Join the Biospectal Team

Passionate blood pressure experts

We're on a Mission to revolutionize patient monitoring!

We are pioneering the new field of mobile remote patient monitoring (MRPM) to democratize blood pressure monitoring and management at global scale using ubiquitous mobile devices already in our pocket.  With OptiBP™ (CE EU MDR)  phones around the world are becoming convenient, connected blood pressure monitors.

We’re looking for brilliant and talented “think big” innovators  to join our passionate and creative multinational team. Our HQ is in Lausanne, Switzerland with a remote presence in California/Silicon Valley.

For current open positions or to respond to listings here, email us at [email protected]

Due to the high number of applications received only short listed candidates will be contacted. Thanks for your understanding

Current Open Positions

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Research Engineer – Embedded Systems

Location: Switzerland

Status: Full-time (100%) employment

Reports to: Head of R&D

Are you passionate about solving one of the most exciting and sophisticated medical challenges of our time using advanced sensing and machine learning methods?

Your work will positively impact one third of the world’s population and have a direct impact on our future product. In this key position, you will drive the development of customised hardware that complements Biospectal’s software product offerings.

Our R&D team is growing, and we are looking for an Embedded Systems Engineer (m/f) to help us develop awesome products that users love! You will be responsible for the development and design of hardware components, conceptualization tools, algorithm implementation, internal and external communication, and resource management to ensure best-in-class execution of regulatory-compliant medical grade products.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and develop systems for multimodal sensing applications.
  • Manage all phases of hardware development, including user and design requirements generation, detailed design development, design of verification procedures and device testing.
  • Contribute to the development of firmware and software for medical-grade sensing platforms.
  • Design, develop and test signal processing and machine learning algorithms to improve our blood pressure estimation modules.
  • Create detailed documentation for development & deployment processes.
  • Manage academic collaborations and mentor students.
  • Collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders (engineers, software team, medical experts, subcontractors, quality managers, etc.).

Requirements & Skills

  • PhD in electronics/microsystems engineering/computer science or similar.
  • Strong understanding of hardware design and architecture, preferably for biosensing systems.
  • Extensive skills in writing of firmware, including design, testing, optimization, and validation procedures.
  • Experience with coding and basic understanding of statistical modelling/machine learning is required (Python)
  • Experience with signal processing and optical sensing is a major plus.
  • Experience with medical device regulations is a plus.
  • Experience with software development is a plus.
  • Excellent proactive communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Aptitude for independent project management in a dynamic start-up environment.
  • Aptitude for innovation, and the initiative to drive change, passion for quality and continuous improvement.

The Ideal Candidate

This position is ideally suited for a result-driven, rigorous, growth-oriented professional who thrives in a dynamic start-up environment, being involved in all aspects of technical, product, and business development. The candidate should have a proven track record in hardware design and firmware development, ideally with biosensing systems. Proficiency in coding, machine learning, and signal processing is complemented by excellent communication skills, allowing seamless collaboration with various stakeholders. If you are passionate about transformative healthcare technologies, and bring a proactive approach to project management, we invite you to join our team and be a driving force in shaping the future of healthcare.

Only candidates residing in Switzerland or eligible to work in Switzerland will be considered. 

All applications must include a CV and cover letter and should be submitted to [email protected]

Chief Commercial Officer

Location: Switzerland, EU, or US

Status: Full-time (100%) employment

Reports to: CEO

Are you passionate about revolutionizing patient centered care through empowering individuals to track their health with remote monitoring mobile technology?

We are looking for an experience yet entrepreneurial sales and business development leader who is adept at transforming med tech innovation into compelling and valued, high value revenue generating, multichannel distribution strategy and implementation.

Your work can impact a third of the world’s population suffering from hypertension and will directly drive our growth. This is a key executive role to expand of Biospectal’s multi-channel commercial activity focusing on partnerships in health care delivery systems. You will tackle stimulating, novel situations every day and have the opportunity to work at the intersection of Biospectal and its business partners and customers.

