COMPANY_PROFILE:   The Internet revolution is fuelling a huge demand for faster, more powerful networks. This is where the Advanced Networks Division in Burnaby, British Columbia comes in. We develop high performance test solutions for industry-leading network equipment manufacturers and service providers. Our products play right at the core of the Internet and are helping to build the next generation of communications networks.

We are looking for people with a desire to be at the leading edge of technology and a passion for bringing great new products to market. Our world class R&D facility provides the opportunity to work with some of the industry's top engineers and have access to the best tools in the trade. To talented technical professionals, Agilent offers a flexible and fun environment, the opportunity for international travel and a compensation and benefit program that is among the best of high tech leaders in Canada.

Corporate Background

Agilent Technologies is a diversified technology company that provides solutions in the communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare industries. Formed from Hewlett-Packard's 1999 strategic realignment, Agilent currently operates as a subsidiary of HP. Agilent operates four businesses test and measurement, semiconductor products, healthcare solutions and chemical analysis, supported by a central laboratory. Its businesses excel in applying measurement technologies to develop products that sense, analyze, display and communicate data.

Agilent's Advanced Networks Division (AND) develops high performance test solutions for industry-leading network equipment manufacturers and service providers. Focusing on the test needs of emerging communications technologies keeps AND on the break of the successive technological waves which are transforming the communications industry.

A global division, AND has sites in Vancouver (Burnaby), British Columbia; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; and Melbourne, Australia. Our Burnaby product development team designs hardware and software for testing the routers that form the core of the Internet, advanced ATM switching systems, and MPEG-2 digital video systems. We recently received an Emmy award for our contributions to the advancement of digital television.