Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

How You’ll Make an Impact

As a Staff Systems Engineer supporting the CE and HID platforms, you will serve as the technical systems owner and subject matter expert for two on-market genetic analysis platforms manufactured at our Singapore site. While this role sits within R&D, its primary focus is sustaining engineering — ensuring robust system performance, manufacturability, and product quality throughout the lifecycle of these platforms.

You will work at the intersection of R&D, Manufacturing, Service, Quality, and Product Management, coordinating technical efforts across global teams to resolve manufacturing issues, investigate field quality events, identify VAVE opportunities, and develop system-level solutions that protect customer experience and business continuity. This is a hands-on role requiring deep system understanding, strong cross-functional leadership, and the ability to translate complex issues into practical, scalable engineering solutions.

What You’ll Do

Platform Ownership & Systems Expertise

• Develop and maintain deep system-level expertise for CE and HID platforms, spanning hardware, software, consumables, assays, and workflows.
• Serve as the primary R&D technical point of contact for sustaining, manufacturing, and on-market quality issues related to these platforms.
• Own system-level understanding of performance margins, failure modes, and integration risks across subsystems.

Sustaining Engineering & Problem Solving

• Lead and coordinate sustaining engineering efforts for both platforms, including issue triage, root-cause analysis, and corrective action development.
• Partner directly with Singapore-based Manufacturing and Tech Ops teams to resolve production issues, yield challenges, and field escalations.
• Support deviation assessments, risk evaluations, and implementation of design or process improvements.
• Drive timely containment and long-term solutions for on-market quality issues.
• Lead system-level root cause investigations for manufacturing non-conformances, field quality issues, and reliability concerns.

Manufacturing & Site Support

• Partner closely with Singapore-based Manufacturing, Tech Ops, and Quality teams to support production, yield improvement, and issue resolution on the factory floor.
• Provide on-site technical support for manufacturing issues as they arise, including hands-on system evaluation and integration testing.
• Support design transfer, manufacturing readiness, and long-term manufacturability of the platforms.

System Analysis & Problem Solving

• Apply systems engineering tools and methodologies (e.g., RCA, FMEA, DOE, fault tree analysis) to complex, cross-disciplinary problems.
• Perform system-level verification testing to validate fixes and ensure performance, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Evaluate design changes and manufacturing process updates for system-level impact and regulatory implications.
• Identify opportunities to improve platform robustness, manufacturing efficiency, and field reliability.
• Clearly document analyses, decisions, and outcomes through technical reports, presentations, and reviews.

Cross-Site & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Coordinate technical knowledge transfer and ongoing collaboration with subject matter experts located in the SF Bay Area and other global R&D sites.
• Work closely with CE and HID business unit Quality and Product Management teams to align technical solutions with business and regulatory needs.
• Pull in additional R&D technical resources (hardware, software, assay, reliability, service engineering) as needed to resolve complex system issues.

Systems Engineering Practices

• Apply systems engineering principles to sustaining activities, including requirements understanding and management, interface management, risk analysis, and verification.
• Develop system-level test strategies and verification plans to validate fixes and ensure no unintended impacts to performance, reliability, or compliance.
• Document technical analyses, design rationales, and solutions clearly for cross-functional and regulatory audiences.

How You’ll Get Here

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, or Software) or Applied Physics with 10+ years of relevant industry experience; or
• Master’s/Ph.D. with 5–7 years of experience developing complex life science instrumentation or diagnostic systems.

Technical Expertise

• Proven experience as a systems-level engineer supporting complex instruments through manufacturing and post-launch lifecycle phases.
• Strong background in system integration, verification, and troubleshooting across hardware, software, optics, fluidics, and consumables.
• Demonstrated use of systems engineering tools and methodologies such as requirements management, FMEA, DOE, RCA, and reliability analysis.
• Experience working in regulated environments (ISO 13485, FDA QSR, CE-IVD) strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with laboratory instrumentation, genetic analysis platforms, or forensic / sequencing systems is a plus.

Interpersonal & Leadership Attributes

• Self-directed engineer who thrives in ambiguous problem spaces and takes ownership of complex technical issues.
• Strong communicator capable of bridging R&D, Manufacturing, Service, Quality, and Product Management teams across geographies.
• Comfortable influencing without authority through technical credibility and systems-level thinking.
• Able to balance analytical depth with practical, execution-focused decision making.

Why Join Us

You’ll play a critical role in sustaining and improving platforms that deliver real-world impact in human identification and genetic analysis. At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll work alongside global experts, gain end-to-end platform ownership, and see your technical decisions directly influence manufacturing success and customer outcomes.