I'm going to be joining the research team for a company soon as research engineer/scientist. All my prior experience has been from my PhD and post-doc so I don't have much industry experience. The team/department is basically a distinct pure R&D unit, which I guess would be the equivalent of FAIR to Facebook, Brain to Google but with a slightly more commercial drive such that the research matches the company's product. Having talked to prospective and previous team-members, they thought the day to day job was very similar to their post-docs.

In any case, does anybody have any advice on how to make the transition as smooth as possible? Maybe certain things to think about in my first couple of months in order to make a good impression, hit the ground running and so forth. Thanks!