Principal R&D Engineer

ERII is seeking a qualified candidate for a full-time job opening for the position of Principal R&D Engineer, based in India, reporting to the Director, Product Design. The role will be a founding member of ERI’s India R&D team and will be remote until our India office is established.

The R&D department is a dynamic, global group of engineers and technicians with a wide range of backgrounds, several of them holding PhD and Masters degrees. We are looking for a talented and energetic Principal engineer who can thrive in a multi-national team environment and serve as a technical lead on R&D projects for New Technology and New Product development of fluid machinery in desalination, wastewater, and other industrial processes. The position requires a well-rounded expertise in development of fluid machines and other high-pressure fluid equipment, and a track record of taking products from concept through validation and release to manufacturing. A sound knowledge base in mechanics of fluids and solids is required. Experience across a combination of areas such as mechanical design, analytical & computational modeling, testing & experimental validation, and materials is strongly preferred. The candidate will work closely with R&D, product engineering and testing teams in the US and India to develop disruptive technologies and products based on our proprietary isobaric pressure exchangers. The position also requires strategic outlook for technology and products toward their commercial applications.