R&D Engineer

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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Pall Corporation, one of Danaher's 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives-and we're all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You'll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher's system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact - innovating at the speed of life.

As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. From airplane engines to hydraulic systems, scotch to smartphones, OLED screens to paper-everyday Pall is there, helping protect critical operating assets, improve product quality, minimize emissions and waste, and safeguard health.

For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place where you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world. Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation.

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The R&D Engineer will conduct research and engage in New Product Development (NPD) of advanced filtration project, drive innovation, cross functionally, deliver differentiated product performance with custom solutions, engage with Microelectronic Business Unit to ensure technical and strategy alignment. Role is a part of our growing central R&D team (Filtration Technology and Device Design)

This position is onsite and is located at our Cortland, NY site.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

* Apply technical background (from Chemical/Mechanical/Materials Engineering), especially related to micro/macro fluid-flow, materials structural-mechanical properties for design of liquid and gas filtration technologies.

* Design, Analyze and Engineer new products (with differentiated performance improvements) with the use of standard tools, state-of-the-art engineering software, design calculations, and best-known methods for product designs

* Strive to be a subject matter expert (SME), contribute to the entire value chain of filtration technology with core focus on design, modeling, prototyping, testing and analysis.

* Lead innovation and develop new technologies, build new ideas that enable New Product Development, utilize sound fundamentals including but not limited to Design of Experiments (DOE), D-FMEA and P-FMEA for new product development.

* Communicate to leadership, team members, and other key cross-functional partners, work with global teams, labs, and engineering resources in other time zones, collaborate with research and academic entities that enable breakthrough innovation

The essential requirements of the job include:

* Minimum master's degree (PhD preferred) in Material Science, Chemical, Mechanical or other Engineering disciplines

* Technical background related to filtration technology for liquid/gas separation and purification

* Technical skills in macro- and micro-fluid flow, structural mechanics, design to engineering, finite element methods, computational fluid modeling (CFD)

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

* Experience in filtration Industry R&D/product development and/or design engineering is desired

* Knowledge of polymer materials and mechanism of mass-transport during filtration process is valuable

* Knowledge of advanced semiconductor wafer fabrication processes related to photolithography and/or wet etch is highly preferred.

Pall Corporation, a Danaher company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it's a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at

The salary range for this role is $75,000 - $85,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this…