Senior Software Engineer (Tech lead)

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COMPANY: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

LOCATION: 2130 Woodward St Austin TX 78744

TITLE: Senior Software Engineer (Tech lead)

HOURS: Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

DUTIES: Lead the design and implementation of AI application platform solutions including system architecture POCs and solution documentation using advanced technologies such as Agents Function Calling MCP RAG and large language models (LLMs).
Design and deliver AI tools and AI enabled web applications using React Python TypeScript and similar technologies ensuring performance scalability and maintainability.
Build deploy and maintain web applications & Microservices (Python & Java) for both on-premises and AWS Cloud environments.
Mentor junior and senior engineers conduct code reviews and guide technical decisions to ensure high-quality software delivery.
Collaborate with cross-functional product development teamsscientists engineers and Product Development Managers (PDMs)to gather requirements and craft interactive scientific and AI-driven software solutions.
Work closely with internal platform teams including the Innovation team and Asia-Pacific teams (e.g. Korea China) as well as the BLR (Bangalore) team to coordinate cross-functional initiatives and drive AI integration strategies with flexibility in working hours to support effective communication and collaboration across global and regional teams.
Help non-AI teams embed intelligent capabilitiessuch as agents and chatbotsinto their platforms.
Maintain support and enhance existing software applications ensuring they evolve with user needs and technical best practices.
Build and maintain automated test frameworks and tools ensuring test coverage and reliability through standard QA practices.
Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines and continuous deployment technologies for rapid reliable delivery supporting both development and production environments.
Manage DevOps activities including Azure and AWS infrastructure Kubernetes orchestration Docker containerization and Ingress configuration.
Ensure application-level security cost efficiency and observability through metrics and logging systems.
Attend and actively participate in all Agile Scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups PI Planning Sprint Planning Grooming Retrospectives).
Support production release lifecycles including release planning regression testing go-live support and post-release aftercare.
Create and maintain comprehensive code and system documentation to support current and future development.
Can work hybrid (In-Office/Remote).
Travel: Up to 10% domestic and international travel required.

REQUIREMENTS: MINIMUM Education Requirement: Masters degree or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related field of study. MINIMUM Experience Requirement: 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer or related occupation. Alternative Education and Experience Requirement: Bachelors degree or foreign degree equivalent in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related field of study plus 7 years of experience as a Software Engineer or related occupation as an equivalent alternative. Required knowledge or experience with: Python Java TypeScript Linux Shell. AI Platform Architecture Large Language Models (LLMs) GPT Claude Gemini DALLE Agents Function Calling Model Context Protocol (MCP) RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Embedding Services LangChain AutoGen SpringAI OpenAI Assistant OpenAI Agent Code Interpreter. OIDC JWT OAuth2 JSON Swagger. Angular React HTML5 CSS JavaScript jQuery. SpringBoot Spring JDBC MicroServices Maven Tomcat. Kubernetes Docker GitHub Actions CI/CD Ingress Nginx AWS (EKS S3 SNS SQS RDS Route53 Secret Manager Cost Center) Azure (AI Hub AI studio Authentication Cognitive AI Search) Load Balance API Gateway Helm Chart. System Design Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Test-Driven Development (TDD) Reactive Programming (WebFlux). HTTP Streaming WebSocket Cookie Session. QA Automation Unit Test. Grafana Prometheus Metrics Loki JMeter LangFuse. PostgreSQL Redis Vector DB Graph DB Databricks. VS Code IntelliJ GitHub Copilot Confluence/Jira Miro Diagrams Figma.