Sr Staff Architect, Software
Thermo Fisher Scientific2 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the software architecture and technical roadmap for Microarray Instrument software and analysis applications.
- Define component boundaries, interfaces, data flows, and integration strategies across instrument hardware, firmware, applications, and cloud components.
- Translate product, user, and operational needs into architecture requirements for performance, reliability, security, usability, maintainability, and serviceability.
- Architect instrument control and connected software, including acquisition and analysis workflows, applications, services, data management, and cloud functionality.
- Design AWS cloud services for device connectivity, messaging, storage, data processing, and analysis services.
- Lead architecture reviews, document technical decisions and tradeoffs, and help teams decompose complex technical problems.
- Guide software design, implementation, integration, verification, performance, failure handling, recovery, and product readiness.
- Partner with software, firmware, systems, assay, test, quality, security, manufacturing, and service teams to resolve cross-system and product lifecycle issues.
- Support development through technical reviews, prototypes, code contributions, and investigation of complex issues.
- Architect generative AI capabilities for customer-facing applications and internal productivity workflows, guiding them from discovery and prototyping through production.
- Define and apply practices for AI evaluation, privacy, security, access control, human review, monitoring, reliability, and fallback behavior.
- Coach engineers and technical leads and contribute to invention disclosures and intellectual property when appropriate.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including ownership of software architecture for complex products.
- Experience designing and delivering software integrated with instruments, embedded or edge systems, hardware, or other physical products.
- Experience designing cloud-connected applications or services on AWS, including decisions involving data storage, messaging, APIs, and security.
- Strong hands-on experience with C# and Microsoft .NET, plus experience with C and/or C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, AngularJS, Python, and Java for native, embedded, or instrument-facing components.
- Experience defining software interfaces and coordinating integration across multiple components or engineering teams.
- Experience with software delivery practices including source control, code review, automated testing, build and release systems, and CI/CD.
- Experience designing or delivering generative AI capabilities for customer-facing software and applying AI to internal workflows or productivity.
- Understanding of architecture and operational considerations for AI applications, including data grounding, output evaluation, privacy, security, reliability, and ongoing monitoring.
- Ability to communicate architecture decisions clearly and guide teams through technical tradeoffs.
- Preferred experience includes microarray systems, laboratory automation, scientific instruments, diagnostics, or other complex connected products.
- Preferred experience includes instrument control, embedded Linux, real-time systems, robotics, motion control, imaging, image processing, and optics.
- Preferred experience includes containers, serverless services, or microservices; regulated or quality-managed product development; manufacturing, deployment, field service, and maintenance; and contributions to patents, publications, open source, or technical communities.
Benefits
- Standard Monday–Friday work schedule in an office environment.
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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.