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. Agilent enables customers to gain the
answers and insights they seek –– so they can do
what they do best: improve the world around us.
Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.
Agilent’s Pathology Division develops pathology
solutions for tissue-based cancer diagnostics.
Our portfolio of solutions includes fully
automated systems, all operating in a
highly-regulated market environment. We are using
lean lab approaches to increase our customers’
productivity and efficiency while simultaneously
eliminating the chances of operation errors in their workflows.
Agilent's Diagnostics and Genomics Group
Engineering team is a global group focused on
development of automated clinical workflow
solutions for both the Genomics and Pathology
Divisions. The Santa Clara, California based team
is looking for an experienced, senior technology
leader with a strong medical device background to
drive development of a new advanced instrument development project.
This is an opportunity to join an enthusiastic
and dynamic team and work closely with a cross
functional array of technical and application
experts, stake holders, manufacturing, and service teams.
Position Description and Responsibilities:
• Senior firmware engineer responsible for
providing technical leadership and robust,
real-time embedded firmware control systems
solutions for highly automated, complex clinical lab instrumentation products.
• Responsible for complete, top-to-bottom
firmware solutions, including system-level
architectural concept generation and evaluation,
detailed coding, and documentation.
• Specifies tools and technologies for evaluating
and developing instrument control systems.
• Understands, designs, implements, and analyzes
firmware code to achieve effective and efficient
control of various types of robotic, liquid
handling, and temperature controlling components.
• Works closely with the mechanical, electrical,
and software architects to reduce broad
instrument requirements into structured concepts;
includes research, high level concept modeling,
and identification of low level specifications
needed to achieve functional requirements.
• Owns product designs through all phases of the
product life cycle, from concept feasibility,
through design and test, to effective transfer to
manufacturing, and support for field and manufacturing escalations.
• Responsible for documentation, per FDA
regulations for developing diagnostic products,
including requirements, design input
specifications, risk assessments, design intent,
design reviews, technical analysis supporting
critical design decisions, test plans for
verifying the design, test reports, and detailed coding documentation.
• Hands-on in the lab, including, but not limited
to: tuning, design verification testing, and troubleshooting.
• Considers and documents multiple solution
options, showing why the selected option best
meets product and module requirements.
• Collaborates with cross functional disciplines,
including electrical, mechanical, and software
design engineers, applications scientists,
technicians, manufacturing and field
service/support engineers, marketing, quality,
and QA, within and across company divisions.
• Serves as an escalation point for complex
issues and uses wide-ranging experience to apply
broad concepts and theories to achieve innovative and effective solutions.
• Contributes to development of new theories and
methods, uses advanced approaches and concepts
where information is seldom available,
proactively shares progress and solicits ideas,
and communicates vision and strategy.
• Assesses technical risks, distinguishes between
major factors and noise, identifies and
communicates trade-offs, proposes priorities as
well as strategic and tactical plans, and owns
execution of tasks, on time, to meet project milestones.
Qualifications:
• BS + 8 years of experience or MS + 5 years of
experience in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
• A demonstrable track record of successful project implementations.
• Successful with collaborative teamwork across
organizations, cultures, geographies, and disciplines.
• Experience developing products in FDA regulated environments.
• History of producing creative, simple solutions
to broad and complex problems.
• Effective communication skills:
• Proactive
• Written and oral
• Can appropriately shift between low level,
detailed technical discussions and high level
project planning/updates with management
• Able to explain complex technical issues to
broader audiences, in simple terms, without using
technical jargon or oversimplifying
• Independent and self-driven, with reputation
for initiating action to quickly and effectively address issues.
• Strong problem solving and decision making skills.
• Thorough, with high standards for quality work product.
• Proven record for meeting commitments in
schedule-driven environments, accurately
estimating time required to perform tasks, and
managing time between multiple projects.
• Comfortable adapting to changing project goals.
• Experienced with and effective at mentoring junior engineers.
Required Skills:
• Years of experience, thorough understanding of,
and proven track record with successfully:
• Developing firmware architecture, including
communications and interfaces with hardware and software.
• Designing and developing robust, real-time
embedded systems for controlling various types of
robotic, liquid handling, and temperature
controlling components and sensors, including,
but not limited to brushless DC and stepper
motors, heaters, TECs, solenoids, valves, pumps,
liquid sensors, temperature sensors, pressure
sensors, bar code readers, cameras, and encoders.
• Developing firmware for microcontrollers and
DSP chips, preferably ARM, PIC and TI C2000 family processors
• Applying control theory and tuning, especially
in motion and thermal control, including
understanding of motor commutation and experience applying PID.
• Documenting per FDA regulations for developing diagnostic products.
• Proven track record developing organized,
clear, concise, and scalable firmware code,
complete with annotation and supporting documentation.
• Effective with understanding, leveraging, and
scaling existing code, including ability to
identify when existing code is not scalable
• Programming languages: C, C++, assembly with real time programming.
• Broad and deep expertise with methods for
debugging and troubleshooting complex issues.
• Experience with development platforms,
preferably TI Code Composer Studio, Rowley CrossWorks.
• Experience with hardware interfaces, preferably
ADCs, PWMs, CAN, Ethernet, Serial that include
SCI, SPI, I2C, USB, Quadrature encoders.
• Ability to read and follow data sheets and schematics.
Preferred Skills:
• Experience with motion control libraries,
preferably TI/Linestream InstaSPIN and TI Control Suite.
• Proficiency with PLM and ERP systems (such as
Agile and SAP) for document control of designs,
releasing designs to Manufacturing, and revising them per ECO process.
• MS Project
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