Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you will discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every day: enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.
We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping take science a step beyond. Our work supports some of the world's toughest challenges, from protecting the environment and ensuring food safety to helping find cures for cancer.
Job Description:
Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Software Engineer III to join a collaborative, global team developing innovative software solutions for advanced scientific instruments.
In this role, you will design, develop, test, and maintain sophisticated software applications used to control microscopes and analytical instruments. Your work will enable breakthrough research across fields such as semiconductors, life sciences, and materials analysis.
You will collaborate closely with software engineers, scientists, hardware engineers, and domain experts to translate complex scientific and technical requirements into reliable, scalable software solutions. Working in an agile environment with international teams, you will contribute to technical innovation, improve software quality, and help deliver products that support discoveries with real-world impact.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, implement, test, and maintain software applications for scientific instruments and related systems.
Develop high-quality software using modern C++, C#, Python, or similar technologies.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including scientists, systems engineers, hardware engineers, and product stakeholders.
Translate complex technical and scientific requirements into robust software designs.
Apply object-oriented design principles, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns.
Participate in agile development processes, including planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and test-driven development practices.
Support hardware and instrument integration activities as needed.
Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve software issues across complex systems.
Work independently while also mentoring, supporting, and collaborating with team members.
Communicate effectively with global teams and stakeholders.
Basic Qualifications:
Advanced degree with 3+ years of software development experience, or bachelor's degree with 5+ years of software development experience in a commercial environment.
Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field preferred.
Strong proficiency in modern C++, C#, or Python.
Experience with object-oriented software design, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
Experience with Git or other version control systems.
Experience with automated testing, test-driven development, and software quality practices.
Experience with CI/CD tools and modern software development workflows.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively in cross-functional, global teams.
Ability to travel occasionally, approximately 5-10%, for collaboration with global teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working in an agile development environment; SAFe experience is a plus.
Experience integrating software with hardware, instruments, devices, or embedded systems.
Experience developing software for scientific, analytical, imaging, semiconductor, or laboratory instrumentation.
Ability to understand and work with complex technical or scientific requirements.
Experience mentoring or supporting other engineers.
Familiarity with regulated, quality-focused, or high-reliability software environments.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of nearly $11 billion, we have approximately 37,000 employees and serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as in environmental and process control industries. We create value for our key stakeholders through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, which offer a unique combination of continuous technology development and the most convenient purchasing options. Our products and services help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, and solve analytical challenges ranging from complex research to routine testing to field applications.
All of our employees share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement. Our ability to grow year after year is driven by our ability to attract, develop and retain world-class people who will thrive in our environment and share in our desire to improve mankind by enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
If you share in our values and if you're looking for an employer who is strongly committed to developing talent and rewarding achievement, come grow with us at Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.