Digital Automation Staff Engineer
Thermo Fisher Scientific3 days ago
Base Salary
$115k - $153k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with operations and process owners to select projects, define workflows and requirements, establish acceptance criteria, and assess site readiness.
- Design, code, test, and deploy custom manufacturing applications, reusable services, data pipelines, and user interfaces.
- Configure, extend, and integrate off-the-shelf manufacturing software using build, reuse, buy, or outsourcing decisions.
- Own technical integration with equipment, manufacturing systems, ERP, and enterprise systems of record.
- Collaborate with IT on infrastructure, identity, networking, cybersecurity, enterprise integration, architecture, monitoring, backup, recovery, and data integrity.
- Develop risk-based testing and validation evidence, execute user acceptance testing, and manage controlled changes.
- Lead pilot releases, production deployments, troubleshooting, user training, documentation, release procedures, and support ownership.
- Assess digital assets for reuse, build reusable modules and reference architectures, and transfer knowledge to local support teams.
- Measure deployment time, lifecycle cost, adoption, reliability, and manufacturing outcomes while mentoring site teams and improving cross-site deployment playbooks.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, or Systems Engineering, or equivalent qualified experience.
- At least 7 years of software, digital, or automation engineering experience involving hands-on custom development, platform configuration and integration, and manufacturing deployment, adoption, and support.
- At least 2 years supporting multiple sites is preferred, ideally in life sciences, biotechnology, medical devices, or another regulated manufacturing environment.
- Strong skills in modular software design, APIs, version control, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and production troubleshooting.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing workflows, MES/EBR concepts, structured data models, contextualization, and shop-floor/enterprise integration.
- Hands-on experience with Python, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, APIs, manufacturing platforms, workflow configuration, and systems integration.
- Hands-on experience with industrial data brokers, OPC UA, MQTT, unified namespace, and edge/cloud integration.
- Experience with user acceptance testing, risk-based validation, access controls, audit trails, and controlled releases.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans with health incentive programs.
- Employee assistance and family support programs, commuter benefits, and tuition reimbursement.
- At least 120 hours of paid time off, 10 paid holidays, paid parental leave, accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan and an employee stock purchase plan.
- Standard Monday-Friday schedule; remote candidates may be considered, with preference for candidates near listed Thermo Fisher facilities.
- Office-based conditions may require safety glasses, gowning, gloves, a lab coat, ear plugs, or other PPE.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.