Principal Clinical Systems Engineer

TN United Kingdom; Wilmslow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Principal Clinical Systems Engineer to contribute to the development of cutting-edge Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) systems. In this pivotal role, you will translate customer needs into product requirements, ensuring the delivery of safe and effective solutions. Collaborating with a cross-functional team, you will lead system verification and validation efforts while promoting best practices in systems engineering. This role offers an exciting opportunity to impact the clinical business unit and advance your career in a dynamic environment focused on innovation and excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry or related subject.
• Experience in LC and/or mass spectrometry or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of LC-MS Systems for the Clinical Business Unit.
• Collaborate with product owners to define user requirements.

Skills

Engineering

Physics

Chemistry

LC-MS Systems

Communication Skills

Independent Work

Fluency in Mandarin Chinese

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

MSc in Systems Engineering

Tools

Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

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Principal Clinical Systems Engineer, Wilmslow

Client:

Waters Corporation

Location:

Wilmslow, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the development of Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) Systems for the Clinical Business Unit. You will play a critical role in defining our products: translating voice of customer into requirements, and ensuring that developments based on those requirements result in safe and effective products.
• Collaboration with and support of product owners in understanding & defining a system context and in developing and defining user requirements.
• Close collaboration with a cross functional team of Subject Matter Experts from Hardware and Software Engineering teams to generate system designs/architectures.
• Ownership of system verification and validation documents to provide test evidence that system design requirements have been met.
• Taking a lead role in the development and support of existing Waters Clinical systems and technologies.
• Active promotion of the use of systems engineering tools, process and practices, including modelling or simulation of emergent system behaviour where appropriate.
• Working within our process and regulatory frameworks, and ensuring that consideration of risk and patient safety are at the core of our products.

Qualifications

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry or a related subject. A MSc in Systems Engineering would be desirable.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary engineering team environment, particularly with proven practical experience of LC and/or mass spectrometry or a related discipline.
• Proven experience in the development of LC and/or MS instrumentation, or similar scientific or analytical instrumentation containing sample preparation, chemistry, fluids under pressure, optics, vacuum, particle optics, precision mechanics, electronics, and firmware/software.
• Experience in working with complex systems, including a proven ability to understand high level software and electro-mechanical architecture.
• Ability to work in a regulated environment within a process.
• A technical understanding of the requirements, procedures and physical resources needed to verify sub-assemblies in system environments and complete LC/MS products.
• Ability to network and build cross-functional teams.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills are required, for example to ensure succinct report generation, effective communication with staff, peer groups, etc. across organisation.
• Must be able to work independently and communicate with all levels of the organisation.
• Computer literate - knowledge of Word, PowerPoint and Excel an advantage - in order to produce reports, analyse data etc. effectively.
• Fluency in Mandarin Chinese would be an advantage.