Open Positions
Picarro is always looking for quality-minded innovators in the fields of engineering, marketing and manufacturing.
- Global Sales
- Manufacturing Engineer
- Manufacturing Test Technician
- Mechanical Design Engineer
- Opto-mechanical Technician
- Sales Engineer
- Technical Support Engineer
Global Sales
Department: Sales
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Description:
Come join the Unique Picarro Team! We are seeking passionate business development leaders to help grow Picarro's customer base. You will be responsible for building Picarro's business on a global basis, and as such will be responsible for driving profitable top-line growth. The ideal candidate must be driven to succeed first and foremost, thinks big, loves meeting with customers, pursues large and small deals, and has great chemistry with the entire team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Creates and actively manages the development of specific sales plans pertinent to specific lines of business and accounts as necessary to reach objectives, profitable growth, and market share/image enhancement.
- Solve client problems by working closely with other members of the sales team and/or properly utilizing the experience within the broader Picarro organization.
- Identify and monitor customer trends in Green House Gas monitoring, Isotopic Water Analysis, CO2 Sequestration and top Picarro market segments. Gather and monitor information on competition, product enhancement ideas and market opportunities.
- Actively participates in business events and activities as a company representative; ensures positive image of the company/brand.
- A good listener who shows empathy and strives to make your customers experience one you would like to have. Build and maintain close relationships with customers and channel partners.
- Proactively identify and contact Picarro prospects to generate new business. Persuade customers on appropriate Picarro solutions that best satisfy their needs in terms of quality, price and performance.
- Forecasts sales, monitors results, and reports on effectiveness of sales activities.
- Develops and provides timely and accurate reports such as spreadsheets, correspondence, sales proposals, presentations, and internal paperwork for new customer proposals and presentations.
- Looking for growth and opportunity!
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (BS) or equivalent; MBA preferred in the fields of environmental science, biology, chemistry or physics highly desired.
- Results oriented team player with a "make it happen" attitude and drive for success in a fast paced environment.
- Energetic, highly motivated, unmatched drive and strong ability to influence others.
- Versatility, flexibility, and a willingness to work within constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm.
- Well-developed negotiation, project, account management and consultative sales skills.
- Strong organization, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Demonstrated ability to make successful presentations to individuals and/or groups at all levels of an organization.
- Proven leadership and business innovation skills.
- Proven ability to handle multiple projects and meet deadlines.
- Well traveled and versed in various countries/cultures. Some travel to global conferences and work shops required.
Salary will be commensurate with education and experience.
Please send your resume to recruiting@picarro.com.
Phone: (408) 962-3900
Manufacturing Engineer
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Summary:
Plans, directs, and improves manufacturing assembly processes for all of Picarro's instruments. The ME will strive to continuously improve processes in order to achieve optimal efficiency for manufacturing operations.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The following reflects management's definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.
- Resolve day-to-day production issues that may impede ability to ship quality products on time. Must be an experienced problem solver able to determine root cause of difficult technical issues.
- Supervise and train the production staff to ensure that they are working on the right things to meet the production plan and to make sure productivity remains high.
- Lead or participate in continuous improvement efforts relative to manufacturing operations efficiency and product quality.
- Reduce manufacturing costs by ensuring the highest quality at the best price. Evaluate and qualify new suppliers.
- Optimize product design for lowest cost and highest quality in collaboration with Engineering.
- Support the introduction of new products into manufacturing by working closely with engineering team.
- Establish processes and procedures and create assembly documentation of all project and test data within proper corporate databases.
- Review engineering designs and documentation for completeness, clarity and manufacturability.
- Prepares all required reports and paperwork.
- Assists with related special projects as required.
- Promotes a safe work environment, address corrective actions where hazards are identified and provide recommendations to correct any unsafe practices.
- Performs other duties as assigned by manager.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (B.S.) in EE, ME Physics or equivalent
- Three + years experience in a high tech manufacturing environment
- Hands-on experience with various types of optical test equipment, including power meters, optical imaging equipment, beam quality test equipment and oscilloscopes
- Understanding and hands-on experience with basic optical elements including lenses, mirrors, polarizer's, apertures, and optical filters, as well as basic optical design and system alignment techniques
- Commitment to excellence and high standards
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills
- Ability to manage priorities and workflow
- Versatility, flexibility, and a willingness to work within constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm
- Acute attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to plan and organize projects
- Ability to work independently and as a member of various teams and committees
- Proficient on: MS Office, MS Project, Visio and Windows OS
- Must be able to understand engineering drawings, Bills of Materials, and operational procedures
- Must have experience writing and reviewing Engineering Change Orders
- Experience developing manufacturing processes, writing procedures, and training assembly personnel
- Understanding of statistical measurements and data analysis
- Proven ability to handle multiple projects and meet deadlines
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Good judgement with the ability to make timely and sound decisions
- Creative, flexible, and innovative team player
- Ability to direct and recommend cost-effective creative solutions
- Ability to work on complex projects with general direction and minimal guidance.
