Job Description

We’ve built prototypes, run clinical trials, and are grant-funded. The key problem statement we are now solving for, is manufacturing-grade microfluidics. Ferry Lifesciences is building a multiplexed, modular, point-of-care device for anemia detection.

Here’s where we are: two years of work. Working prototypes. A 70-participant clinical trial (IRON SAFE) completed. Backing from IIT-Bombay, IISc-Bengaluru, and CCMB-Hyderabad. We have a core team with medical training and experience in clinical research, AI-based health-technology, and biodesign.

Here’s what we don’t have: Someone who has suffered, scaled, and won at taking a microfluidic cartridge from prototype to something you can actually manufacture at scale.

That’s who we’re looking for.

If you join, you own the cartridge. Specifically: architecture decisions on the chip/cartridge platform, assay-cartridge integration, design freeze, manufacturing transfer, and running pilot production. You will have the final call on how it gets built.

The technical reality of what this requires: microfluidic chip and cartridge fabrication (material analysis, lamination, injection molding, soft lithography), fluid dynamics at low volumes (capillary flow, passive valving, reagent metering), integrating detection systems (Optical, and electrochemical)  into a cartridge format, and DFM for disposable consumables targeting cost structures that work in the Global South.

If your experience is only PDMS prototyping in an academic cleanroom and you haven’t dealt with the pain of tolerances, yield, material selection, and cost at scale, this probably isn’t the right fit. If your idea of microfluidic diagnostics involves a pump, expensive equipment, and 30 minutes to fill up a cartridge, that is another indicator that this is unlikely to be the right fit for us.

If you want to use your experience and skillset to build a diagnostic platform that is truly ‘Point-of-Care’, and uses microfluidics, and you also bring regulatory familiarity (CDSCO, FDA, CE-IVD), quality systems (ISO 13485), or experience managing a contract manufacturer, please reach out.

This is a founding team role with meaningful equity in a funded company that has done the early clinical and scientific groundwork. We are not looking for a generalist engineer. We are looking for a rare person who has already lived through the realities of turning a microfluidic prototype into a manufacturable diagnostics. If that’s you, please reach out to anirudh@fe-rry.com

Tl;dr: Grant-funded startup building a modular, microfluidic, point-of-care diagnostic platform backed by INIs, with a solid clinical and RnD team is looking for a founding team member with real world experience building microfluidic technology (Capillary and passive flow-based). If that’s you, let’s talk.

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