Senior Research Scientist, R+D
Location: St. Louis Missouri
Description: Bausch & Lomb is currently seeking to employ Senior Research Scientist, R+D right now, this career will be placed in Missouri. For complete informations about this career opportunity kindly read the description below. Purpose: Lead short term core competency and feasibility projects for next generation design proposals. Participate as principal contributor in larger feasibility p! rojects with management direction Must have good expertise in at least one broad discipline, such as mechanics or physics and be familiar with other disciplines. Must be capable of identifying innovative concepts and applications from other domains that may have application within lens and vitreous removal, and must be able to reduce these to practice in the lab quickly for evaluation of feasibility. Must be able to formulate clear questions and devise experiments to answer those questions.
Must follow good laboratory and experimental documentation practices. Must be able to research current art thoroughly and identify opportunities for innovation in gaps in the current state of the art. Must be able to organize and clearly present complex scientific and technical information effectively through charts, graphs and written reports. Must flexible and willing to investigate concepts proposed by management.
Will be contributing in a team environment and must u! nderstand and anticipate the viewpoints of all team members, w! hile identifying a best path forward. Must willingly accept and act on team consensus decisions that do not conform with the individual’s own perspective. Must be capable of setting priorities, planning work, directing technician resources and executing independently. Must be responsive to changes in priorities.
Must accept re-direction quickly and willingly. Must demonstrate attention to detail. Specific Job Duties Specification and Modeling: Model handpiece and fluidic portions of current product offerings with the goal of understanding the underlying principals and identifying innovative alternatives. Develop and validate computational and physical models of patient eye environment and the user environment critical to invention in core competency areas of functional surgical interfaces.Testing and Experimentation: Formulate clearly defined problem statements that facilitate the development of effective tests.
Design tests, build test equipment and exe! cute tests to support scientifically defensible answers to the questions. Draft white papers and presentations on the results of the analysis and testing. Develop visual aids (such as high speed imagery) for communicating key innovation concepts to laypersons.Invention and innovation: Document new concepts, draft and file invention releases and patent applications, and reduce patent concepts to practice.Planning: Complete new project feasibility reports in support of new product or design extension development projects, including all necessary information for product definition.Bausch + Lomb is one of the best-known and most respected healthcare brands in the world, offering the widest and finest range of eye health products including contact lenses and lens care products, pharmaceuticals, intraocular lenses and other eye surgery products. The company is solely dedicated to protecting and enhancing the gift of sight for millions of people around the world â€" from the momen! t of birth through every phase of life.
Our mission is simp! le yet powerful: Helping you see better to live better.Bausch + Lomb is an equal opportunity employer. Qualifications Education: PhD in Physics, Material Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Biomedical Engineering, or an equivalent discipline, or an MS and a proven track record in invention, investigation and new product innovation.Experience: 2+ years of invention and new product innovation.Special Skills: Must be able formulate clear questions and simple tests to answer those questions. Must be adept at reducing concepts to practice in the lab.
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This career starts available on: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:35:04 GMT