Field Application Scientist EMEA (100%)

IT Service Manager (100%)

We are seeking a proactive and experienced IT Service Manager to lead the delivery and management of IT services across our organization. You will be responsible for ensuring high-quality service delivery aligned with business objectives and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Your Responsibilities

• Identification of technology needs MaxWell Biosystems
• Develop and implement IT strategies that align with wider business objectives
• Lead end-to-end delivery and rollout of IT projects and service implementations, ensuring minimal disruption and timely execution.
• Ensure system security and compliance
• Manage the day-to-day IT operations, ensuring the stability and performance of all systems and infrastructure
• Troubleshoot technical issues (desktop, network, system

Your Profile

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in IT service management, with demonstrable experience managing IT project rollouts and implementations.
• Strong knowledge of IT infrastructure, networking, and systems management
• Profound knowledge of Office 365, SharePoint, and Jira.
• Experience with integrating or managing business tools such as CRM (e.g., HubSpot) and ERP systems (e.g., Odoo, or others) is a plus
• Experience with Microsoft Active Directory, Entra ID is a plus
• Familiarity with Windows Server environments, Exchange Online, and endpoint device management is a plus
• Knowledge of IT compliance and data security best practices is a plus
• Keen to help create a positive, supportive, engaging team environment
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken)

What we offer you

• A centrally located workplace with a flexible working hours model, incl. home office, as well as opportunities for training and professional development
• A collaborative work environment with a flat hierarchy, complemented by regular team events
• An engaging and dynamic role at the interface of cutting-edge science and strategic business development

Are you motivated, innovative and committed to delivering first-rate performance? Do you enjoy working in an international, multidisciplinary, and interactive team? Take your next career step at MaxWell Biosystems and join us in innovating the future of electrophysiology for drug discovery and basic research.

Kim Schwendener looks forward to receiving your application documents (cover letter, résumé, letter of recommendation and degrees including transcripts) by email at hr@mxwbio.com.

Please note: We will accept applications until 11. July 2025; however, we review submissions on a rolling basis and may close the posting early if we find the right candidate. To ensure the best consideration, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Field Application Scientist EMEA (100%)

We are looking for a Field Application Scientist (FAS) to strengthen our commercial team in the EMEA region. This role is a unique opportunity to combine your scientific background with customer-facing, business-driven responsibilities. You will be at the forefront of our growth efforts — driving new customer acquisition, advancing opportunities, and helping researchers across academia and industry succeed with our HD-MEA technology.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead the full sales cycle in the EMEA region, from strategic lead engagement to contract closure
• Drive customer acquisition and revenue growth by identifying, developing, and securing new business opportunities
• Deliver high-impact product demos and customer trainings, showcasing both technical depth and commercial insight
• Act as a senior representative of MaxWell Biosystems at scientific conferences, trade shows, and high-level customer meetings
• Build and maintain long-term relationships with key accounts in academia, biotech, and pharma
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing and Product teams to refine messaging, roadmap, and go-to-market initiatives
• Provide structured, field-driven feedback to support product development and commercial strategy
• Travel extensively across the EMEA region and worldwide as needed to support key customer engagements and growth initiatives
• Report directly to the Head of EMEA

Your Profile

• MS/PhD degree in fields related to neuroscience / biotechnology / physiology
• Minimum 2-5 years of industry experience in a similar role (e.g. FAS, Technical Sales, or Account Manager), ideally in the field of neurotech, iPSC and organoids, or life science instrumentation
• Proven track record of driving sales and customer success in a scientific environment
• Deep understanding of neuronal models, ideally with hands-on experience using microelectrode array (MEA) technology – is preferred
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to engage both technical and business stakeholders
• Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus
• Willingness to travel (~50%) and comfort operating in a dynamic, customer-facing setting
• Strategic mindset, self-starter attitude, and motivation to take ownership of regional business growth

What we offer you

• A centrally located workplace with a flexible working hours model, incl. home office, as well as opportunities for training and professional development
• A collaborative work environment with a flat hierarchy, complemented by regular team events
• An engaging and dynamic role at the interface of cutting-edge science and strategic business development

Are you motivated, innovative, and committed to delivering high-impact results? Do you enjoy working in an international, multidisciplinary, and interactive team? Take your next career step at MaxWell Biosystems and help us shape the future of electrophysiology to advance science and

Giulio Zorzi looks forward to receiving your application documents (cover letter, résumé, letter of recommendation and degrees including transcripts) by email at hr@mxwbio.com.

