Staff Engineer, Systems Design CEHID Platforms

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Job Description

How Youll Make an Impact

As a Staff Systems Engineer supporting the CE and HID platforms you will serve as the technical systems owner and subject matter expert for two on-market genetic analysis platforms manufactured at our Singapore site. While this role sits within R&D its primary focus is sustaining engineering ensuring robust system performance manufacturability and product quality throughout the lifecycle of these platforms.

You will work at the intersection of R&D Manufacturing Service Quality and Product Management coordinating technical efforts across global teams to resolve manufacturing issues investigate field quality events identify VAVE opportunities and develop system-level solutions that protect customer experience and business continuity. This is a hands-on role requiring deep system understanding strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to translate complex issues into practical scalable engineering solutions.

What Youll Do

Platform Ownership & Systems Expertise

• Develop and maintain deep system-level expertise for CE and HID platforms spanning hardware software consumables assays and workflows.
• Serve as the primary R&D technical point of contact for sustaining manufacturing and on-market quality issues related to these platforms.
• Own system-level understanding of performance margins failure modes and integration risks across subsystems.

Sustaining Engineering & Problem Solving

• Lead and coordinate sustaining engineering efforts for both platforms including issue triage root-cause analysis and corrective action development.
• Partner directly with Singapore-based Manufacturing and Tech Ops teams to resolve production issues yield challenges and field escalations.
• Support deviation assessments risk evaluations and implementation of design or process improvements.
• Drive timely containment and long-term solutions for on-market quality issues.
• Lead system-level root cause investigations for manufacturing non-conformances field quality issues and reliability concerns.

Manufacturing & Site Support

• Partner closely with Singapore-based Manufacturing Tech Ops and Quality teams to support production yield improvement and issue resolution on the factory floor.
• Provide on-site technical support for manufacturing issues as they arise including hands-on system evaluation and integration testing.
• Support design transfer manufacturing readiness and long-term manufacturability of the platforms.

System Analysis & Problem Solving

• Apply systems engineering tools and methodologies (e.g. RCA FMEA DOE fault tree analysis) to complex cross-disciplinary problems.
• Perform system-level verification testing to validate fixes and ensure performance reliability and manufacturability.
• Evaluate design changes and manufacturing process updates for system-level impact and regulatory implications.
• Identify opportunities to improve platform robustness manufacturing efficiency and field reliability.
• Clearly document analyses decisions and outcomes through technical reports presentations and reviews.

Cross-Site & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Coordinate technical knowledge transfer and ongoing collaboration with subject matter experts located in the SF Bay Area and other global R&D sites.
• Work closely with CE and HID business unit Quality and Product Management teams to align technical solutions with business and regulatory needs.
• Pull in additional R&D technical resources (hardware software assay reliability service engineering) as needed to resolve complex system issues.

Systems Engineering Practices

• Apply systems engineering principles to sustaining activities including requirements understanding and management interface management risk analysis and verification.
• Develop system-level test strategies and verification plans to validate fixes and ensure no unintended impacts to performance reliability or compliance.
• Document technical analyses design rationales and solutions clearly for cross-functional and regulatory audiences.

How Youll Get Here

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Engineering (Mechanical Electrical Systems or Software) or Applied Physics with 10 years of relevant industry experience; or
• Masters/Ph.D. with 57 years of experience developing complex life science instrumentation or diagnostic systems.

Technical Expertise

• Proven experience as a systems-level engineer supporting complex instruments through manufacturing and post-launch lifecycle phases.
• Strong background in system integration verification and troubleshooting across hardware software optics fluidics and consumables.
• Demonstrated use of systems engineering tools and methodologies such as requirements management FMEA DOE RCA and reliability analysis.
• Experience working in regulated environments (ISO 13485 FDA QSR CE-IVD) strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with laboratory instrumentation genetic analysis platforms or forensic / sequencing systems is a plus.

Interpersonal & Leadership Attributes

• Self-directed engineer who thrives in ambiguous problem spaces and takes ownership of complex technical issues.
• Strong communicator capable of bridging R&D Manufacturing Service Quality and Product Management teams across geographies.
• Comfortable influencing without authority through technical credibility and systems-level thinking.
• Able to balance analytical depth with practical execution-focused decision making.

Why Join Us

Youll play a critical role in sustaining and improving platforms that deliver real-world impact in human identification and genetic analysis. At Thermo Fisher Scientific youll work alongside global experts gain end-to-end platform ownership and see your technical decisions directly influence manufacturing success and customer outcomes.