Assistant research engineer vs research and development engineer

Differences between assistant research engineer and research and development engineer duties and responsibilities

Assistant research engineer example responsibilities.

• Organize and manage multi-disciplinary teams of scientists, business and other professionals to successfully commercialize NASA and other technology.
• Experience with working with instruments like SEM.
• Modify LabVIEW control system to accommodate system changes during the system redesign.
• Design and fabricate testing fixtures and molds using SolidWorks and machining equipment.
• Used LabVIEW to measure pressure transducers -debug and solve driving motor system of research apparatus
• Perform FEA static and seismic (response spectrum and time history) analysis of underground structures.
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Research and development engineer example responsibilities.

• Manage, design, and assist in development of product family reusable code libraries, visualization and GUI components.
• Manage test suite jobs for the team creating configurations and building binaries for C++ code using Jenkins and bash shell.
• Charge with managing a range of key operational functions in support of 3D visualization studio with $1.3M in annual contracts.
• Lead a team of software QA test engineers in the prioritization and assignment of tasks and the solving of technical problems.
• Manage quality issues during development/production and ensure ISO compliance.
• Manage and maintain production equipment, including conformance to ISO calibration requirements.
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