Senior Electrical Engineer

Job description

  Job facts

POSITION SUMMARY:

Applies intensive and diversified knowledge of design principles, practices and implementation in complex systems and assignments. General responsibilities include design concept generation, participating in design reviews, development and testing to assess performance against design specification; reliability testing, and assessment of system interactions. Makes independent decisions. Assist in the development of manufacturing processes and troubleshooting issues to determine root cause and possible engineering solutions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

·  Practices and mentors in the use of company concepts, policies and procedures, familiar with and follows standard practices.
·  Applies functional expertise routinely on the job.
·  Receives general direction and exercises considerable discretion as to work details.
·  Contributes to the definition and timely achievement of overall project goals.
·  Participates or leads in efforts to define new components, products or processes.
·  Identifies and solves technical challenges.
·  Identifies and implements improvements to work processes.
·  Creates potentially patentable components for systems, or processes.
·  Designs, plans and executes project related tasks.
·  Designs and executes experiments to test hypothesis related to project outcomes.
·  Applies advanced scientific knowledge to projects; determines priorities for experiments.
·  Independently designs and executes experiments.
·  Utilizes DOE as appropriate.
·  Assures experimental quality through sound, independent, experimental design.
·  Participates or leads cross functional technical teams.
·  Establishes interfaces across other organizational groups.
·  Provides technical direction and feedback to others.
·  Teaches others and troubleshoots problems.
·  Participates in project planning, process updates and contributes to experimental design.
·  Prepares and delivers presentations of project results to others; presents data to larger and more diverse audiences.
·  Monitors work to ensure quality, and continuously promote Quality First Time.
·  Possesses instrumentation implementation experience in most of the following areas:

·  Electrical, Electronics Embedded Engineering, Firmware.
·  Manufacturing, Design for Manufacturing, Manufacturing Processes
·  Interaction with Software Engineering
·  Algorithm development
·  FPGA, DSP development knowledge
·  Fluent in the appropriate design and analysis tools (SolidWorks, Orcad, LabView…)
·  Thorough understanding of the capabilities and fluent in the use of appropriate application-specific modeling tools such as Pspice, MathCad etc
·  Regulatory Compliance Standards (FDA, GMP, ISO…)
·  Testing methodologies (both manual and automated)

·  Who we are

Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (Ventana), a member of the Roche Group, innovates and manufactures instruments and reagents that automate tissue processing and slide staining for cancer diagnostics. Our integrated staining, workflow management and digitalpathology solutions optimize laboratory efficiency to reduce errors and support diagnosis for pathology professionals. Together with Roche, Ventana is driving personalized healthcare through accelerated drug discovery and companion diagnostics.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual's race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Desired profile

Who you are

You're someone who wants to influence your own development. You're looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

·  BS degree or equivalent in a directly related discipline.
·  Requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience OR MS degree in a directly related discipline + 4 years of related experience required OR PhD degree in a directly related discipline + 2 years of related experience required.
·  Demonstrates success in technical proficiency, creativity, collaboration with others and independent thought.
·  Expert knowledge of engineering principles and concepts.

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