Electrical Engineer

Job Posting for Electrical and Controls Engineer

Intake: Rolling

Salary: $80,000 to $100,000 CAD (adjusted based on experience and qualifications)

Benefits: Extensive benefits plan that covers health and dental care and paid vacation days

Term: In-person; full-time

Schedule: Weekday, occasional weekends as needed

About Myo Palate

Myo Palate is a stem cell manufacturing company building the platforms that will produce the next generation of cell based products. Our work spans cultivated meat, real animal protein produced directly from cells, and iPSC based cell therapy platforms with applications in cancer and heart disease. The manufacturing challenges across these programs are shared: scalable, controlled, high quality cell production.

Solving them in one domain accelerates all of them.

We're a team of scientists and engineers leveraging modern biotechnology to make meat more sustainable, humane, and accessible, while building the foundation for the next generation of cellular therapies.

About the Position

We are hiring an Electrical and Controls Engineer who will own the electrical, embedded, and control systems workflow for custom bioprocessing equipment and devices. You will take hardware from electrical architecture and board design through firmware, control implementation, integration, commissioning, and the operator facing layer, and deliver systems that run reliably in daily use.

This is not a support role. You own the architecture, the boards, the firmware, the control loops, the panel, the interface, and the data layer. You will work closely with the lead scientist to define system requirements, but the methodology, the implementation, and the quality of the result are yours. There is no existing reference design to copy and no application note for what we are building.

Control here means real closed loop process control against sensor feedback, not sequencing actuators. It also means designing for the practical reality of precision instrumentation and power electronics sharing a chassis. If mixed signal design, control implementation, and grounding strategy are things you actually enjoy, this role will be interesting to you.

The equipment is in R&D and pilot use today, with a defined path toward a commercial product and, later, regulated manufacturing. Maturing early stage control hardware toward a production platform is part of the job, and we expect you to make that selection on technical grounds.

The pace is fast, the problems are hard, and the work demands focus and persistence. We are building something that has never been built before and we are looking for people who find that energizing, not exhausting.

About You

• Builder first. You would rather have a board on the bench than a specification in a folder
• Comfortable owning a system end to end and being the person accountable for whether it works
• A systematic debugger who isolates root cause rather than swapping parts until the symptom moves
• Fluent across the stack: analog, digital, firmware, control, and all the wiring in between
• Documents as you go, because someone else will eventually have to service, extend, and manufacture what you build
• Energized rather than blocked by problems that have no datasheet, no forum thread, and no prior art
• Clear communicator who can explain electrical constraints to scientists and process engineers in terms they can act on

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Robotics Engineering, Control and Automation Engineering, or a related field
• 3 or more years of hands-on engineering experience, or a demonstrated equivalent portfolio of independent build work
• Has personally taken at least one instrument or automation system from schematic through working, field debugged hardware
• Embedded systems and firmware development in C/C++ and Python across microcontrollers and Linux single board computers, including an understanding of real time constraints and when a control loop must be moved off a non deterministic operating system
• Closed loop control: PID implementation and tuning, sensor feedback, and handling of coupled multivariable loops
• Motor and drive control: servo, BLDC, or VFD drives with encoder feedback, plus stepper motors and drivers, pumps, and valves
• Analog signal conditioning and data acquisition: amplification, filtering, isolation, and ADC selection for process measurements
• PCB design through fabrication and assembly: schematic capture, layout, vendor handoff, assembly, bring up, and rework, using KiCad, Altium, or an equivalent tool
• Wiring, control panel build, electrical assembly, and full system integration
• Communication protocols at both the industrial and board level: at least one of Modbus, CAN, or EtherCAT, plus I2C, SPI, and UART
• HMI development and process data logging: operator interfaces, alarm handling, live trending, and structured run records
• Machine safety design: emergency stop architecture, interlocks, fault detection, and defined safe state behaviour
• Documentation discipline: schematics, wiring diagrams, BOMs, panel layouts, and revision control
• Independent troubleshooting and rapid iteration in a fast paced R&D environment

Preferred

• PLC programming in IEC 61131-3 structured text or ladder logic, using CODESYS, TwinCAT, TIA Portal, Studio 5000, or equivalent
• SCADA, historian, or time series database experience for process data
• EMI and EMC mitigation, grounding, and shielding in systems that combine power electronics with precision instrumentation
• Bioprocess or laboratory instrumentation experience: pumps, fluid paths, sterile connections, sanitary design
• 3D CAD for enclosure and panel layout coordination

About Your Responsibilities

A list of responsibilities is listed here. A more detailed list will be shared after an NDA is in place.

• Own the electrical and control architecture for custom bioprocessing equipment and devices
• Design, lay out, fabricate, assemble, and bring up custom PCBs for sensing, signal conditioning, actuation, and control
• Develop firmware and control software across microcontrollers and Linux single board computers, with explicit attention to real time behaviour
• Implement and tune closed loop control against sensor feedback, including coupled process variables
• Integrate and commission electromechanical hardware and process instrumentation
• Design analog front ends and data acquisition chains for process measurements
• Build and maintain the HMI and process data logging layer, including operator interface, alarm handling, trending, and structured, exportable run records
• Design and implement machine safety: emergency stop architecture, interlocks, fault detection, and safe state behaviour
• Own the EMI, grounding, and shielding strategy across the system
• Evaluate and select the production control platform, and migrate control software onto it
• Produce and maintain schematics, wiring diagrams, BOMs, panel layouts, and revision controlled documentation
• Move prototype builds toward serviceable, manufacturable hardware: design for manufacture, connectivity, cable management, and service access
• Collaborate with engineering and science colleagues on enclosure design, panel layout, and instrumentation placement
• Support the future transition toward a regulated manufacturing environment

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