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Senior / Principal Engineer for Implant Electronics & Systems

• Houston, TX
• Full-time
• Senior / Principal

About MCN

Maximum Connectivity Neurotech, Inc. is building next-generation implantable neurotechnology to maximize the connection between the brain and the external world. We are developing high-channel-count, neural interface systems that combine cutting-edge flexible electrodes, implant electronics, recording and stimulation ASICs, surgical delivery tools, preclinical neuroscience, and computational models.

MCN is an early-stage, venture-backed neurotech startup based in Houston, TX. We are building a small, deeply technical team where early hires will shape the company’s architecture, engineering culture, and path toward clinical translation.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior / Principal Engineer for Implant Electronics & Systems to help define, build, and integrate MCN’s implantable neural interface platform.

This role combines implant electronics, embedded systems, and system architecture. You will primarily work to establish neural recording and stimulation functions based on custom ASICs, including safety circuits, firmware, data acquisition, external hardware, test systems, and system-level integration. You will help translate MCN’s technical and clinical goals into engineering requirements, prototypes, verification plans, and clinical-ready systems.

This is a high-ownership role for someone who can move between system design, circuit-level implementation, firmware debugging, benchtop testing, preclinical support, and medical-device documentation.

What You’ll Do

• Define and develop electronics architecture for MCN’s implantable neural interface platform.
• Design and prototype systems for neural recording, electrical stimulation, signal conditioning, power management, safety monitoring, and device control.
• Develop embedded firmware for real-time stimulation control, data acquisition, device state management, timing, logging, and safety interlocks.
• Build and debug PCB-based prototypes, benchtop systems, preclinical test systems, and hardware-software interfaces.
• Translate product development goals into system requirements, interface definitions, design tradeoffs, and verification plans.
• Work closely with electrode/interface, packaging, mechanical/surgical delivery, software, preclinical, quality, and regulatory teams.
• Develop automated test routines for impedance, stimulation output, charge balance, noise, timing, thermal behavior, power, reliability, and failure modes.
• Support acute and chronic animal studies by ensuring reliable device operation, experiment control, data acquisition, and troubleshooting.
• Help define future implant electronics architecture, including high-channel-count stimulation/recording systems, ASIC requirements, telemetry, external controllers, and wearable components.
• Contribute to design-control documentation, including design inputs, outputs, risk analysis, verification methods, traceability, and test reports.
• Identify system-level risks early and drive practical mitigation plans.

You May Be a Fit If You Have

• BS, MS, or PhD in electrical engineering, computer engineering, biomedical engineering, neuroengineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience for Senior level, or 8+ years for Principal level, in complex electronics, embedded systems, medical devices, implantable devices, electrophysiology systems, robotics, aerospace, semiconductor, or other high-reliability hardware.
• Strong experience with embedded electronics.
• Experience with PCB design, schematic capture, board bring-up, debugging, test automation, and hardware validation.
• Embedded firmware experience in C/C++, microcontrollers, real-time systems, FPGAs, embedded Linux, or similar platforms.
• Experience with Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW, or similar tools for test automation, data acquisition, and analysis.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity, grounding, low-noise design, power systems, ADC/DAC systems, timing, and electrical safety.
• Ability to reason across system-level tradeoffs, including channel count, signal quality, stimulation safety, power, heat, size, reliability, manufacturability, and surgical usability.
• Comfort working hands-on in an early-stage environment where requirements, prototypes, and processes are built iteratively.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across hardware, software, neuroscience, preclinical, and quality/regulatory teams.

Strong Plus

• Experience with neural recording, neurostimulation, BCI systems, DBS, cochlear implants, retinal prostheses, cardiac rhythm devices, bioelectronic medicine, electrophysiology, or active implantable medical devices.
• Experience with low-noise biopotential recording, high-channel-count neural data acquisition, current-controlled stimulation, charge balancing, stimulation artifacts, stimulation safety.
• Experience developing benchtop or preclinical systems for acute or chronic animal studies.
• Experience with ASIC architecture, RF/wireless telemetry, inductive power, BLE, implant communication, or wearable medical-device systems.
• Familiarity with FDA-regulated medical-device development, design controls, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 60601, IEC 62304, or active implantable device standards.
• Experience writing system requirements, interface control documents, verification protocols, risk analyses, or design history file documentation.
• Experience in a startup or early-stage R&D environment.

What We Value

• Evidence-based and technical rigor.
• First-principles engineering judgment.
• Hands-on debugging ability.
• Clear documentation and disciplined experimentation.
• Ownership across messy, cross-functional problems.
• Willingness to build both prototypes and the engineering process around them.
• High standards for safety, reliability, and eventual clinical translation.

Why Join MCN

This is a foundational technical leadership role in which you will help define the electronics and system architecture for MCN’s neural interface platform from the beginning. You will not be maintaining a mature product or optimizing a narrow subsystem. You will help build the core system that connects implantable electrodes, recording and stimulation electronics, firmware, external hardware, preclinical experiments, and clinical translation. Your work will directly influence device performance, safety, chronic reliability, regulatory readiness, and the company’s long-term technical direction.

Compensation and Benefits

MCN offers competitive salary, meaningful equity participation, benefits, and the opportunity to help build a neurotechnology company from the ground up. Compensation will depend on experience, seniority, and role scope.

Equal Opportunity

MCN is an equal opportunity employer. We value engineering excellence, technical rigor, intellectual honesty, and diverse perspectives. We encourage candidates from medical devices, neuroscience, semiconductors, robotics, aerospace, electrophysiology, and other high-reliability technical fields to apply.