
Field Service Engineer - GC/GCMS
CAFull-time$36.38–63.75/hrPosted 1w agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Agilent Field Service Engineers support customers in labs by installing, maintaining, and repairing GC and GCMS instruments, providing training, and ensuring optimal performance through proactive problem solving and strong communication.
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Job Description
Every day, Agilent Field Service Engineers help our customers to solve issues that enable scientists to make discoveries that enhance the quality of life. Through our work, we deliver insights and provide support that keep labs running smoothly and more efficiently. Join our dynamic organization to be a part of this rewarding work.
As a Field Service Engineer for Agilent, you will work at a variety of labs, so having an appetite for continuously learning about new instruments, software and consumables is key. Applying your communication skills, creativity and can-do attitude is essential. The ability to help with solving customer problems and a commitment to deliver the highest levels of customer service is how you will build customer success.
This position will be focused primarily on GC and GCMS products. Prior experience preferred.
Your Role:
- You will be responsible for supporting our customers with on-site installation, implementation, maintenance and repair of company and multi-vendor systems solutions. Our varied product lines include hardware, software and networking products as well as operating systems.
- Installs and optimizes hardware/software/network products and configurations at customer sites.
- Diagnoses and resolves product performance problems.
- Performs maintenance and repairs.
- Ensures customer satisfaction by advising customers on preventive maintenance and configurations, which may impact product performance.
- Proactively responds to potential equipment issues to prevent unplanned interruption of customers' business.
- Deliver fully integrated solutions, which may include peripherals, communications, operating systems and applications software.
- Train other field engineers and customers in the solutions.
Region covered: Greater Los Angeles area (LA, Orange, Ventura and Riverside Counties)
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or master's Degree within the science field – e.g. chemistry, analytical chemistry biochemistry, biotechnology preferred
- 1+ year of relevant experience in a service role or working with analytical chemistry instruments such as GC, GCMS preferred
- Experience with troubleshooting and problem solving
- Experience with the Agilent solutions is desired but not essential
- Verbal and written communication is clear, respectful and timely
- You enjoy travelling and visiting customers
Additional Details
This job has a full time weekly schedule. It includes the option to work remotely. Applications for this job will be accepted until at least July 7, 2026 or until the job is no longer posted. In the US, this position is eligible for choice of company car or reimbursement for personal vehicle usage.
The full-time equivalent pay range for this position is $36.38 - $63.75/hr plus eligibility for bonus, stock and benefits. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. During the hiring process, a recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for a preferred location. Pay and benefit information by country are available at: https://careers.agilent.com/locations
Agilent Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity and merit-based employer that values individuals of all backgrounds at all levels. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, religion or religious creed, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, local law, ordinance, or regulation and will not be discriminated against on these bases. Agilent Technologies, Inc., is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive in the workplace where everyone is welcome, and strives to support candidates with disabilities. If you have a disability and need assistance with any part of the application or interview process or have questions about workplace accessibility, please email [email protected] or contact +1-262-754-5030. For more information about equal employment opportunity protections, please visit www.agilent.com/en/accessibility.
Travel Required:
35% of the Time
Shift:
Day
Duration:
No End Date
Job Function:
Services & Support
How this job compares
Set against the 1,284 open Field Service Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$36.38–63.75/hr
- California median$29–45/hr42 hourly ranges
- US median$30–42/hr386 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $50.07/hr, is 37% above the California median midpoint ($37/hr) — in the top quarter of Field Service Engineer hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 117 open Field Service Engineer jobs in California and 1,284 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Field Service Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 924 postings).
- Education
- 360 of the 1,284 open Field Service Engineer jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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