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 will include:

Laboratory & Technical Leadership

·       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.

Research & Innovation

·       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.

Communication

·       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.

Collaboration

·       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 interfaces 

·       Department technical staff (Engineers/Scientists/Technicians)

·       Department management

·       US Government Technical staff

Key competencies

·       Safety-first mentality

·       Intellectual curiosity and innovation mindset

·       Technical rigor and attention to detail

·       Clear and confident presenter

·       Collaborative and team-oriented