Senior Staff Systems Engineer
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Senior Staff Systems Engineer
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Makes lab instruments, reagents and supplies
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)Environmental Conditions
OfficeJob Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
DESCRIPTION:
Join our team at Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Sr Staff Engineer, Systems Design. In this role, you'll develop innovative solutions across multiple technology platforms, from concept through implementation. Guide the technical direction of complex scientific instrumentation development while collaborating with cross-functional teams. You'll architect system-level solutions, provide technical leadership for product development initiatives, and support engineering teams. This position offers the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to advanced technologies that help our customers advance scientific discovery and improve health outcomes.
REQUIREMENTS:
• Advanced Degree plus 12 years of experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 15 years of experience in instrument design or related engineering industries.
• Preferred Fields of Study: Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Physics, Optical Engineering or related field)
• Proven expertise in electron microscope principle and system architecture.
• Deep technical knowledge and hands-on experience in at least one of the following areas:
-- High-voltage, high-precision power supply design
-- Precision motion control systems
-- High-vacuum systems
• Strong background in multiple engineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical, software, optics)
• Experience leading complex product development projects from concept through manufacturing
• Record of developing innovative technical solutions for scientific instrumentation
• Expertise in structured design methodologies (DFMEA, DOE, RCA)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Excellence in technical documentation and specification development
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Ability to support and develop engineering talent
• Experience working in regulated environments (UL, IEC, agency certifications)
• Success working in matrix organizations
• Fluency in English required; additional languages beneficial
• Ability to travel up to 25% as needed
Makes lab instruments, reagents and supplies
Thermo Fisher Scientific makes and sells the instruments, chemicals, consumables and lab services that drug companies, hospitals, universities and industrial labs use for research, testing and production. Its products cover work from gene sequencing and protein analysis to diagnostic tests and lab freezers, and its distribution arm ships supplies to labs worldwide. Drug developers also hire it to run clinical trials and to manufacture medicines under contract. It earns money from consumables that labs buy again and again, along with instrument sales, service contracts and outsourcing fees. The company traces its roots to Thermo Electron, founded in 1956, which merged with Fisher Scientific in 2006, and it is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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