Principal R&D Scientist

FLSA Status: Full time, Regular, Salary, Exempt

At Dimer Instruments we’re creating the next generation of laboratory analytical instruments for the pharmaceutical market. Our products use multiple light-based spectroscopic methods to interrogate solutions containing molecules and particles, providing researchers not just with data but with organized information allowing them to make informed decisions. At Dimer you’ll be working with a high-quality, high-performing, highly collaborative, and enjoyable team of Engineers and Scientists to create products that make a difference in the world.

We have fun while we’re creating great products.

The Principal Research and Development Scientist will be a critical member of the team designing and developing Analytical instruments. They will be expert in the use of optics, optical bread boarding, and optical systems, and in addition to optics they will use a combination of science, math, analysis, scripting/programming, mechanics, data acquisition, and electronics to contribute hands-on through all phases of research and development, including
1) initial math, analysis, simulation,
2) measurement system design,
3) building real-world prototypes that demonstrate proof of concept for individual measurement modalities and functionality,
4) building system prototypes,
5) bringing products from R&D into Manufacturing,
6) demonstrating product performance at every stage in the product lifecycle, and
7) supporting product release and early rapid product improvement. The Principal R&D Scientist will collaborate closely with Mechanical, Electrical, and Software Engineers, and with in-house Application Scientists. The successful Principal R&D Scientist will be able to be scientifically careful and rigorous, able to theoretically understand and experimentally tease apart subtle contributors to data and signals, and also be action-oriented and able to come to quick, practical, and manufacturable solutions.

They will be designing and creating scientific instruments that provide cutting edge data and yet are robust in the real world, able to ship to Japan or Europe without optics mis-aligning, and able to reliably operate in sometimes non-ideal laboratory conditions. The successful Principal R&D Scientist will not shy away from tackling the sometimes less glamorous work of contributing to work instructions and assembly instructions (e.g. for an optical alignment or calibration method to be used in manufacturing), generating and documenting manufacturing tools (which can sometimes be complicated analytical instruments in their own right), contributing to user documentation, and running and analyzing user samples.

The successful R&D Principal scientist will be highly collaborative, both with Dimer staff across the organization and with external researchers. The Principal R&D Scientist will also be willing and able to educate customers, internal Dimer staff, and other stakeholders regarding the science behind the Dimer products, generating presentations and demonstrations and presenting at conferences, trade shows, customer sites, and for internal training as needed.

Dimer Instruments products are scientific instruments and analytical tools used by scientists. The Principal R&D Scientist will be a key member of a collaborative team inventing, designing, developing, and launching products that solve real world challenges and improve the pace of science and pharmaceutical development.

• Design, build, and demonstrate performance of optical measurement systems, including imaging and non-imaging systems from UV into the NIR
• Use standard optical and measurement tools to assess performance of optical components…