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About the Role

Agilent inspires and supports discoveries that advance quality of life. We provide laboratories worldwide with instruments, services, consumables, applications, and expertise that help customers gain the answers and insights they seek. We are seeking a Senior R&D Mechanical Engineer for the development of advanced scientific instrumentation in Santa Clara. This role combines hands-on engineering depth with broad technical leadership across precision mechanisms, vacuum-compatible assemblies, thermal management, materials selection, packaging, and design for manufacturing and service.

Responsibilities

Lead mechanical architecture and detailed design for complex scientific instruments, subsystems, prototypes, fixtures, and test hardware from concept through release.
Convert scientific, system, and customer-use requirements into practical mechanical concepts, specifications, tolerance schemes, and verified designs.
Apply advanced understanding of material properties, including thermal conductivity, coefficient of thermal expansion, stiffness, strength, corrosion resistance, chemical compatibility, outgassing, cleanliness, and long-term stability.
Select materials, finishes, adhesives, fasteners, seals, and manufacturing processes appropriate for laboratory, vacuum, high-voltage, thermal, and contamination-sensitive environments.
Create and maintain accurate 3D models, assemblies, drawings, bills of material, and configuration-controlled design documentation using enterprise MCAD and product-lifecycle-management systems.
Perform or direct thermal, structural, tolerance, fit, and stack-up analyses; use engineering calculations and simulation to guide design decisions and reduce technical risk.
Design for manufacturability, assembly, reliability, serviceability, cost, safety, and compliance while balancing instrument performance and schedule.
Plan and execute prototype builds, design verification, root-cause investigations, and corrective actions; document conclusions and recommendations with clear technical evidence.
Present designs and corrective actions to the team.
Partner with scientists, electrical engineers, software engineers, manufacturing, quality, procurement, suppliers, and service teams to resolve cross-functional integration issues.
Lead technical reviews, communicate risks and tradeoffs to stakeholders, and serve as an escalation point for complex mechanical problems.
Mentor engineers and technicians, establish sound design practices, and contribute reusable methods, standards, and lessons learned across programs.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 8 years of professional mechanical design experience delivering complex hardware products, with demonstrated depth and independence consistent with an Expert-level role.
Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous, complex, and high-impact design problems with limited direction.
Strong knowledge of engineering materials and their behavior under thermal and mechanical loading, including heat conduction and thermal expansion.
Experience designing equipment for laboratory or scientific use, with attention to cleanliness, chemical exposure, temperature, humidity, vibration, transportation, and normal operating conditions.
Experience producing engineering drawings and applying geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, tolerance analysis, and design-release practices.
Experience working with machined, sheet-metal, molded, fabricated, rapid 3D printed part and purchased components and with external suppliers.
Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and collaborate effectively across scientific, engineering, manufacturing, quality, and service functions.

Skills

Precision mechanisms
Vacuum-compatible assemblies
Thermal management
Materials selection
Design for manufacturing
Design for service
Siemens NX or comparable parametric 3D CAD platform
Teamcenter or other PLM experience
Thermal finite-element analysis
Structural finite-element analysis
Computational fluid dynamics
Simcenter FloEFD
Analytical instruments
Mass spectrometry
Chromatography
Spectroscopy
Diagnostics
Semiconductor equipment
Precision scientific systems
High- or ultra-high-vacuum hardware
Precision ion-optics or charged-particle assemblies
Turbo molecular and rough vacuum pumps
Vacuum feedthroughs
Seals
Gas-flow control valves
Pneumatic system control
Contamination-sensitive designs
Low-outgassing materials in UHV, HV environment
Thermal isolation
Heat dissipation
High-voltage clearances
Electromagnetic effects
Cable routing
Electronics packaging
PCB technologies
Thermal management components
Heaters with temperature sensors in atmospheric and vacuum environments
Heating technology
Cartridge heaters
Resistive heating
Gas heating for high purity environments
Control of heating systems

Location

Santa Clara

Work Type

Full-time
Occasional travel

Experience Level

Senior
Expert

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
Equivalent practical experience

Salary/Compensations

$153,823.00 - $269,550.00/yr

Benefits

Eligibility for bonus
Eligibility for stock
Benefits package

About the Company

Agilent Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity and merit-based employer that values individuals of all backgrounds at all levels.
Agilent Technologies, Inc., is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive in the workplace where everyone is welcome, and strives to support candidates with disabilities.

Equal Opportunity

All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, religion or religious creed, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, local law, ordinance, or regulation and will not be discriminated against on these bases.
If you have a disability and need assistance with any part of the application or interview process or have questions about workplace accessibility, please email job_posting@agilent.com or contact +1-262-754-5030.
For more information about equal employment opportunity protections, please visit www.agilent.com/en/accessibility.