Engineering Lead - Optical Systems & Photonics Hardware (Healthtech, Deep tech)

Cultural Skills ✔️

• Builder’s mindset with high ownership, urgency, and empathy.
• Low‑ego, highly collaborative leader who elevates others.
• Mission‑driven and patient‑centered.
• ​​​​​​ iLoF in a nutshell 💡
• As personalized medicine becomes the norm, scientists, patients, and healthcare systems worldwide face massive barriers in providing the right treatment to the right patient.
• Recognized by CB Insights and Financial Times as one of the most promising Digital Health companies in the world, iLoF is building an AI-powered platform capable of transforming precision medicine.
• Our goal is to become the platform that democratizes access to personalized medicine for millions of people living with complex diseases around the globe.
• Thanks to our proprietary optical fingerprint library of disease biomarkers and biological profiles we can offer personalized patient screening and stratification in a faster and more affordable way, saving up to 40% of the cost and 70% of the time while enabling a more human patient experience.
• Supported by leading institutions like Microsoft Ventures, Mayfield, and the Oxford University, iLoF is currently focusing on validating its platform technology in one of the biggest challenges of our times: Alzheimer's, while maintaining ongoing verticals on Digestive Cancer, Stroke, and Infectious diseases.
• Our Team 🧑🏻‍💻
• We are a mix of scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors based in Oxford and Porto, with a passion for healthcare!
• Recognized by CB Insights as one of the most promising Digital Health companies in the world and by the Financial Times as a Transformational Business in Healthcare, iLoF has been regularly featured in leading outlets like Tech Crunch, Wired, and Sifted and listed as a rising star in AI-Driven Drug Discovery, Health Screening & Data Analytics.

What we value

Perks 😉

• An exciting future with a deep-tech company selected by Financial Times and CB Insights as one of the most transformative companies in the world
• A high‑paced, flexible environment: adaptable working hours, strong remote work culture
• A stimulating atmosphere with room for creativity – fast‑paced, fun, and energetic start‑up with a friendly culture
• Weekly happy hours with amazing food and drinks
• Free coffee and snacks ☕
• Private healthcare insurance (for employees; contractor benefits to be agreed)
• The opportunity to work with a world‑class, talented team – and potentially change healthcare as we know it for millions of patients living with complex diseases around the globe 🧑‍⚕️
• We share a passion for being part of a mission that matters, and we are always looking for curious and collaborative people who share our values and want to be part of our journey.
• If that sounds like a fit for you, click the apply button and join us.
• You’ve read all this way but you’re missing a skill or two? No problem, it’s our job to upskill you to take your career to the next level. What we’re trying to say is, don’t be afraid to apply if you don’t tick all the boxes.