Senior Software Engineer Advanced System Control – Transmission Electron Microscopy

Do you have a passion for innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you’ll help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement tackle cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.

Transmission electronic microscopes are the most sophisticated laboratory instruments that are used today. Platform Software is essential into exploiting all the potential of these microscopes, pushing the limits of current physical technologies. These tools and our software applications are used by scientists and engineers in life science, material sciences and semiconductor industry, indirectly affecting our life in many aspects. By contributing into this platform software, you might help developing better vaccines, new lighter and stronger materials, or more efficient semiconductors.

Get more insights on our High-Tech Transmission Electron Microscope workflow domains via these links. These sophisticated tools are being developed, market and manufactured in our cleanrooms in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where this role is also positioned.

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The Automation group is one of the pillars of the Research and Development organization for High-End Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEM). The group is committed to develop groundbreaking technologies, modules and software that enable us to deliver extraordinary TEM microscopes for our demanding markets and customers.

With the ongoing developments in physics and industry the requirements for optical performance of these TEM microscopes are continuously growing. Aligning well with Advanced Technology Development this group is striving to convert the most promising technological concepts into real products for creating and guiding electron beams for imaging with near-perfect optical performance.

Our team members are very proud of their contributions to provide solutions for our customers that enable them to make our world cleaner, healthier and safer.

How you will make an impact?

The Senior Software Engineer Transmission Electron Microscopy will be part of an enthusiastic multi-disciplinary team. You will be responsible for software design and implementation from concepts towards introduction in the factory.

Objective of this team is to improve ease-of-use for our customers and performance of the Electron Microscope (throughput, repeatability, image quality etc.) through system automation. The automation is achieved through sophisticated algorithms.

You will work closely together with other subject areas such as system engineering, customer service and operations.

The team is also responsible for maintenance, continuous improvements and collaboration with other software development teams. The developments are done in multi-disciplinary teams across multiple sites in Europe.

Software development takes place in an agile environment where the safe framework is applied. You will contribute to sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and sprint planning. Together with the product owner, the scrum master and the development team members you are involved in refining the backlog. You will have a lot of freedom in this role and work in a highly innovative setting. The cool part is that you can test your developed Software in real-time on our products.

How will you get there?

• Proven experience to designing software with a very high degree of reliability in a production environment.
• Proven experience to develop applications and/or algorithms in Python. In depth knowledge of Python 3.
• Experience bringing software from prototype to production.
• Knowledge of software integration and software re-use.
• Having an open mind set to proactively help improving our processes, methods, and techniques.
• Experience with Image processing

The following criteria will give you an advantage

• Experience with software development for high-tech system
• Experience with software development for calibration and alignment algorithms.
• Experience with creating customer value with “Software only” features for a high-tech system.
• In depth knowledge of C++, including modern standards C++11, 14, and 17.
• Knowledge on how to gain advantage from Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
• Experience with Microservices and Docker.

Personal skills

• Great teammate with good natural interpersonal communications skills are required due to the high degree of interaction and collaboration.
• Strong analytical view in combined with a pragmatic attitude (flexibility).
• Value orientation, getting to the essence, setting and acting according to priorities.
• Result orientation, showing initiative and self-organizing, good time and priority management skills.
• Thinking ahead and making architectures which are fit for future & maintainable.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!