The ideal candidate has experience in Europe but also internationally in the US and APAC/EMEA.

This executive team member reports to the CEO and Co-Founder (USA/San Francisco Area-based). You will work closely with the CEO and leadership team and coordinate with the broader team to create commercial and business development strategies that are optimized for both short-term and long-term.

You should have experience and proven success in driving B2B and B2C partnerships MedTech and health innovation, with a documented understanding of new opportunities and challenges in bringing software products to market, in particular via telehealth, pharma, and insurance, and IoT/mobile solutions.  You will be highly adaptable and able to translate the clinical research , AI, and machine learning based software into a compelling commercial proposition to build sales and scale customers to tap an unprecedented global market opportunity. You will also be adept at evolving the revenue generating strategy and execution, as well as people, process, and tools to support them we grow.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop superior customer selling propositions across products and services based on current and future evolving business needs 
  • Develop and implement sales process, organization, tools and strategies for current and new customer and business partner segments across a range of players in the health delivery ecosystem
  • Define and execute a multigenerational strategy go to market process
  • Generate new business leads, play an integral role in pitches, and lead onboarding and retention and expansion of new client accounts
  • Build, lead, and scale sales, business development, and customer success teams
  • Drive quantified performance and revenue generation success by developing and driving objectives, key metrics, and team management across the organization and tying compensation and promotions achieving measurable revenue-generating goals
  • Build a high performing sales team to execute end to end sales including outreach, pitching, getting alignment, negotiating engagements, terms, and contracts, closing and implementing deals, and expanding the value of the customer portfolio
  • Act as key interface between the clients and multidisciplinary internal teams
  • Partner with management on budgeting and planning and set revenue targets with key performance indicators
  • Ensure a robust after-sales process to deliver strong customer engagement
  • Build strong and collaborative relationships with other internal stakeholders
  • Engender a strong ethos and team spirit, building an inspired, cohesive, and collaborative culture
  • Maintain thought leadership by monitoring market, technology, and medical trends, and provide regular competitive tracking and analysis
  • Drive business growth through representing Biospectal to inside and outside stakeholders and customers, as well as speaking and publishing at events including  pitches, conferences, and other business growth opportunities

Requirements & Skills

  • MBA or equivalent, or graduate degree in life sciences or equivalent M.D. or M.Sc. degree
  • Strong success record in a senior sales leadership role, including prior experience as a Chief Commercial Officer and/or Business Development Director
  • Demonstrated success in building, scaling, and leading high performing sales organization
  • Strong consultative sales experience and ability to prospect and manage senior level relationships 
  • Proven international business development success in selling complex healthcare or healthcare IT SaaS products, MedTech or pharma services, with deep understanding of customer needs
  • Track record of establishing successful partnerships and bringing new products to market
  • Prolific business development relationships insurance, pharmaceutical, and health software and mobile tech industry
  • Experience developing client-focused, differentiated, and achievable solutions
  • Ability to communicate, present compellingly and influence all levels of the organizations, including executive and C-level
  • Strong account management and relationship building skills
  • Natural leadership style with ability to build and lead a team without direct line of reporting
  • High social intelligence with collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical working style
  • Self-driven organized personality who requires minimal guidance
  • Strong business acumen and creative problem-solving aptitude that can deliver on financial targets
  • Ablity to thrive in a dynamic and evolving operational and business landscape
  • Motivating and inspiring personality with a strong ability to influence others to achieve results
  • Excellent listening, negotiation, and presentation skills
  • Native level English spoken and writing skills, with German, French and target market languages highly desirable
  • Strong cross-cultural communication skills

The Ideal Candidate

Ideally suited to agile, growth oriented senior professionals who understand the rigor, methods, and tools required for scaling a large organization but also who have worked in a fast-paced startup environment. This involves a background understanding and proven execution and/or consulting relationship in mature corporate structures, process and management combined with demonstrated execution evidencing knowledge of multi-generational growth, flexibility, and iterative workstyle – while at the same time having evangelized and sold new-to-the-world, disruptive products and services at a recognized successful start-up or scale company.

