Staff, Systems Design – System Architect
Thermo Fisher Scientific21 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead firmware architecture and technical design for instrument controllers, embedded electronics, and electro-mechanical subsystems.
- Define hardware abstraction, firmware boundaries, interfaces, real-time behavior, and controller communications.
- Translate system and product requirements into firmware requirements, architecture specifications, interface-control documents, and implementation plans.
- Architect firmware for motion control, sensor acquisition, actuator control, fluidics, thermal control, optical systems, diagnostics, safety monitoring, and error recovery.
- Establish reusable firmware platforms, coding standards, design patterns, and technical-review practices.
- Partner with electrical, mechanical, systems, and embedded software teams through board bring-up, integration, verification, release, and sustaining support.
- Lead root-cause analysis for complex firmware, electronics, timing, communication, reliability, and field issues.
- Define firmware verification strategies including unit, integration, hardware-in-the-loop, fault-injection, and system-level testing.
- Guide firmware debugging, performance optimization, and hardware/software interface validation.
- Mentor firmware engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple development teams.
- Influence firmware platform roadmaps, component reuse, development tooling, and engineering-process improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field plus 8 years of experience, or an advanced degree plus 6 years of experience.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering firmware for complex products with embedded controllers, sensors, actuators, and electronics.
- Strong proficiency in C and/or C++ for firmware and embedded systems development.
- Experience with microcontrollers, embedded processors, RTOS-based platforms, bare-metal environments, or comparable embedded computing platforms.
- Strong knowledge of real-time software design, interrupt handling, timing analysis, memory constraints, concurrency, and fault handling.
- Experience with device drivers, board-support packages, hardware abstraction layers, bootloaders, or low-level platform software.
- Experience with hardware interfaces and communication protocols such as SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, Ethernet, USB, and RS-485.
- Experience debugging hardware-connected software with JTAG/SWD debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, or equivalent tools.
- Experience with version control, code review, continuous integration, automated testing, and release management.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and technical leadership skills.
- Preferred experience with motion or motor control, fluidics, thermal control, optics, imaging, sensors, precision measurement, or laboratory automation.
- Preferred experience with safety-critical, regulated, high-reliability, medical-device, scientific-instrument, or industrial-control products.
- Preferred experience with ARM-based platforms, FreeRTOS, embedded Linux, Zephyr, QNX, or comparable embedded operating systems.
- Preferred experience with functional safety, risk management, cybersecurity, secure boot, firmware update mechanisms, or threat modeling.
- Preferred experience developing manufacturing test software, diagnostics, calibration routines, or service tools.
- Preferred experience using Python for firmware test automation, hardware bring-up, diagnostics, or data analysis.
- Ability to travel up to 20% as needed.
Benefits
- Standard Monday-Friday work schedule in an office environment.
- Opportunity to work on scientific instruments and laboratory automation systems supporting scientific discovery and health, environmental, and food-safety applications.
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.