Field Application Scientist EMEA (100%)

We are looking for a Field Application Scientist (FAS) to strengthen our commercial team in the EMEA region. This role is a unique opportunity to combine your scientific background with customer-facing, business-driven responsibilities. You will be at the forefront of our growth efforts — driving new customer acquisition, advancing opportunities, and helping researchers across academia and industry succeed with our HD-MEA technology.

Your Responsibilities

• Own the full sales cycle in EMEA — from lead qualification to deal closure
• Drive new business opportunities to meet regional sales targets
• Deliver engaging product demos and trainings, both remotely and on-site
• Represent MaxWell Biosystems at conferences, trade shows, and customer meetings
• Build deep technical knowledge on our HD-MEA technology and applications
• Contribute scientific input to sales and marketing materials
• Gather and share user feedback with product and marketing teams
• Travel across the EMEA region to support sales and customer engagement
• Report directly to the Head of EMEA

Your Profile

• MS/PhD degree in fields related to neuroscience / biotechnology / physiology
• Established experience in using multi-well microelectrode arrays for characterizing iPSC-derived neurons and analyzing microelectrode array datasets – is preferred
• Knowledgeable in the field of iPSC and organoids, as well as having an established network in this field – is a huge plus
• Fluent in English; other languages are a plus
• Strong presentation and communication skills, experienced in interacting with scientists
• Willingness to travel ~50%
• Customer-centric and aware of markets, trends, and competitors
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint)
• Good understanding of scientific results and statistical analysis
• Enthusiastic, self-driven, and eager to bridge science and business
• Proven ability to work independently and within a team environment

What we offer you

• A centrally located workplace with a flexible working hours model, incl. home office, as well as opportunities for training and professional development
• A collaborative work environment with a flat hierarchy, complemented by regular team events
• An engaging and dynamic role at the interface of cutting-edge science and strategic business development

Are you motivated, innovative, and committed to delivering high-impact results? Do you enjoy working in an international, multidisciplinary, and interactive team? Take your next career step at MaxWell Biosystems and help us shape the future of electrophysiology to advance science and improve human health.

Giulio Zorzi looks forward to receiving your application documents (cover letter, résumé, letter of recommendation and degrees including transcripts) by email at hr@mxwbio.com.

Please note: We will accept applications until 25.06.2025; however, we review submissions on a rolling basis and may close the posting early if we find the right candidate. To ensure the best consideration, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Software Engineer (100%)

Our technology consists of our software suite MaxLab Live, a custom designed integrated circuit, and an FPGA based data acquisition platform and generates vast amounts of data when electrically imaging neuronal tissue. Such data needs to be processed, analyzed and visualized online during operation. At the same time, our customers in drug discovery and neuroscience want to focus on their pharmaceutical and scientific questions, which requires to abstract and hide the technical complexity, while still providing sufficient flexibility to adapt the application to their specific needs. For this, we are seeking highly motivated software engineers to join our team and implement this challenging task.

Your Mission

• Write elegant and maintainable code for our high performance data acquisition and analysis software
• Design and implement next generation UX and data visualizations
• Contribute your own ideas in our agile development process
• Design and implement software APIs, and work with application scientists to optimize software interfaces
• Work in a multidisciplinary environment, understand customer needs, continuously improve user experience
• Effectively deliver stories or tasks within projects on your own and you know when to ask for help
• Ensure the software we ship runs stable and meets our customer’s quality standards
• Employ simple design and pragmatic implementation techniques to drive business value
• Participate in code reviews
• Improve robustness and reliability of the codebase and devote time to polishing products and systems
• Mentor junior team members
• Be open and actively seek learning opportunities from senior team members
• Participate in interview processes, help the team make hiring decisions

Our Current Tech Stack

• C++ – we aim to write maintainable and fast code to provide data analysis and visualizations in real time
• Qt – we embrace Qt for all our user interfaces
• Python – our analysis algorithms are relying on the Python data science stack
• Linux and bash
• CMake, OpenGL, boost, hdf5, … and more

Your Profile

• Proven track record as a software engineer with multiple years of experience
• Strong background in systems programming
• Strong programming skills in C++, familiarity with modern C++ standards
• Experience with network programming, server client applications
• Interest in the field of neuroscience and biotechnology
• Knowledge in Linux, Bash and Python
• Great teammate, entrepreneurial mindset
• Keen to help create a positive, supportive, engaging team environment
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken)

Experience with some of the following topics is a plus:

• Experience with data analysis and visualization
• Experience with computational algorithm development
• Experience in UI/UX design with Qt
• Experience with OpenGL
• Experience with agile development approaches

Are you motivated, innovative and committed to delivering first-rate performance? Do you enjoy working in an international, multidisciplinary, and interactive team? Then we might have a position for you. Join MaxWell Biosystems in innovating the future of electrophysiology for drug discovery and basic research.