All applications (CV + cover letter) should be submitted to [email protected]  

Software Development Manager

Location: Switzerland, EU

Status: Full-time, with work permit for CH & EU

Reports to: CEO

Are you passionate about solving one of the most exciting and sophisticated challenges in medicine today using advanced machine learning methods?

Your work will positively impact one third of the world’s population and has a direct impact on our core business. This is a key executive role to drive expansion of Biospectal’s commercial activity in B2C and B2B channels, with a focus on partnerships in health care delivery systems.

Our software team is growing, and we are looking for a Software Development Manager to join us and help lead the building of awesome products that users love! The Software Development Manager will be responsible for front end and back end software development processes, tools, intra- and extra-company communication and resource management to ensure top class execution of regulatory-compliant SaMD products.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage dev process from start to finish (SW requirements, design, development, testing and deployment)
  • Create Software development & deployment processes SOPs for Biospectal’s QMS
  • Build and manage a team of internal and external SW/QA engineers. (Hire and train, ensure compliance)
  • Actively own and manage resolution of  technical deliverables, issues  and roadblocks with customer support and product management.
  • Work with internal and external stakeholders (product managers, engineers, quality managers, consultants as relevant) to ensure OptiBP’s technical file meets all requirements and is delivered on time and on  budget.

Requirements & Skills

  • B.S. or M.S. Degree in Computer Science.
  • 3+ years of experience in medical device software.
  • Strong understanding of the software development process and regulatory requirements (ISO 62304, ISO 13485, FDA 21 CFR Part 820).
  • 3+ years of experience in a management role.
  • Excellent proactive communication and interpersonal skills – great cross-functional and executive directed communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team (product, quality, data, customer support).
  • Experience and proven ability to work through rapid iteration methodologies (lean, agile, etc.)
  • Creative, pragmatic approach to  effectively  solving for short and long term objectives and business needs.
  • Experience with developing products with software/data/hardware interface architecture is a plus.

The Ideal Candidate

Ideally suited to a results driven, agile, growth oriented professional who understands and “lives” the rigor, methods, and tools required for scaling a large organization but also who have worked in a fast-paced startup environment. This involves a background understanding and proven execution and/or consulting relationship in mature corporate structures, process and management combined with demonstrated execution evidencing knowledge of multi-generational growth, flexibility, and iterative work style. This individual should be adept at contributing as an individual while at the same time having built teams to create disruptive products and services at a recognized successful start-up or scale company.

All applications must include a CV and cover letter and should be submitted to [email protected] 

Quality Management Lead, Medical Devices

Location: Switzerland, EU

Status: 60-100% (work permit for CH & EU)

Reports to: CEO

Are you passionate about solving one of the most exciting and sophisticated challenges in medicine today using advanced machine learning methods?

Your work will positively impact one third of the world’s population and has a direct impact on our core business. This is a key executive role to drive expansion of Biospectal’s commercial activity in B2C and B2B channels, with a focus on partnerships in health care delivery systems.

Our clinical affairs team is growing, and we need a Quality Management Lead, Medical Devices to help us to manage our regulatory quality activity. You will be responsible for developing and implementing and managing a quality management system (QMS) and processes/coordination with internal and external resources to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

  • Oversee and manage SaMD products within the CE regulatory process
  • Develop and implement quality assurance plans for SaMD products
  • Oversee testing and validation of SaMD products
  • Lead the Software Change Board (cross-functional team)
  • Develop and implement the Feedback/Complaint Management process and tools
  • Investigate and resolve quality issues
  • Manage corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs)
  • Represent Biospectal to Notified Body and Legal Manufacturers
  • Train and mentor staff to follow and implement continuous improvement processes meeting ISO 62304 and 13485 standards
  • Support customer success team

