Graduate Research Engineer

Graduate Research Engineer - Job Description

Department:

R&D

Reports to:

Senior Research Engineer

Hours per week/FTE:

39

Direct reports:

- no direct reports

Job Purpose/Summary:

To identify research activities that are pertinent to Analox's business & deliver research outcomes that are proven to the extent that they can be developed into products or discounted as opportunities.

Main Responsibilities/Key Tasks:

• Recommend where research effort should be spent.
  
  • What to push now & what to leave for later.
  • Use judgement based on technology readiness / size of market / cost of development to select the best areas to concentrate on.
  • Agree proposed research programme with the research team lead and products team.
• Find good research partners & work with them.
• By following the Analox research process, manage the successful completion of the research programme & associated research projects.
  
  • Build and evaluate prototypes.
  • Assess bought products.
• Demonstrate the research outcomes:
  
  • To the design team so that the product can be productionised.
  • To internal and external customers in the form of presentations and papers.
• Work within development teams as a sensor technology specialist as a part of the New Product Introduction (NPI) process.
• Work with all company departments to ensure that the research programme aligns with the company's needs.
• Keep records of all research activities so that they can be readily picked up again in the future.
• Support design team in productionising research outcomes.
• Implement improvement in the research process through measurable performance indicators.

Person Specification:

Education/Qualifications:

Essential:

• Degree in science / engineering field

• Physics or applied science
• 2:1 or higher
• Masters or post-grad

• Analogue electronics
• Experimental design
• IR gas sensing
• Basic electrochemistry

• Software for data analysis (e.g. python pandas numpy or Matlab)
• Mass Spectrometry
• 3D mechanical design

• Graduate level so N/A

• Project delivery (home or academic)

• Conceptual thinker
• Problem solving

• Highly technical