Mechanical
- Mechanical design utilizing SolidWorks
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and CFD analysis
- Motion control utilizing belts/pulleys, leadscrews, linear bearings with steppers, servos and piezo drives
- Fluidics and pneumatics including all types of pumps, valves, pipettes, pneumatic cylinders, accumulators, vacuum pumps
- Thermal Analysis and design for incubators, chillers, thermal cyclers
- Systems Engineering
- Airflow analysis and testing
- Shock and vibration analysis and testing
- Design for reliability, serviceability and manufacturability
Optics
- Optical system and optical component design capabilities
- Sequential and non-sequential Zemax modeling
- Thermal and opto-mechanical Monte Carlo tolerance analysis
- Experience with fluorescence, chemiluminescence, absorbance, and Raman systems
- Experience with high resolution imaging systems
- Breadboard and prototype feasibility construction, testing and evaluation
- DFM and rapid transfer to manufacturing
- Optical component mounting and isolation
Electrical
- Hardware/firmware system architecture and design
- PCB layout and cable harness design
- Embedded system design (SBC, microcontroller, DSP/FPGA/CPLD)
- Electromechanical devices control and implementation (valves, pumps, sensors)
- Communication interfaces and protocols (serial, parallel, Ethernet, RF, IR, others)
- Robotic (motion) control systems and stepper implementation
- Thermal system development utilizing resistive heaters and TECs
- Electro-optical design (LED, laser, PMT, APD, others)
Software
- Quick turn prototypes for early stage feasibility/testing using Python scripting environments and command line interface tools on Linux or Windows
- Design and development of image processing algorithms, signal processing, and closed loop control algorithms for motion (positioning), temperature, pressure, power, etc.
- Experience with SW risk management and design controls which conform closely to ANSI/AAMI/IEC 62304 standards
- Experience using languages, operating systems and platforms to fit the customers device needs, such as: C, C++, C#, Linux, Windows IOT and cloud based technologies such as Azure and AWS
- Experience with the use of commercially available single-board computers (SBC) for instrument control
Consumables
- Microfluidics modeling & design of channels smaller than 1 mm
- Devices including chips, cartridges & micro-pneumatic systems
- Valves, pumps, centrifugation designs for microfluidics
- Surface modification for chemistry or fluidic effects
- On-board reagents: liquid and dried
- Prototype injection molding
- Blister packs: thermoformed and cold formed
- Foil and film sealing of cartridges and reagent vials
- Expertise in ultrasonic welding and leak testing
- Reagent vial design, liquid and dry, pierceable and peelable seals
- Vacuum oven for preliminary stability testing
