Staff Engineer Software

Posted:
2/9/2026, 3:36:39 PM

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Remote

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job 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 Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, as a Staff Engineer, Software to make a meaningful impact. In this role, you will provide technical leadership and architectural guidance while developing innovative software solutions that enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Working in a supportive, multi-functional environment, you will design and implement sophisticated solutions across our product portfolio, from cloud platforms to scientific instrumentation. You will support the growth of other engineers, drive adoption of best practices, and help shape the technical direction of critical projects. This position offers the opportunity to work with advanced technologies while contributing to groundbreaking scientific discoveries.

REQUIREMENTS:
Discover Impactful Work:
Selected Candidate will work as Software Staff Engineer for Laboratory Equipment division on design and development, testing for ThermoFisher Products.
A day in the Life:
•    Staff Engineer will be responsible for leading a SW and FW subsystem as part of Product line for the LE CS Business Unit.
•    responsible for sustenance/NPD/NPD Support projects to ensure that the Electrical requirements are delivered on time with the right technical quality.
•    hands-on role and be ready to lead/work on projects. Ability to technically mentor and guide EE resources
Keys to Success:
Education
•    Masters or Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Science engineering or related field or equivalent from reputed College or University
Skills
•    14+ years overall experience with strong technical experience in C/C++/Qt/QML based Software design, architecture and implementation.

  • should have demonstrated proficiency in at least 3 production releases
  • Should have ability to understand system level Firmware, Software and electromechanical requirements and dependencies
  • Should have experience in addressing system level field issues, production challenges and quality issues
  • Experience in application development and Linux device driver development in kernel mode
  • Experience with Uboot, Buildroot or Yocto is required
  • Experience in design and development of User Interface on Qt/QML
  • Experience in Board bring up and OS porting is a plus
  • Very good with data structures, design patterns, object-oriented design and algorithms used in programming.
  • Experienced in various bus interfaces like CAN, SPI and I2C, protocol implementation
  • Prepare test plans, test results, design changes and provides inputs to meet the technical & product requirements.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Independently works on analysis and review of VoC to create technical specification
  • Prior experience on Design Verification testing, usage of tools to ensure code quality compliance
  • Driver code reuse through modularity and effectively deploys Gen AI to improve efficiency and productivity
  • Expertise in Agile development process, phase gate NPD process
  • Knowledge of Firmware development on are metal micro-controllers in C and C++
  • Experience in technically mentoring and monitoring small team of FW and SW engineers on day-to-day activities and meeting project KPIs
  • Perform technical reviews of source codes to ensure highest quality adherence
  • Adopt and Promote Innovation culture
  • Experience in cross collaboration with all internal and external stakeholders, make technical presentations, give crisp periodic status updates

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Website: https://www.thermofisher.com/

Headquarter Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 2006

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Bioinformatics ⋅ Biotechnology ⋅ Cloud Data Services ⋅ Consulting ⋅ Health Care ⋅ Life Science ⋅ Management Information Systems ⋅ Office Supplies ⋅ Precision Medicine