Senior Scientist

Purpose of the position

Linde Special Projects in New Providence, NJ is seeking a Senior Staff Scientist with a background in Physics, Physical chemistry, Engineering, or a closely related field. This individual will play a key role in advancing our laboratory instrumentation, optimizing internal processes, and driving innovation across research projects. The ideal candidate combines strong theoretical knowledge with practical laboratory experience and thrives in a collaborative, research-driven environment.

Principal responsibilities

• Learn and master existing laboratory processes, instrumentation, and workflows.
• Analyze current systems and identify opportunities for performance improvement, reliability enhancement, and data quality.
• Design, prototype, test, and validate improvements to laboratory instrumentation and measurement systems.
• Develop and refine experimental methods and data acquisition systems.
• Comply with Linde safety policies and other regulatory requirements.
• Generate new research concepts and technical approaches to improve instrumentation and experimental methodologies.
• Lead or contribute to research projects from concept through implementation and validation.
• Conduct feasibility studies, modeling, simulation, and experimental validation as required.
• Interface with key stakeholders, including department technical staff, management, and US government technical staff.
• Prepare clear, data-driven technical reports and presentations and present project updates and technical recommendations to our sponsor and collaborators.
• Translate complex technical results into actionable recommendations for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Work closely with internal and external scientists, engineers, and technicians on multidisciplinary research projects.
• Support troubleshooting and root-cause investigations for instrumentation or process issues.

Key competencies

• Safety-first mentality
• Intellectual curiosity and innovation mindset
• Technical rigor and attention to detail
• Clear and confident presenter
• Collaborative and team-oriented
• Decisiveness & Task execution
• Process, Project & Risk Management
• Employee Development & Empowerment

Required Qualifications

• M.S. or Ph.D. with 3 years experience in Physics, Physical Chemistry, Engineering, or related field.
• Candidates at the BA level with 7-10+ years will be considered.
• Strong foundations in the following: Spectroscopy, Analog and digital electronics, Signal processing, Instrumentation and measurement systems.
• Hands-on experience one or more of the following: Gas handling systems, Vacuum technology, Radiation detection systems/Geiger–Müller counting.
• Experience designing, troubleshooting, and improving electronic systems.
• Demonstrated ability to independently design and execute experiments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain DOD secret level security clearance (This requires US citizenship).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with high-voltage systems and low-noise signal measurement.
• Familiarity with data acquisition systems (DAQ) and embedded systems.
• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., SQL, Access).
• Programming experience (e.g., Python, LabVIEW, C/C++).
• Experience working directly with customers.
• Project management experience in a research or technical environment.

About the role

Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. (LG&E) is part of the largest Welding, Industrial, Medical, and Specialty Gases companies in the U.S. We carry a comprehensive selection of industrial gases, such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and carbon dioxide, etc. LG&E has an extensive network of production plants, retail stores, distribution centers, and customer service locations with a focus on making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful by helping to sustain and protect our planet.

Benefits

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.