Manager, Systems Engineering

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

At Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, we know time is the most critical facet in the laboratory today: time to get life-saving therapies to patients faster; reclaiming time by automating tedious manual workflows; and saving time spent addressing erroneous or complex results.

We are partners in time and accelerate answers to critical questions through the power of automation. We develop innovations for scientists by scientists, with many of our 3,300+ global colleagues coming from the laboratory.

It’s all part of our time-tested approach to bringing meaningful innovations at the speed of life since 1935. And we’re just beginning. Working together, let’s put our time and talents together to advance human health for tomorrow.

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This position, Manager Systems Engineering (M2), is responsible for the ongoing design and development efforts within Beckman Coulter’s Automation Liquid Handling platform. A successful individual in this role will utilize technical knowledge, experience, and engineering tools and methodologies to bridge the gap across functional teams and connect critical elements, including Software, Firmware, Hardware, Consumables, and Applications.  This role will be integrated into ongoing projects to act as the hub of product development by driving system architecture, specification and design, interfaces, subsystem trade-offs, traceability of design control requirements, verification testing, and supporting technology transfer to manufacturing. You will be a critical player on a fast-paced team that is developing our next generation of automation liquid handling solutions.

This position reports to the Head of Automation Hardware and is part of Automation team located in Indianapolis, IN and will be an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead and manage a systems team within new product development.
• Gather insights from customers and own the system architecture for projects in new product development
• Work with project teams and lead the definition of user needs, design requirements, design traceability, and risk analysis
• Deliver tried analytical/experimental problem-solving skills to understand hardware, software, application issues and quickly analyze and resolve system interoperability problems
• Scope, design, develop, verify, and validate new products, features, and solutions in biotech lab automation
• Design and manage Architecture for system, sub-system, and interfaces.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in an engineering discipline (Systems, Software, EE, Computer Science)
• 9+ years (B.S.) or 7+ years (M.S.) of industry experience in architecture, development, and verification of scientific automation instrumentation, robotics, or complex electromechanical equipment.
• 3+ years of technical management experience.
• Demonstrated leadership, communication skills, and ability to collaborate effectively.
• Experienced with data acquisition, task automation (macros, scripting, batch files), and analysis with good understanding of statistical concepts
• Architecture design and management for system, sub-system, and interfaces
• Experience managing a technical engineering team through requirements management (derive, write, trace, maintain), risk analysis (safety risk analysis, design risk analysis, failure mode effects analysis) and full verification/validation cycle

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements: if applicable for role

• Ability to lift, move or carry equipment up to 20lb
• Ability to travel up to 10% domestic and internationally.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Customer insight gathering and have a strong desire to interact with customers implement customer insights for projects
• Model based system engineering
• Experience with a compiled programming language such as C++, or C# 

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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