis and interpretation of EEG data – spanning biomarker discovery, trial‑design advice, translational insights, and comprehensive reporting. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Beacon HQ**: Centralized portal for trial management, dataset exploration, cohort filtering, and site‑performance tracking. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding > $97 M (Series B upsized, announced April 6, 2026). The platform has analyzed **2 M+ hours of EEG** and completed **500 K+ home sleep tests** across **40+ clinical trials**. [beacon.bio](https://beacon.bio/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors not named in available sources; **Harmony Biosciences** announced as a partner (Dec 2025). [beacon.bio](https://beacon.bio/)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Selected as one of **Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026**. [beacon.bio](https://beacon.bio/)
  - Series B upsized to over $97 M in April 2026.
  - Expanding at‑home sleep testing (500 K+ tests completed) and building the world’s largest clinically validated neurophysiology dataset.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest clinically validated neurophysiology dataset** (2 M+ hours of analyzed EEG), providing depth and scale for biomarker discovery and AI model training.
- **End‑to‑end platform** covering the full drug‑development lifecycle – from an FDA‑cleared wearable device to cloud storage, analytics, and clinical‑trial services.
- **AI‑powered algorithms** for sleep staging, epileptiform characterization, and standardized spectral analysis, cleared under FDA 510(k).
- **Full regulatory and quality infrastructure** (SOC 2 Type II, US DPF/GDPR compliant, GCP‑backed security) that reduces risk for pharma partners.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling at‑home diagnostics**: Increasing the reach of the Waveband headband and home sleep testing services to neurologists, sleep physicians, and primary‑care settings.
- **Deepening biopharma partnerships**: Expanding clinical‑trial support from Phase 1 through Phase 4 and into post‑market studies.
- **Building the largest neurodiagnostic dataset**: Continuing to grow the Beacon Datastore to enable more precise, personalized therapies for brain‑health conditions.
- **Advancing AI‑driven neurotechnology**: Leveraging machine learning to discover novel biomarkers and develop objective clinical endpoints (e.g., hypersomnia partnership with Harmony Biosciences).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven culture**: “We’re working to change how brain health is measured, understood, and treated.” Employees see direct impact on getting treatments to patients faster. [beacon.bio/careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
- **Flexible work**: Headquarters in Boston (with offices in Paris, New York, and Cleveland) and a globally distributed team; many roles are remote‑eligible. [beacon.bio/careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
- **Values**: “Culture is a Team Sport,” “Commitment to Excellence,” and “We protect time” – emphasizing collaboration, rigor, and work‑life balance. [beacon.bio/careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
- **Growth opportunities**: 19 open positions (as of search date) across Analytics & ML, Clinical Diagnostics, Platform Engineering, Life Sciences, Product & Design, Hardware Engineering, and more. [Greenhouse job board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beaconbiosignals)
- **Team composition**: A mix of neuroscientists, machine‑learning engineers, clinicians, and biopharma veterans – creating a rich, interdisciplinary environment.

## Sources
1. [beacon.bio – Homepage](https://beacon.bio/)
2. [beacon.bio – About](https://beacon.bio/about)
3. [beacon.bio – Products & Services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
4. [beacon.bio – Careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
5. [Greenhouse – Beacon Biosignals Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beaconbiosignals)

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