What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Scientist position at Waters Corporation?
Overview
The Senior Application Scientist will lead application-driven product validation and development for light scattering technologies, ensuring performance and readiness for product launches. This role also supports customer success through technical expertise, training, and scientific content development, serving as a key link between R&D, Product Management, and customers.
Responsibilities
Product Validation & Development
Qualifications
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
The Senior Application Scientist will lead application-driven product validation and development for light scattering technologies, ensuring performance and readiness for product launches. This role also supports customer success through technical expertise, training, and scientific content development, serving as a key link between R&D, Product Management, and customers.
Responsibilities
Product Validation & Development
- Design and execute validation studies, methods, and workflows for new products.
- Partner with R&D to evaluate performance, identify gaps, and drive improvements.
- Generate validation reports and application data to support release readiness.
- Support beta testing and contribute to product launch materials.
- Author application notes, user guides, and technical content.
- Support launches with data, messaging, and webinars.
- Support product marketing initiatives.
- Provide expert technical support and troubleshoot application challenges.
- Support documentation for installation, onboarding, and advanced use cases.
- Partner with Sales and Service to resolve complex issues.
- Develop and deliver customer and field training programs.
- Create and maintain training content and application workflows.
- Be a principal instructor in our Light Scattering University in-house training program and help develop and update course materials.
Qualifications
- Ph.D. or M.S. in Chemistry, Biophysics, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or related field.
- Hands-on experience with macromolecule or nanoparticle characterization techniques (especially optical or HPLC), instrumentation and software; experience with light scattering detectors is highly desirable. Experience with Waters | Wyatt instruments would be ideal!
- Strong experience in experimental design, method development, and data analysis.
- Proven ability to translate applications into product requirements or validation criteria.
- Excellent communication and technical writing skills.
- Willingness to travel up to 25%.
- Hands-on experience with light scattering techniques (DLS, SLS, MALS).
- Familiarity with product validation, verification, or regulated environments (GxP).
- Experience creating training programs and delivering technical instruction.
- Prior involvement in product launches or beta programs.
- Please note if you are hired at our Milford, MA location, quarterly travel to Goleta, CA is required.
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.