Engineering Manager

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As a business unit of IDEX Corporation, IH&S has a long history of driving growth in life sciences and healthcare by embracing innovation and redefining the supplier-customer relationship. The work we do every day allows us to discover key insights and break new ground to create some of the most meaningful technologies that have a lasting impact on companies, industries, and society.

IDEX Health & Science is the global leader in life science fluidics, microfluidics, and optics, offering a three-fold advantage to customers by bringing optofluidic paths to life with strategic partnerships, solutions, and expertise. As one of the few companies in the world with component, sub-system, and application-level experts, IDEX Health & Science helps instrument developers solve the most demanding fluidic and optical challenges in a wide array of applications.

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The Engineering Manager – Technology Innovation leads the development of next-generation fluidic technologies and platforms for life science, bioprocessing, and analytical applications. This role is responsible for driving early-stage innovation through proof-of-concept, technology maturation, and transition into product development.

The position combines technical leadership, team development, and strategic alignment, ensuring that emerging fluidic technologies are differentiated, scalable, and aligned with future customer and market needs.

• Define and execute fluidics technology roadmaps aligned with long-term business and market needs

• Work with Product and Technology Innovation teams to identify and develop novel approaches in fluid handling, sensing, materials, and system architectures

• Evaluate emerging technologies and translate them into actionable R&D programs

• Drive intellectual property development, including invention disclosures and patent strategy

• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary R&D team (fluidics, mechanical, systems, materials, and testing)

• Set technical direction, priorities, and resource allocation across multiple innovation projects

• Foster a culture of experimentation, rapid iteration, and data-driven decision-making

• Mentor engineers in advanced design methods, problem-solving, and technical communication

• Mentor RD&E team through career ladder-driven professional growth

• Oversee development of early-stage prototypes and experimental platforms

• Guide design and execution of experiments to validate performance hypotheses

• Drive iterative refinement from concept to validated technology

• Define technology readiness criteria and guide transition from R&D to product teams

• Support feasibility studies, risk assessments, and architecture decisions during early productization

• Ensure designs consider manufacturability, scalability, and regulatory requirements early in development