Engineer III, Software
Thermo Fisher Scientific2 days ago
Winsford, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement software applications that control electron microscopes and analytical instruments.
- Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and domain experts across international and cross-functional teams.
- Translate complex technical and scientific requirements into software solutions.
- Contribute to software testing, continuous integration and deployment, version control, and build processes.
- Support hardware connectivity, troubleshooting, documentation, and industrial protocol integration.
- Coordinate cross-functional technical work and travel occasionally for collaboration with global teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or an advanced degree with the applicable experience.
- At least 3 years of commercial software development experience with an advanced degree, or 5 years with a bachelor’s degree.
- Strong proficiency in modern C++, C#, VB.NET, or Python.
- Expertise in object-oriented design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience with automated testing, test-driven development, continuous integration/deployment tools and practices, and version control systems such as Git and GitHub.
- Experience with microservices architecture, containerization, virtual servers, and build servers.
- Background in scientific application development and familiarity with spectrometry or related analytical techniques.
- Knowledge of serial communication, OPC-UA, MOD-Bus, and connectivity protocols.
- Moderate understanding of hardware and basic electronics, including troubleshooting and documentation.
- Basic project management experience involving cross-functional coordination and planning.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, written, verbal, and collaborative communication skills.
- Ability to understand complex technical and scientific requirements and work independently while supporting team members.
- Strong English communication skills.
Benefits
- Standard Monday–Friday work schedule in an office environment.
- Occasional travel of approximately 5–10% for collaboration with global teams.
- Ability to lift 40 lbs. without assistance and adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices safety standards are required.
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.