Senior Systems Engineer
Company: SCIEX
Location: Redwood City, CA
Posted on: July 3, 2019
Job Description:
Duties: Build systems for the analytical instrumentation market. Work in
Research and Development designing products for the Liquid Chromatography and Capillary Electrophoresis Markets.
Lead in design controls of new products and work with the R&D team to define innovate products. Work with
application associates to identify new features and requirements for products. Drive the definition of new designs
from concept to manufacturing as well as support existing products in the field through product support and
manufacturing. Contribute to the technology planning process and monitor scientific developments in research and
associated Liquid Chromatography technology developments. Maintain access to end user customers and
information regarding customer needs, opinion and level of satisfaction with products. Translate customer, marketing and
business needs into User Needs and System Requirements and create frameworks for tradeoff analysis. Plan
for and ensure the provisioning of hardware and software necessary for engineers and scientists to conduct
studies and other integration level activities. Generate system level requirement specifications based on the
architectural decisions and technology choices available. Oversee the build and integration of advanced breadboards and
use the systems to provide capability analysis and feedback to the R&D Team. Identify risks and make
recommendations for risk response strategies and fallback
plans. Under the direction of the Project Manager, monitor and control
prototype activities including instrument configuration, technical problem reporting, verification and validation status,
corrective action planning, status reporting, issue closure. Responsible for the success of the overall Prototype
build and monitoring activities for the development of final test requirements to be passed onto manufacturing process
support staff. Education and Experience Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Science,
Engineering, Chemistry, Biomedical, Bioinformatics, or related field and 5 years of experience in job or working in a
Research and Development team on New Product Development within in Life Sciences, Medical Device or related
industries. OR Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Science,
Engineering, Chemistry, Biomedical, Bioinformatics, or related field with 3 years of experience in job or working in a
Research and Development team on New Product Development within in Life Sciences, Medical Device or related
industries. Experience must include: Developing User Needs and System
Requirements of new products, architecting instruments in an R&D environment, and translating requirements into
design strategies across multiple disciplines in R&D and Manufacturing such as Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware and
Software Engineering; Developing Life Cycle documentation and design controls that establish product testing
for Verification and Validation under auditable ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and IVD (In
Vitro Diagnostics) worldwide standards; Moving designs and products from R&D to National and International
Manufacturing sites while addressing DFx (Design For Test, Design For Manufacturing, Design For Service, etc.) strategies
to meet the needs of site requirements, vendor requirements, shipping requirements, and End-Of-Life
requirements; Leading the efforts of product Risk Management, FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis), FTA (Fault Tree
Analysis) and other analytical techniques to establish safety and reliability in products shipped worldwide requiring
application of quality and reliability standards and working with Quality and Reliability Engineers to setup and
perform life tests, ISTA (International Safe Transit Association) tests, ISO61010/Machinery Directive tests, and
meeting the requirements of those standards. 10 % domestic and international travel required Qualified candidates please e-mail resume to Jason Mead at
jason.mead@sciex.com and reference job title
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