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Diagnostics For All is hiring! If you are enthusiastic about improving lives in the developing world through the development of better technology and enjoy varied and engaging work, please send us your resume and a cover letter here. Please note in the body of the email whether you are looking for a full-time position, part-time position, internship, and/or volunteer opportunity.

Diagnostics For All (DFA) is an exciting non-profit organization focused on improving global health by creating and commercializing very low cost, easy-to-use, point-of-care medical diagnostic devices for underserved populations in the developing world. Conveniently located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, we are creating a new generation of diagnostic devices using elegantly simple paper-microfluidics technology originally developed in the lab of Professor George Whitesides at Harvard University. DFA has received several grants to develop this technology from varied sources including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, and DARPA. Please learn more at www.dfa.org.

Product Development Engineer (Job code: PDE 001)

DFA is a group of committed scientists working collaboratively on number of projects from infectious diseases to vaccine surveillance to novel nucleic acid technologies. DFA has a series of diagnostics tests in various stages of development; some tests are in concept stage, others are working prototypes and others are near completion with field tested clinical data behind them. The atmosphere is informal but intense, with a real sense of urgency.

DFA now needs to convert these late-stage tests into deliverable products, with the first product – a liver function test – due out this year

Some Questions:

Can you rapidly come up to speed on the liver function test first – understand the biochemical reaction, the paper based platform, the mechanics of the platform?
Are you interested in solving problems of minute detail, prepared to “go to the bench” if necessary, seek solutions from colleagues, consultants and the wider community, and take personal ownership?
Be able to design the minimum necessary experiments to optimize and validate the design for production? And then deal with inevitable set-backs?
Have you built a product before?
Are you comfortable collaborating with a manufacturing sub-contractor to get a manufacturing line up and running, or modify an existing manufacturing line?
Will you recognize equipment gaps if present, specify equipment and negotiate with suppliers for laboratory and test equipment necessary to complete this project?
Can you work within an embryonic quality system and help build that quality system in to an appropriate one for DFA? Be able to document a Design Control process and follow it?
In the future, take on wholly new tests with wholly new challenges and take them too into production?

If you can answer yes to some of these questions and you are not put-off by them, then we would love to hear from you. The right answers to these questions are more important than an MS or a PhD, but one of these could help you. Ideally in the past you might also have shepherded a product through the 510k FDA process, or had experience of the clinical studies necessary. None of this would you have to do on your own, you would be supported by a close knit team. If you are interested in an exciting opportunity to change the way health care is delivered in much of the world, contact us at careers@dfa.org. Please reference PDE-001 in the subject line.

Diagnostics For All is an equal opportunity employer.