Job Description
About Agilent
As a global leader in laboratory and clinical technologies, we are passionate about bringing great science to life. Our commitment to quality and innovation supports cutting-edge life science research, patient diagnostics, and ensures the safety of water, food, and pharmaceuticals. As scientists and clinicians pursue small, everyday advances and life-changing discoveries, we provide trusted answers to their most critical questions and challenges.
Leveraging more than 50 years of expertise, we create advanced instruments, software, and consumables supported by teams of highly skilled and knowledgeable people. With 18,000 employees around the world, our global reach and comprehensive solutions provide the most reliable and accurate results, as well as optimal scientific, economic, and operational outcomes. We work collaboratively with our customers on their journey to make a real difference in human lives. Our culture is founded on trust, respect, and uncompromising integrity, and we pride ourselves on being a dynamic and inclusive workplace that celebrates diversity and fosters innovation.
The Role
Agilent is looking for a highly talented, experienced Electrical Engineering Solutions Architect to leverage their product development knowledge at the enterprise level to serve as the point expert across Agilent. This role is responsible for driving functional engineering excellence via process and tool standardization, as well as execution oversight. This leader will actively establish a center of excellence and community of practice, serving as the primary electrical engineering architecture authority for modularization, reuse and development acceleration.
This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of product development across the enterprise, enabling world-class engineering capabilities and innovation velocity. You will play a pivotal role in building a unified, modern, high-performance R&D ecosystem that accelerates product development and scales the company’s technology advantage.
Beyond technical leadership, you will play a critical role in mentoring and developing engineers across the organization to function as an effective, collaborative unit. Acting as the primary electrical engineering enterprise champion for the team, the Electrical Engineering Solutions Architect removes barriers, accelerates decisions, and fosters a culture of empowerment across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Product Lifecycle Optimization
Accelerate the Product Lifecycle (PLC) across the organization by driving a single enterprise-wide best-practice of the electrical engineering ecosystem with standardized frameworks and governance.
Lead training, coaching, and change management to ensure adoption across all business groups.
Use KPIs and analytics to monitor performance and drive continuous improvement.
Engineering for Excellence
Define and maintain enterprise-level electrical engineering standards, tools, test methods, and design frameworks.
Lead the Electrical engineering Leadership Forum to drive alignment and best-practice sharing.
Partner with product and technology leaders to strengthen technical rigor and innovative culture.
Serve as a leadership role model across the organization, mentoring emerging leaders and promoting a high-performance culture that values accountability and collaboration.
Digital Tool Chain Management
Manage and modernize the end-to-end digital development tool chain and ensure enterprise modular design and hardware reuse.
Evaluate, deploy, and integrate common tools that enhance productivity and process efficiency.
Provide training and best-practice guidance to ensure consistent, effective tool usage
Shared Capability Development
Establish a electrical engineering design hub to enable scalable, high-quality engineering support.
Drive engineering initiatives to optimize development costs, architectural design deployment, accelerate time-to-market and effective transfer into manufacturing.
Optimize designs for supply chain stability and continued post-market production.
Qualifications
Education
Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. Master's degree or PhD preferred.
Experience
At least 10 years of growing responsibility in R&D technical engineering roles or a PhD in a relevant engineering discipline with 5 years of industry experience, with extensive, successful experience in product development
Demonstrated track record of leadership and delivering results
Experience leading globally distributed teams
Experience building organizational capability through coaching, training, governance, and continuous improvement.
Demonstrated success in cross-functional collaboration, influencing senior leaders, and driving alignment across diverse business groups.
Required Skills and Competencies
Strategic thinking and systems-level problem solving
Operational excellence and continuous improvement mindset
Strong communication, facilitation, and leadership presence
Ability to drive change in a distributed, multi-business group environment
Collaboration, relationship-building, and stakeholder influence
Technical depth and credibility with engineering organizations