Requirements & Skills

  • 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance
  • 2+ years of SaMD (Software as Medical Device) experience
  • Strong understanding of SQA best practices and technology and MDR mandate
  • Excellent, proactive communication and interpersonal skills. Pragmatic approach
  • Proficient in Zendesk or similar support
  • Experience and proven ability to work through rapid iteration methodologies (lean, agile, etc.)
  • Creative, pragmatic approach to  effectively  solving for short and long term objectives and business needs
  • Experience with developing products with software/data/hardware interface architecture is a plus
  • Fluent business spoken and written English. German, French are a plus

The Ideal Candidate

Ideally suited to a results driven, agile, growth oriented professional who understands and “lives” the rigor, methods, and tools required for scaling a large organization but also who have worked in a fast-paced startup environment. This involves a background understanding and proven execution and/or consulting relationship in mature corporate structures, process and management combined with demonstrated execution evidencing knowledge of multi-generational growth, flexibility, and iterative work style. This individual should be adept at contributing as an individual while at the same time having built teams to create disruptive products and services at a recognized successful start-up or scale company. Experience with developing quality software app development for medical products and related regulatory interactions, as well as QMS implementation/management, especially in ISO 13485 environments a strong plus.

All applications must include a CV and cover letter and should be submitted to [email protected]  

Masters Thesis Project

Position: Intern developing cuffless estimation of blood pressure software solutions using advanced machine learning techniques

Location: Biospectal office, Lausanne, Switzerland

Status: Full-time (100%) employment

Reports to: Head of R&D

According to the WHO, 1.3 billion people worldwide suffer from hypertension, with 46% of these being unaware of their condition. The main objective of this work is to develop a non-invasive method to estimate blood pressure at home, reducing healthcare costs and empowering patients by increasing awareness and providing easy and cheap access to blood pressure monitoring. The eventual tool will be based on a wearable or smartphone-based sensor, recording photoplethysmography and/or electrocardiogram signals. These signals will be used to estimate systolic and diastolic blood pressure and machine learning approaches will be leveraged to optimize a variety of solutions for maximal performance. Extensive data from our clinical trials is readily available for this project, and additional data are available through open-access datasets. Through this project, the student will be exposed to vital signs acquisition procedures, signal processing pipelines, vast health data sets, and the latest machine learning techniques for model building.

Candidate Requirements

  • Masters student with a background in computer science/data science, biomedical engineering, or related fields
  • Knowledge of machine learning and statistics required
  • Prior programming experience and full proficiency in Python and/or MATLAB required
  • Experience in time series analysis or signal processing is a bonus
  • Must have a work permit for Switzerland

Additional Details

  • The project will take place on the premises of Biospectal SA. Students will be supervised by experienced R&D staff members and a professor. Cost compensation possible.

Contact

All applications must include a CV and cover letter and should be submitted to Dr. Andreas Köthe at [email protected]

Computational Biologist – Blood Pressure Physiology/Hemodynamics

Due to the high number of applications received only short listed candidates will be contacted. We thank you for your understanding.

Location: Based at the Biospectal headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland

Status: Full-time (100%) employment

Reports to: CTO

Are you passionate about solving one of the most exciting and sophisticated challenges in medicine today using advanced machine learning methods?

Your work will positively impact one third of the world’s population and has a direct impact on our core business. This is an applied research role – your models will be deployed to our production systems and objectively tested in clinical trials with hundreds of subjects. We have deep and rich datasets, which your passion for statistics and machine learning has the power to unlock.

We are looking for someone with hands-on experience building machine learning models, either in an academic or industrial setting.

The ideal candidate will have experience in regression and deep learning models.

