R&D Engineer

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This R&D Hardware Engineer (Mechanical Engineer) position is at our Wilmington, Delaware site.  As a Mechanical Engineer in our R&D group, you'll be part of a team that analyzes, designs, prototypes and tests new products for Agilent's Gas Chromatograph, Automated Sample Handling and Automated Sample Preparation products. Most projects require mechanical, electrical and firmware engineers, as well as chemists and software engineers, to create a complete system. As part of those projects, you will also work with our marketing, manufacturing, purchasing, and service organizations to transform your designs into shipping products.

Mechanical Engineers at our site work on designs related to the control of motion, flow and heated zones, and intelligent systems.  One example would be an unattended robotic system that uses an embedded processor to transport sample vials to an automated liquid sampling device.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree or equivalent

• 4+ years relevant experience for entry into this level
  The ability to work in an interdisciplinary, cross-functional environment

• We're also looking for someone with demonstrated skill and interest in two or more of the following areas:

  • 3D solid modeling and drafting in CAD software (Siemens NX (preferred), Solidworks, Inventor, Creo, others)

  • Familiarity with PDM/PLC/ERP systems such as TeamCenter, Agile, and SAP

  • Joining techniques such as bonding, brazing, welding

  • Post-fabrication treatment techniques such as cleaning, coating, and plating

  • Sealing technologies (high pressure and vacuum)

  • Material processing techniques such as precision machining, sheet metal, casting/molding, ceramics, cleaning, and other fabrication techniques

  • Properties of materials such as ferrous and nonferrous metal alloys and ceramics

Skill or experience in the following areas would be beneficial but are not required. This list also gives an idea of the tools we use in our work:

• Mechanical design

• Design of components utilized in heat transfer and thermal-fluid systems

• Evaluation of tolerance stack ups

• Simulation tools

• Finite Element (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and other numerical simulation techniques through tools such as ANSYS and Simcenter

• Metrology and mechanical measurement techniques

• Coordinate Measurement Machines (CMM)

• Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

• Material testing

• Temperature and heat transfer

• Testing and evaluation

• Develop procedures, execute, and document performance measurements that inform engineering decisions and product qualification

• Experience with commercial software to control experimental hardware systems; examples include C, C++, Python, MATLAB, VEE or LabView

• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)

• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)