Jan Müller looks forward to receiving your application documents (cover letter, resume, letter of recommendation and degrees including transcripts) by email at hr@mxwbio.com.

Application Scientist Intern (100%) 6-9 months

The cutting-edge electrophysiology platforms of MaxWell Biosystems enable scientists in pharmaceutical industries, contract research organizations, and academia around the world to characterize the function of neurons and the effect of compounds. Due to its high spatial-temporal resolution, our technology can record data with unique features from in-vitro 2D and 3D neuronal cells, such as organoids, cultures of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), acute brain slices and more. Our solutions allow us to extract features at network-level, single-cell level, and subcellular level, enabling faster and more accurate phenotyping of cell lines and reliable assessment of drug effects. We are seeking a highly motivated application scientist to join our scientific team, where you will have the opportunity to work on in-vitro cell and organoid culture experiments, perform electrophysiology recordings and support the analysis of micro-electrode array (MEA) datasets.

Your Responsibilities

• Conduct laboratory experiments using iPSC derived 2D/3D in-vitro cell cultures and organoids to test, optimize, and validate new MEA related technology and assays.
• Preform electrophysiology recordings using MEAs to measure electrical activity.
• Assist with general laboratory tasks such as maintaining laboratory equipment and preparing solutions.
• Prepare, summarize, and present the experimental results and findings from data interpretation.
• Support with the writing and development of new plating protocols and related documentation.
• Assist in the preparation of scientific reports and presentations.

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s (current Master’s students) or Master’s degree in neuroscience, ophthalmology, electrophysiology, or related
• Strong laboratory skills and experience with in vitro cultures and microscopy (including immunocytochemistry). Organoid experience is a strong plus.
• Laboratory experience with electrophysiology is preferred, with microelectrode arrays a plus.
• Practical working experience in BSL1 laboratory is required. BSL2 laboratory experience is a strong plus.
• Strong organizational, time management, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated, proactive person and is a quick learner.
• Ability to work independently within a dynamic, international team environment.
• Fluency in English is required, other languages are a plus

Are you motivated, innovative and committed to delivering first-rate performance? Do you enjoy working in an international, multidisciplinary, and interactive team? Then we might have an internship for you. Join MaxWell Biosystems in innovating the future of electrophysiology for drug discovery and basic research.

Simon Sennhauser looks forward to receiving your application documents (cover letter, resume, and degrees including transcripts) by email at hr@mxwbio.com.

R&D Engineer Intern (100%) 6-9 months

At MaxWell Biosystems, we develop advanced instrumentation for neuroscience and life sciences applications. Our instruments consist of custom-designed CMOS-based sensor devices, a recording system with FPGAs and other electronic and mechanical components as well as software for data acquisition and analysis. The internship project involves a broad variety of tasks and challenges including testing electrical readout circuits, designing test setups, or programming test scripts. Therefore, we are seeking a highly motivated engineer to implement and work on some of these challenging tasks.

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s, Master’s degree in electrical engineering, physics or equivalent
• Experience in electronics
• Experience with designing experiments, evaluating data and reporting
• Experience with Python programming is a plus
• Interest in product lifetime testing and failure analysis
• Interest in electronics packaging materials and technology
• Interest in the field of neuroscience and biotechnology
• Hands-on, detail oriented, pro-active and open-minded spirit

What we offer

• Working with cutting-edge technology
• Freedom to innovate and push your own ideas
• Be part of a fast-paced technology startup at the intersection between biology and engineering

Are you motivated, innovative and committed to delivering first-rate performance? Do you enjoy working in an international, multidisciplinary, and interactive team? Then we might have an internship for you. Join MaxWell Biosystems in innovating the future of electrophysiology for drug discovery and basic research.

We look forward to receiving your application documents (cover letter, resume, and degrees including transcripts) by email at hr@mxwbio.com.

Other Internships

We are interested in motivated individuals from a variety of backgrounds, including Biotechnology, Engineering, Computer Science, Sales and Marketing. For topics, contact us directly at hr@mxwbio.com.