Senior Field Engineering Specialist - Mass Spectrometry - Chicago — Roche
- Location
- La Roche
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring.
Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally.
This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come.
- At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring.
- Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally.
Application process
- You will also bridge the gap between engineering and applications workflows—training customer operators nationally, guiding application optimization, and serving as a senior technical mentor across the Roche Support Network.
- As a Senior Field Engineering Specialist, you will:
- Serve as National Technical SME: Act as the primary national escalation point for the installation, advanced service, calibration, and root-cause repair of cobas i601 mass spectrometry platforms across customer laboratories nationwide. Master Mass Spec & LC
- Hardware Engineering: Diagnose and repair specialized hardware, including ultra-high vacuum (UHV) pumps, atmospheric pressure ionization (ESI/APCI) sources, electromagnetic ion optics, oscillating RF/DC quadrupoles, and high-pressure/ultra-high pressure LC pumps operating at thousands of PSI.
- Lead Advanced Maintenance: Perform deep molecular-pathway preventive maintenance, including rebuilding and oiling vacuum pumps, cleaning ion sources and sampling capillaries, replacing LC columns, and optimizing detector/mass resolution settings.
- Applications & Workflow Integration: Cross-over into application workflow support by analyzing Total Ion Chromatograms (TIC), mass spectra (m/z ratios), isotopic distributions, and mass calibration tuning logs to diagnose root-cause hardware or separation issues.
- National Application & Technical Training: Deliver master-level technical and application workflow training to clinical lab personnel and internal service teams nationwide, covering platform operation, maintenance, fluidic care, vacuum integrity, and advanced troubleshooting.
- Contamination & Science-Based Troubleshooting: Resolve complex issues at the intersection of engineering and chemistry, such as chemical matrix suppression, isobaric cross-talk, micro-fluidic solvent leaks, and airborne chemical contamination (e.g., silicones/phthalates) affecting detector response.
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- Senior Field Engineering Specialist – Mass Spectrometry A healthier future.
- That’s what makes us Roche.
- Serve as National Technical SME: Act as the primary national escalation point for the installation, advanced service, calibration, and root-cause repair of cobas i601 mass spectrometry platforms across customer laboratories nationwide. Master Mass Spec & LC
Notes and original content
- The Position
- Senior Field Engineering Specialist – Mass Spectrometry
- A healthier future.
- The Opportunity
- Serve as National Technical SME: Act as the primary national escalation point for the installation, advanced service, calibration, and root-cause repair of cobas i601 mass spectrometry platforms across customer laboratories nationwide.
- Master Mass Spec & LC
Questions about this listing
What salary does Roche offer for this role?
Roche lists CHF 99'500 - 151'000 gross per year for this position in La Roche. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Roche offer?
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