- Experience implementing LEAN manufacturing processes, ERP, PLM systems and SolidWorks software a plus
Mental/Physical Requirements:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to do the following:
- Coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously
- Collect, interpret, and/or analyze complex data and information
- Utilize visual acuity to operate equipment, read technical information, and/or use a keyboard
Salary will be commensurate with education and experience.
Please send your resume to recruiting@picarro.com.
Phone: (408) 962-3900
Manufacturing Test Technician
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Description:
Picarro is looking for an experienced test technician for production and prototype system testing. The trace gas analyzer is comprised of an optical cavity and control electronics and hardware. The test technician responsibility will primarily be the testing subassemblies and the integration and testing of the finished analyzer system. Good data analysis skills and attention to detail are essential along with the ability to read instrument output (oscilloscope, power meters, etc.). Beyond these primary responsibilities, the ideal candidate will be capable of a wide range computer skills and hardware debugging capabilities covering a variety of subassemblies of the product.
Qualifications:
- >2 years experience as a system test technician working in a production or prototype environment.
- Experience with instrumentation test
- Experience with optical and electrical instrumentation (oscilloscope, power meter, power supplies)
- Experience with using Microsoft Excel for data analysis
- Strong verbal communications skills for effective interaction with manufacturing engineering.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently.
- Good teamwork skills.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Testing of optical subassemblies.
- Integration of hardware and electronics in the system.
- Testing and final certification of finished gas analyzer instruments.
Salary will be commensurate with education and experience.
Please send your resume to recruiting@picarro.com.
Phone: (408) 962-3900
Mechanical Design Engineer
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Description:
The Mechanical Design Engineer (MDE) will play an important role in the development and manufacture of advanced ultra-sensitive, field-deployable, real-time molecular analyzers with parts-per-billion sensitivity, based on an all-optical technique called Wavelength Scanned Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy (WS-CRDS). The MDE will take a leadership role in the development of new ultra-trace and stable isotope instrumentation and instrument peripherals, maintaining high standards for quality, performance, and ease of use, and high volume manufacturability. In addition, the MDE will be responsible for improving and maintaining tooling and fixturing necessary, with an eye toward process streamlining, touch time reduction, and yield improvement. We are seeking an individual who is comfortable and excited about working in a start-up environment, specifically with regard to working across traditional job boundaries. The MDE will be a key part of a vibrant and innovative technical team comprised of several engineers and scientists. Direct experience in advanced mechanical design and engineering in a manufacturing setting, especially product-level instrument design, is a must. Other skills, such ergonomic / industrial design practices, fluid handling, and/or machine shop experience, is desirable.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead mechanical design projects for new product lines and peripherals that are inexpensive, high performance, and highly reliable, and are both easy to use and simple to manufacture, and transfer and support these designs in the manufacturing environment.
- Work with our manufacturing team to continually improve manufacturing efficiency and throughput, and reduce operator touch time, through the design and manufacture of improved tooling and fixtures.
- Make continual improvements to our standard product line which reduce cost, improve manufacturability, improve performance, and/or increase the reliability and robustness of our product. Qualifications:
- > 4 years experience in mechanical design engineering. Experience in instrument design for volume production is strongly preferred.
- Expert proficiency in a 3-D CADD design software package is required. Experience in SolidWorks strongly preferred.
- Strong communications skills are essential, both written and oral.
- Must possess the ability to work across functional boundaries and organizational levels inside the company.
- Minimum education is a B.S. in mechanical engineering or design.
- Salary will be commensurate with education and experience.
- Please provide references and examples of work.
Salary will be commensurate with education and experience.
Please send your resume to recruiting@picarro.com.
Phone: (408) 962-3941
Opto-mechanical Technician
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Description:
Picarro is looking for an experienced opto-mechanical technician for production and prototype optical assembly builds. The optical assembly is comprised of an external cavity and several optical components (lenses, prisms, and detectors) which are to be placed during active optical alignment using the output from typical fiber coupled 1550 nm telecom DFB laser. Good hand-eye coordination and attention to detail are essential along with the ability to read instrument output (oscilloscope, power meters, beam profiler, video camera) during the placement of critical optical components. Beyond these primary skills, the ideal candidate will be capable of a wide range of assembly procedures covering a variety of subassemblies of the product.
