Engr , Systems

Position: Engr 3, Systems
Description:

The below questions are required with resume submission:

1. What is your motivation for applying to this position?
2. What are your career goals?
3. What is your experience with diagnostic instrumentation or complex systems that include optics, assays, electro-mechanical components, and software?
4. What has been your experience working in a lab environment testing and/or verifying systems?
5. Describe your work experience in product development.
6. Describe the basic operations of a flow cytometry instrument.

Pay rate range of $34-$40 depending on experience, bill rate of $43.18-$50.80

Work hours:

9am-5pm

Do not submit candidates previously submitted to CFNJP & CFNJP

3 Must haves on the resume:
1. 1-2 years industry experience in a system verification and validation role within a R&D organization OR 1-2 years industry experience running Flow Cytometers in a product development environment
2. Ability to write and follow a protocol with minimal guidance.
3. Applicants must have experience working in the lab with blood samples.

* Note:

Due to COVID-19, this position will be working in the office to run experiments as needed and will work from home when lab work is not required until further notice by BD.

The Systems Verification Engineer III will work closely with systems engineers and the product development team to ensure product design meets product requirements on BD flow cytometry products, with emphasis on assessing the features to meet the needs of the customer.
He/She applies engineering, statistics, and scientific theory to measure and quantify performance of BD cell analysis products. He/She will design, plan, and conduct experiments to assess system performance. This includes the development and execution of formal protocols, analysis and interpretation of results, and communication of results and their impact to the project and the customer through written reports, design reviews, and interactive discussions.
The Systems Verification Engineer III may be called upon to lead small to medium sized projects or initiatives, including generation of project plans, development of test strategies that balance risk and business objectives, and directing small to medium sized teams.
He/She is comfortable asking questions, raising concerns, and engaging in technical dialog with engineers and project stakeholders.
He/She will regularly exercise independent judgment and apply systems thinking, problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting to generate innovative ideas to improve BD products or processes.
The individual shall operate within BD design control, quality, and safety requirements, and promote a safe working environment.

Qualifications
The successful candidate will possess:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in an engineering, technology, or science field with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience or a combination of equivalent education and experience.

• Minimum of 3 years in performing and providing technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of complex systems.

• Demonstrated knowledge and application of fundamental engineering concepts

• Experience in product development process and design control within the medical device industry

• Ability to quickly grasp the functionality and interdependencies of complex multidisciplinary
systems, to include lasers, optics, fluidics, electro-mechanical devices, software, algorithms,
biological samples, and biochemistry.

• Ability to understand the broader impact of design features, testing methods, and test results to the user, customer, regulator, and to the marketability of the product.

• Apply systematic troubleshooting and debugging skills, practice in "systems thinking" problem solving approaches

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Attention to detail

• Proficient in data extraction, manipulation, interpretation, and presentation

• Ability to prepare and process biological samples in a wet-lab Biosafety Level 2 Laboratory

Desired:

• MS or Ph.D. degree in Biology, Immunology, Biomedical Engineering or in a related discipline.

• Strong knowledge of flow cytometry applications and assay development.

• Experience in product development process and design control

• Experience working within a regulated medical device industry

• Knowledge or experience in FDA submissions

• Experience in statistics, design of experiments, calculating sample sizes and estimating statistical power of study designs.

• Experience using MATLAB, SAS, JMP, R, Mini Tab, or LabVIEW for scripting, data analysis, or automation