Sr. Electronis Engineer, Firmware
Thermo Fisher Scientific2 months ago
Guangzhou, ChinaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain firmware for scientific instrument platforms during new product development and sustaining engineering.
- Develop firmware for instrument control, data acquisition, motion control, communications, and hardware interfaces.
- Design reliable, maintainable, and scalable firmware architectures for embedded control systems.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers on board bring-up, hardware integration, and system debugging.
- Collaborate with software engineers during system debugging.
- Support embedded software development for mass spectrometry, scanning electron microscopy, chromatography, spectroscopy, and other analytical instruments.
- Participate in firmware and hardware verification, validation, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- Contribute to firmware best practices, code reviews, technical documentation, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership on firmware development.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Automation, or a related discipline.
- Typically 8+ years of firmware development experience, especially with scientific instruments or medical devices.
- Experience programming MCU platforms, including ARM Cortex-M/A.
- Strong C programming skills and knowledge of firmware architecture and engineering principles.
- Familiarity with SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, USB, and Ethernet communication protocols.
- Experience with FPGA interaction, high-speed data acquisition, and instrument communication.
- Experience using JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and software debuggers.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for resolving complex system-level issues.
- Effective communication within cross-functional engineering teams.
- Preferred experience with scientific or analytical instrumentation, motion control, motor control, precision automation, complete NPI projects, product launches, sustaining engineering, product enhancement, Python, C#, AI-assisted programming, mentoring, or leading technical firmware projects.
Benefits
- Standard Monday-Friday work schedule.
- Office-based work environment.
About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific builds analytical instruments, lab equipment and consumables, specialty diagnostics, and provides pharma services (CDMO and clinical research) for biotech, pharma, academic, and healthcare customers. It earns revenue through product sales, e-commerce distribution (Fisher Scientific), and contract services under brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Patheon, and PPD. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (TMO) and was created by the 2006 merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific.