Hardware Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description

Agilent inspires and supports discoveries that advance the quality of life. We provide life science, diagnostic and applied market laboratories worldwide with instruments, services, consumables, applications, and expertise. One of our missions at Agilent is to help our customers gain confidence in the sample quality of DNA, RNA and proteins in industries such as Biopharma, Clinical Research and Biotech. With cutting edge automated technology for various sample throughputs, and a broad variety of assays and kits, Agilent systems enable accurate, efficient, and reliable quality control for multiple applications. Examples include next-generation sequencing (NGS) libraries, cell-free and genomic DNA testing as well as PCR fragment analysis.

ORGANIZATION

Agilent has over 18,000 employees spread across Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. Our global footprint includes sales offices, logistics centers, business facilities, and manufacturing sites that enable us to deliver high-quality solutions to our customers in 110 countries. There are 3 Business Groups within Agilent. This job opportunity is within the Biomolecular Analysis Division (BAD) of the Diagnostics & Genomics Group (DGG).

POSITION

This position will become part of the Quality Engineering Team of the BAD Quality Group which is located both in Germany and the US. The successful candidate will join various Research and Development teams that are passionate about designing and developing next generation automated laboratory equipment. In this role, the quality engineer will drive product development and improvements and provide specialist quality-related services to Production, Procurement, Marketing and R&D teams. They will contribute in new projects and programs, identify risks and issues in product design, test and inspect prototypes as well as resolve and modify methods to find solutions. The engineer in this role will provide quality guidance to the extensive product mix of research use only and in-vitro diagnostics in addition to the variety of technologies.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- support and engage in new product developments of analytical automated laboratory equipment

- design and conduct performance studies for prototypes in close cooperation with R&D engineers, molecular biologists and chemists as well as marketing and support stakeholders

- plan and perform testing for robustness, reliability and lifetime

- document design and testing activities

- review technical specifications

- collect and provide design inputs

- lead and participate in FMEA, DFX, DFSS and similar activities

- build risk files for products and/or processes

- define and conduct verification and validation studies

- pitch and run projects to improve product quality and/or solve design issues

- provide guidance on test plans and test scopes

- support in audits

- supervise measurement system analysis

- lead and participate in continuous improvement activities such as Kaizen, PDCA and Six Sigma

- reviews performance data to explore product and process improvement opportunities to increase the team’s efficiency

Qualifications

EDUCATION

- Bachelor's degree in engineering (mechanical engineering, process engineering, chemical engineering, bio-engineering) or scientific subject areas (molecular biology, biochemistry), Master's or PhD preferred

EXPERIENCE

- 4 years of relevant experience in the areas of product development, quality engineering, or manufacturing processes with a strong mechanical engineering expertise

- work experience under ISO 9001 and/or ISO 13485

- experience with multi-national and interdisciplinary teams in a matrix organization

- ability to exchange communications and provide technical guidance in both German and English

- solution- and detail-oriented with an open positive nature

- experience with laboratory equipment in the genomics field preferred with the ability to communicate and understand biological and clinical applications (Bioanalyzer, TapeStation, Fragment Analyzer, Gel or Capillary Electrophoresis or Liquid Chromatography)

- Lean, Six Sigma training and/or certification preferred

- experience in design controls in software and instrumentation preferred, e.g. Oracle Agile, Siemens NX, Polarion

- familiarity with statistical evaluation tools such as Minitab preferred

WE OFFER

• Permanent contract in fast growing global company
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Work-Life-Balance programs
• Training and development opportunities
• The diversity of cultural and individual perspectives held by our employees and their dedication to inclusion

Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact the recruiter on +34 933 445 804

Agilent Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other protected categories under all applicable laws.

Travel Required

Occasional

Schedule

Schedule:Full time

Shift

Day

Duration

No End Date

Job Function

Quality/Regulatory