Staff Engineer Software

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

Thermo Fisher Scientific aims to help customers improve global health and safety in a united, diverse team.

The Software Services team applies guidelines to building, developing, and launching software products.

You should excel throughout the entire development process-from identifying requirements and prototyping, through composing and implementation, to customer acceptance, delivery, and support. You have a strong enthusiasm for crafting top-notch software solutions, excel in a fast-paced environment, and are enthusiastic about mentoring and guiding teams while making significant technical decisions.

Purpose

We need a hands-on Staff Engineer and Technical Lead to guide system architecture, design decisions, and mentor engineers, encouraging technical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in scrum ceremonies such as story grooming, sprint planning, and development discussions.
• Take ownership of software modules, ensuring quality and timely delivery.
• Define and drive system architecture, build patterns, and coding standards across projects.
• Provide technical leadership and decision-making on complex engineering challenges.
• Contribute to implementation, automated unit and integration testing, debugging, and integration of highly complex code.
• Establish and maintain detailed and accurate documentation of all work.
• Proactively explore ways to automate testing and boost developer efficiency.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, encouraging a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Harness generative AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to boost efficiency, composition, and implementation.

Candidate Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 8-10 years of software development experience, including 2+ years in a leadership role.

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Hands-on expertise in Advanced C++ (C++11 and later) and MFC for desktop and embedded application development.
• Strong proficiency in C#.NET for system and application development.
• Profound understanding of data structures, algorithms, composition templates, and UML.
• Solid understanding of system architecture and large-scale software development.
• Experience with databases, persistence frameworks, and SQL.
• Shown capability in supervising, advising, and steering teams towards technical brilliance.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Ability to work effectively with remote and globally distributed teams.
• Broad awareness of industry trends and new technologies, with ability to apply them creatively.
• Experience using unit testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools.
• Direct involvement with generative AI tools for code composition, assessment, and efficiency.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Background in flow cytometry or other life sciences instrument domains.
• Experience in instrument software development within clinical or research settings.
• Exposure to cloud platforms, distributed systems, and analytics toolsets.