Founding Engineer (gn) – Hardware & Bioengineering, Munich

About Cellsor

Cameras digitized vision. Microphones digitized sound. Smell is the one major sense we still can't capture, measure or transmit reliably. Cellsor is building the sensor that changes that.

We replicate the mammalian olfactory epithelium outside the body – living olfactory tissue on microelectrode arrays – and read it out with machine learning.

The result is a sensor that detects chemicals the way a nose does, with the breadth and sensitivity that conventional gas sensors lack.

Applications span flavor and fragrance, defense and security, medical diagnostics, food quality and industrial monitoring.

We are a VC-backed Tufts University spin-out with a working proof of principle and paid industry pilots, with teams in Boston (biology) and Munich (engineering).

About the role

As our first engineer in Munich, you develop the instrument that keeps our living sensor tissue alive and samples the air it analyzes. You take it from today's lab setup to a field-ready prototype at a customer site within 18 months.

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Why join Cellsor now

Cellsor is an early-stage, VC-backed deep-tech startup, funded to focus on building.

Most hardware roles mean optimizing one part of an existing product.

Here you build the first instrument for a new category of sensor, and your design decisions become the foundation of the platform.

The technical risk has moved from "does this work?" to "how do we build it for the field?" – which is exactly where an engineer makes the difference.

As the platform grows into electrode integration, machine learning and product design, so does the scope of your role.

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