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This position is at our Little Falls, (Wilmington), Delaware site, located midway between Baltimore and Philadelphia. There, we have 800 people inventing, designing, building and marketing products that lead the market for chemical analysis. Our products are frequently behind the headlines in the news, from environmental regulations to new drug discoveries to food safety. You'll even see our instruments on television shows like "CSI".

As an Electrical Engineer in our R&D group, you'll be part of a team that analyze, design, prototype and test new products for Agilent's Gas Chromatograph, Automated Sample Handling and Automated Sample Preparation products. Most projects require mechanical, electrical and firmware engineers, as well as chemists and software engineers, to create a complete system. As part of those projects, you will also work with our marketing, manufacturing, purchasing and service organizations to transform your designs into shipping products.

Though you'll be part of a team, you will also be working independently and setting your own priorities. The scope and complexity of your projects will be based on your existing knowledge and capabilities as well as how fast you can acquire new skills.

Electrical/Firmware Engineers at our site work on digital and analog PC board designs, algorithms for control of motion, flow and heated zones, intelligent systems. You will work with Real time systems, FPGA programming and robotic systems as well as thermal and pneumatic controls. One example would be a chemical sensor and circuitry to sense femtoamps of current. Another would be a robotic system mainboard that uses an embedded processor, real-time operating system and FPGA's to control motion, sense inputs and communicate over a LAN.