Engineering Lead | AI | Photonics | HealthTech | Deep Tech Startup

About your Role

• Technical & site leadership: Provide handson technical direction and manage daytoday engineering operations; ensure engineering goals map to company strategy and product roadmap.

• Build & lead the team: Assemble mentor and inspire a highperforming multidisciplinary group across hardware software optics/photonics systems and datafostering innovation accountability and resilience.

• Interdisciplinary collaboration: Act as the principal technical liaison with scientists/assay developers; translate clinical and biological needs into robust engineering solutions.

• Crosssite integration: Bridge our UK and international sites - standardize practices promote knowledge sharing and keep priorities aligned.

• Project execution & delivery: Drive programs from concept to verification/validation; define milestones allocate resources manage risks/RAIDs and land reliable systems on time.

• Innovation & resilience: Bring firsthand startup experience to inform pragmatic decisions; lead through iteration cycles and setbacks with a calm datadriven approach.

• Regulatory & quality alignment: Ensure engineering practices support ISO 13485 ISO 15189 IVDR and UKCA expectations; partner closely with QA/RA on design controls and documentation.

This role is based in London and will collaborate daily with teams in the UK and abroad.

Qualifications :

Technical / Professional Skills

• Bachelors or Masters in Nanoscience Biomedical Optical Electrical Physics Engineering (or related); PhD a plus.

• 6 years leading engineering or product development ideally in medical devices/diagnostics/lifescience instrumentation.

• Proven track record building and managing multidisciplinary teams (hardware software data science and life sciences) in fastpaced environments.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with clinical scientists/assay developers/healthcare partners.

• Deep expertise in at least one core engineering area and broad fluency across optics/photonics; AI/ML exposure is a strong plus.

• Exceptional communication and program leadership skills; comfortable spanning technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

• Familiarity with ISO 13485 IVDR and UKCA in product development (ISO 15189 exposure desirable).

• Startup experience (including learning from failure/recovery cycles) strongly preferred.

Cultural Skills

• Builders mindset with high ownership urgency and empathy.

• Lowego highly collaborative leader who elevates others.

• Missiondriven and patientcentered.

Additional Information :

iLoF in a nutshell

As personalized medicine becomes the norm scientists patients and healthcare systems worldwide face massive barriers in providing the right treatment to the right patient.

Recognized by CB Insights and Financial Times as one of the most promising Digital Health companies in the world iLoF is building an AI-powered platform capable of transforming precision medicine.

Our goal is to become the platform that democratizes access to personalized medicine for millions of people living with complex diseases around the globe.

Thanks to our proprietary optical fingerprint library of disease biomarkers and biological profiles we can offer personalized patient screening and stratification in a faster and more affordable way saving up to 40% of the cost and 70% of the time while enabling a more human patient experience.

Supported by leading institutions like Microsoft Ventures Mayfield and the Oxford University iLoF is currently focusing on validating its platform technology in one of the biggest challenges of our times: Alzheimers while maintaining ongoing verticals on Digestive Cancer Stroke and Infectious diseases.

Our Team

We are a mix of scientists entrepreneurs and inventors based in Oxford and Porto with a passion for healthcare!

Recognized by CB Insights as one of the most promising Digital Health companies in the world and by the Financial Times as a Transformational Business in Healthcare iLoF has been regularly featured in leading outlets like Tech Crunch Wired and Sifted and listed as a rising star in AI-Driven Drug Discovery Health Screening & Data Analytics.

What we value

• A Be Kind attitude is the main guideline within iLoF

• A hand in the hammer and another free to support your co-workers as a true team player

• An honest and egoless attitude towards discussions and critics working in good faith

• The braveness to speak your heart in any situation

• Through words or actions be always sure to make a difference at any moment!

• Be proud to drive your responsibilities to success and help others do the same embracing ownership!

Perks

• An exciting future with a deep-tech company selected by Financial Times and CB Insights as one of the most transformative companies in the world

• A highpaced flexible environment: adaptable working hours strong remote work culture

• A stimulating atmosphere with room for creativity fastpaced fun and energetic startup with a friendly culture

• Weekly happy hours with amazing food and drinks

• Free coffee and snacks

• Private healthcare insurance (for employees; contractor benefits to be agreed)

• The opportunity to work with a worldclass talented team and potentially change healthcare as we know it for millions of patients living with complex diseases around the globe

We share a passion for being part of a mission that matters and we are always looking for curious and collaborative people who share our values and want to be part of our journey.

If that sounds like a fit for you click the apply button and join us.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time