You have:

  • PhD or equivalent experience in computer science or related field, strong expertise in machine learning or computational modeling.
  • 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning with hands-on experience building machine learning models or computational modeling, with a strong preference with past experience in hemodynamics-related models.
  • 5+ years of practical experience with data analysis and data processing (cleaning, visualization, and modeling).
  • Strong algorithm design and programming skills in Python.
  • Knowledge of Pandas, Scikit-Learn, SciPy, NumPy, and TensorFlow.
  • Practical experience with running machine learning pipelines in the cloud is a plus. Experience with Dask or similar frameworks is preferred.
  • Experience with data (DVC or equivalents) and code (git) version control systems is a plus.
  • Experience with ML Ops to test, deploy, manage, and monitor ML models in production is a plus.
  • Experience working with medical devices, human physiology and/or diagnostics is a plus.
  • Results-oriented person, with critical thinking and excellent problem-solving skills.
  • Team player, with excellent multi-tasking and time-management skills, resilient and with a startup mindset.
  • High-level interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, ability to work with multicultural and multinational teams.
  • English fluency required.
What you will do:
  • Understand the medical needs, physiological factors, and clinical context driving your work, identify key objectives and requirements for algorithm optimization, develop strategies for algorithm design and development, formulate machine learning problem definitions and solutions, and develop these solutions from prototyping through final production code delivery supporting the platform.
  • Collaborate and brainstorm with other team members on advanced solutions for estimating blood pressure.
  • Develop documentation and specifications related to your work, both for internal and regulatory requirements.
  • Engage in interdisciplinary collaboration: discuss and produce solutions working together with experts with different backgrounds (clinical, software, hardware, product management, etc.)

All applications (CV + cover letter) should be submitted to [email protected] 

 

Machine Learning Engineer

Due to the high number of applications received only short listed candidates will be contacted. We thank you for your understanding.

Location: Based at the Biospectal headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland

Status: Full-time (100%) employment

Reports to: CTO

Are you passionate about solving one of the most exciting and sophisticated challenges in medicine today using advanced machine learning methods?

Your work will positively impact one third of the world’s population and has a direct impact on our core business. This is an applied research role – your models will be deployed to our production systems and objectively tested in clinical trials with hundreds of subjects. We have deep and rich datasets, which your passion for statistics and machine learning has the power to unlock.

We are looking for someone with hands-on experience building machine learning models, either in an academic or industrial setting.

The ideal candidate will have experience in regression and deep learning models.

You have:

  • PhD or equivalent experience in computer science or related field, strong expertise in machine learning or computational modeling.
  • 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning with hands-on experience building machine learning models or computational modeling, with a strong preference with past experience in hemodynamics-related models.
  • 5+ years of practical experience with data analysis and data processing (cleaning, visualization, and modeling).
  • Strong algorithm design and programming skills in Python.
  • Knowledge of Pandas, Scikit-Learn, SciPy, NumPy, and TensorFlow.
  • Practical experience with running machine learning pipelines in the cloud is a plus. Experience with Dask or similar frameworks is preferred.
  • Experience with data (DVC or equivalents) and code (git) version control systems is a plus.
  • Experience with ML Ops to test, deploy, manage, and monitor ML models in production is a plus.
  • Experience working with medical devices, human physiology and/or diagnostics is a plus. 
  • Results-oriented person, with critical thinking and excellent problem-solving skills.
  • Team player, with excellent multi-tasking and time-management skills, resilient and with a startup mindset.
  • High-level interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, ability to work with multicultural and multinational teams.
  • English fluency required.
What you will do:
  • Understand the medical needs, physiological factors, and clinical context driving your work, identify key objectives and requirements for algorithm optimization, develop strategies for algorithm design and development, formulate machine learning problem definitions and solutions, and develop these solutions from prototyping through final production code delivery supporting the platform.
  • Collaborate and brainstorm with other team members on advanced solutions for estimating blood pressure.
  • Develop documentation and specifications related to your work, both for internal and regulatory requirements.
  • Engage in interdisciplinary collaboration: discuss and produce solutions working together with experts with different backgrounds (clinical, software, hardware, product management, etc.)

All applications (CV + cover letter) should be submitted to [email protected]