Qualifications:
- >2 years experience as opto-mechanical technician working in a production or prototype environment.
- Experience with active optical alignment procedures
- Experience with optical and electrical instrumentation (oscilloscope, power meter, power supplies)
- Experience with UV and thermally cured epoxy attach procedures of optical components
- Computer skills including Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Strong verbal communications skills for effective interaction with manufacturing engineering.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently.
- Good teamwork skills.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Fabrication of laser ring cavity and/or wavelength monitor subassemblies.
Salary will be commensurate with education and experience.
Please send your resume to recruiting@picarro.com.
Phone: (408) 962-3900
Sales Engineer
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Description:
The primary role of the position is to provide an immediate impact on company sales by generating new business through customer acquisition and increasing incremental sales, in an assigned territory or market segment. The position will drive and accelerate the company's inbound and outbound sales activity while contributing to the success of Picarro's direct and indirect sales channels.
Key Responsibilities:
- Proactively identify and contact Picarro prospects to generate new business.
- Listen to customers and use astute questioning to understand, anticipate and exceed their needs.
- Able to overcome technical and business objections to create win-win solutions.
- Solve client problems by working closely with other members of the sales team and/or properly utilizing the experience within the broader Picarro organization.
- Persuade customers on appropriate Picarro solutions that best satisfy their needs in terms of quality, price and performance.
- Craft customer proposals and negotiate options to meet both customer and company needs
- Build and maintain close relationships with customers and channel partners.
- Identify and monitor customer trends in Green House Gas monitoring, Isotopic Water Analysis, CO2 Sequestration and top Picarro market segments based upon incoming information.
- Relay pertinent customer feedback on product enhancement ideas and market opportunities
Qualifications:
- Consultative sales and/or telesales experience in a business-to-business environment with a proven track record of sales performance.
- Quota carrying experience with analytical instrumentation sales a plus.
- Energetic, highly motivated and strong ability to influence others.
- Some formal sales training is desired.
- Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics or related science fields.
- Knowledge of the operation of academic research processes and/or laboratories, air/water testing requirements and procedures, and air quality control regulations that apply to Picarro customers.
- Ability to patiently and efficiently guide customers through the technical and applications issues associated with pre-sale of products/services
- A results oriented, team player with the drive to succeed and highly motivated to learn in a faced paced, entrepreneurial environment
- Career oriented and inclined toward novel technologies and analytical problem solving.
Salary will be commensurate with education and experience.
Please send your resume to recruiting@picarro.com.
Phone: (408) 962-3936
Technical Support Engineer
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Description:
We have the Coolest Customers on Earth. Our technical support engineers provide them with the highest level of support – for both applications and instrument related issues. We are building the most innovative, efficient and responsive service organization in the industry and are looking for people who are hands-on, willing to look at projects with a fresh perspective and are undaunted by exciting challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
- Receive incoming field questions and help respond by providing detailed technical research, answers and documents.
- Be proactive, look for problems before they surface; fix them.
- Work closely with other members of the organization to solve problems properly and effectively.
- Adopt and use industry leading diagnostic tools to make us the fastest responders.
- Help our customers help each other – work to develop links between customers to share advice and experience.
- Identify and monitor trends in the market we serve.
- Develop print, eprint and video tools that can be broadcast quickly.
- Ability to be a good listener, and to really understand customer problems or questions and help them solve it.
- Evaluate Picarro technology in comparison to our competitors' technology and create compelling sales tools that help highlight our advantages.
- Receive incoming field questions and customer documents and help respond by providing detailed technical research, answers and documents.
- Maintain current and in-depth knowledge of the entire Picarro product line.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (BS) or equivalent; preferred in the fields of environmental science, biology, chemistry or physics highly desired.
- Experience in a customer support role, preferably using...
- Results oriented team player with a "make it happen" attitude and drive for success in a fast paced environment.
- Energetic, highly motivated, unmatched drive and strong ability to influence others.
- Versatility, flexibility, and a willingness to work within constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm.
- Some travel to customer sites and global conferences required.
- Strong organization, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Demonstrated ability to make successful presentations to individuals and/or groups at all levels of an organization.
- Proven ability to handle multiple projects and meet deadlines.
- Ability to maintain focus while working under tight deadlines.
- Self-starter that can work independently, make necessary decisions and follow through with action plans.
Salary will be commensurate with education and experience.
Please send your resume to recruiting@picarro.com.
Phone: (408) 962-3936