Senior Systems Engineer - Detection Technologies " "

Agilent’s Detection R&D organization develops and supports a portfolio of analytical detector systems used in UHPLC, GPC/SEC, and related separation technologies. Our products include absorbance, fluorescence, refractive index, light scattering, and other advanced detection technologies.

We are looking for an experienced engineer or physicist to serve as a technical expert for this portfolio. Working across optics, fluidics, electronics, mechanics, and signal processing, you will investigate complex technical challenges, lead root-cause analyses, and provide technical leadership for released products throughout their lifecycle.

Unlike a traditional development engineering role, this position focuses on technical ownership, product support, and the successful long-term operation of a critical product portfolio.

In this role, you will:

• Serve as a technical expert for Agilent’s detector portfolio and support resolution of complex product issues.
• Lead investigations involving experimentation, measurements, data analysis, and root-cause analysis.
• Drive resolution of cross-functional technical challenges involving optics, electronics, firmware, mechanics, manufacturing, and applications teams.
• Support sustaining engineering activities, product improvements, verification efforts, and obsolescence management.
• Provide technical guidance for supplier transitions, component substitutions, and manufacturing improvements.
• Capture and transfer critical technical knowledge across products and technologies.
• Represent R&D in technical reviews and management discussions.

What Makes This Role Unique

• Technical ownership of a diverse portfolio of industry-leading analytical instruments.
• Exposure to multiple technologies including optics, detector systems, fluidics, electronics, mechanics, and signal processing.
• Opportunity to act as a key technical escalation point for high-impact business and customer challenges.
• Close collaboration with R&D, manufacturing, service, and leadership teams.

• Master’s degree or PhD in Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience working with complex hardware products, scientific instruments, sensors, optics, spectroscopy, photonics, analytical instrumentation, or related technologies.
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following areas: Optics, Spectroscopy, Photonics, Fluidics, Precision Mechanics, Electronics, Signal Processing, Detector Technologies.
• Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues through experimentation, measurement, data analysis, and root-cause investigation.
• Experience supporting products throughout their lifecycle, including technical escalations, sustaining engineering, reliability improvements, or product support activities.
• Strong systems-thinking skills and the ability to work across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Professional proficiency in German and English.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to customer, supplier, and manufacturing sites., * Experience with analytical instrumentation, chromatography systems, laboratory equipment, or scientific instruments.
• Knowledge of detector technologies such as UV/Vis absorbance, fluorescence, refractive index, or light scattering.
• Experience acting as a technical expert, subject matter expert, or escalation point for critical technical issues.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, supplier transitions, component substitutions, reliability programs, or product lifecycle activities.