When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.

Location/Division Specific Information

This job is based in Guilford CT

What will you do?

• Software Engineer to be a part a cross-functional engineering team designing instrumentation to aid in cutting-edge Next Generation Sequencing. Will work closely with both the hardware engineering team developing the instrument and the biologists defining the problems the instrument and software are intended to solve.

• Assist in the development of new applications for our Next Generation Sequencing Instrument suite.

• Perform all phases of software development including design, implementation, testing, integration, maintenance of software.

• Development and support of GUI, analysis, communications, and instrument control software

• Interact with verification and validation teams to create test requirements based on system software requirements and design

How will you get here?

​Education

• BS in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science required.

​Experience

• 2 years of experience working in a software related field

• Experience using JIRA, source code management

• Experience with Test Driven Development in an Agile environment

• Experience with Linux

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Knowledge of C/C++, Java, Python

• A basic understanding of digital hardware used in a real-time embedded systems that includes FPGA’s, DSP’s and microcontroller devices

• Knowledge of source code management

• Ability to multi-task, prioritize responsibilities, and meet deadlines

• Desire and ability to work in an established R&D group, as well as interface effectively with manufacturing and customer support

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $25 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 75,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.