About You: You are a seasoned Hardware Engineer who enjoys owning complex systems end to endfrom architecture and requirements through design, integration, and release.

Youre comfortable leading small, multidisciplinary hardware teams, and you know how to balance hands-on technical work with coordination, planning, and mentorship.

You communicate clearly, make tradeoffs explicitly, and work well with peers across software, assay, and manufacturing.

Youre energized by building firstofkind diagnostic instruments in a fastpaced, missiondriven environment.

What Youll Do: Own the hardware architecture for key subsystems of the Vital

One platform, spanning mechanics, electronics, and system integration.

Translate product and system requirements into clear hardware specifications, interfaces, and design plans.

Lead a small team of hardware and mechanical engineers, providing daytoday technical guidance, code/design review, and support on execution.

Drive design, bringup, and integration of hardware modules, working closely with firmware, software, assay, and systems teams to meet performance, reliability, and usability targets.

Plan and oversee hardware testing and verification activities, including test plans, protocols, data review, and iteration on failures.

Support designformanufacturing (DFM) and designforassembly (DFA), collaborating with Manufacturing and suppliers to scale from prototypes to production builds.

Maintain highquality documentation: requirements, design records, drawings, BOMs, test reports, and change histories.

Help organize and run hardware design reviews, clearly framing options, risks, and recommended paths.

Contribute to roadmap planning and program execution by estimating effort, identifying dependencies, and highlighting risks early.

Mentor junior engineers on technical skills, documentation, and Vitals ways of working.

What Youll Need: B.

Sc . or M.

Sc . in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline.

Significant experience (typically 7+ years)



in hardware development for complex systems such as medical devices, diagnostics, robotics, or lab instrumentation.

Proven track record taking hardware from concept and prototyping through verification and transfer to manufacturing.

Robust systems thinking, with the ability to reason across mechanics, electronics, firmware interfaces, and systemlevel behavior.

Proficiency with core hardware tools (e.g., CAD for mechanical, schematic/BOM review for electronics, common lab and test equipment).

Experience working within or alongside quality systems and design controls (requirements, risk analysis, verification/validation).

Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize complex technical topics for nonspecialists.

Demonstrated ability to lead through influence: coordinating work, setting expectations, and keeping teams aligned to milestones.

Bonus points for Experience with pointofcare or benchtop diagnostic instruments.

Background in microfluidicsadjacent hardware (pumps, valves, thermal systems, optics, or motion stages).

Familiarity with risk tools (FMEA, fault trees) and reliability engineering for hardware.

Experience collaborating with contract manufacturers or external design partners.

Prior experience in a startup or growthstage company where processes and tools are still evolving.

An appreciation for puns and helping to build a highbar, lowego team culture.

Why Join Us? At Vital Bio, you will: Lead the hardware that makes our diagnostic platform realwhat moves, measures, and controls the core of our assays.

Youll work side by side with assay scientists,



software and firmware engineers, and manufacturing teams, with a clear line from your decisions to instrument performance and clinical impact.

Youll have the chance to shape hardware architecture, guide a growing team, and help define how we design, test, and scale future generations of the platform.

The salary range for this position is $145,000-$165,000 annually.

Compensation will be determined based on the individuals demonstrated experience, education, training, relevant certifications or licensure, and other applicable business and organizational factors.

This role is a current, onsite vacancy.

About Vital Bio Vital is revolutionizing point-of-care diagnostics with our Vital

One platform, delivering real-time care wherever patients are.

Our mission is to democratize health technology, making healthcare more accessible and proactive.

Our global team of experts spans chemistry, software, engineering, and microfluidics.

We thrive on change, operate on trust, and value diverse perspectives.

Our growth-minded culture empowers front-line decision-making and fosters impactful work.

We seek tenacious, bold individuals ready to transform healthcare.

At Vital, your talent will make a difference as we work to ensure everyone has access to care when and where they need it.

Vital Biosciences Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace.

We are therefore happy to accommodate any individual needs in keeping with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.

If you require accommodation in order to participate in our hiring process, please contact us to make your needs known in advance As part of our recruitment process, we may use automated or AI-supported tools to assist with application review and screening.

These tools are used to support, not replace, human decision-making.

Final hiring decisions are always made by our hiring team.

📌 Hardware Engineering Tech Lead (Oakville)
🏢 Vitalbio
📍 Oakville