Staff Engineer, Software
Thermo Fisher Scientific1 day ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, develop, and deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions for bioprocessing, industrial automation, instrumentation, and process applications.
- Develop reusable software components, backend services, REST APIs, integration layers, data pipelines, libraries, and reference architectures.
- Integrate applications with industrial equipment, instruments, control systems, manufacturing systems, sensors, and actuators using industrial communication technologies.
- Design solutions for acquisition, processing, storage, visualization, and analysis of equipment, sensor, process, operational, and time-series data.
- Drive software engineering practices including object-oriented design, design patterns, code reviews, automated testing, source control, CI/CD, deployment, and lifecycle management.
- Address cybersecurity, data integrity, validation, software quality, reliability, and regulatory requirements for connected and regulated systems.
- Identify and implement AI/ML, generative AI, and advanced analytics opportunities for monitoring, anomaly detection, forecasting, predictive maintenance, troubleshooting, knowledge retrieval, and decision support.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture guidance, design reviews, technology evaluation, mentoring, troubleshooting, and technical decision-making.
- Lead solutions from architecture and proof of concept through productization, testing, deployment, and lifecycle support while driving reuse, standardization, automation, and engineering productivity.
Requirements
- 9–14 years of relevant experience in software engineering, industrial/process automation, electronics or electrical engineering, or related disciplines.
- Strong hands-on development experience with one or more of C#, .NET, Java, or Python.
- Strong knowledge of software architecture, object-oriented design, design patterns, multithreading, networking, APIs, data structures, system integration, and scalable application design.
- Experience developing backend services, REST APIs, data pipelines, and applications using relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Strong understanding of industrial/process automation, process control, instrumentation, sensors, actuators, control loops, process variables, and data acquisition.
- Working knowledge of PLC, SCADA, DCS, HMI, historians, MES, and industrial protocols including OPC UA, Modbus, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, or MQTT.
- Experience with automated testing, source control, CI/CD, build automation, deployment, and modern DevOps practices.
- Strong architecture, troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to translate business and product requirements into secure and scalable solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, influence architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML and generative AI, including anomaly detection, predictive analytics, LLMs, RAG, intelligent assistants, AI governance, security, privacy, and responsible AI practices.
- Experience in bioprocessing, life sciences, pharmaceutical manufacturing, biotechnology, laboratory or instrumentation products, or process industries is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of GxP, validation, data integrity, PAT, APC, soft sensors, digital twins, or model-based approaches is advantageous.
Benefits
- Standard Monday–Friday work schedule in an office 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.