Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

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.

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.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $40 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 sophisticated analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or growing efficiency in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our distributed team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an outstanding 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.

The Product

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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Impression of SW engineering

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Team

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.

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 the product owner, the scrum master and the development team members 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 the team can test their developed Software in real-time on our products.

The Position

The Product Owner has a self-propelling role, working as a member of a software development team within the R&D organization, to build a product vision and roadmap that increases value for our customers.

The team works in an agile environment where the SAFe and Scrum frameworks are applied. Together with your team members, you are responsible for the software that control the optical component of our Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) products, enabling pioneering technics to explore material up to the atomic level.

Key responsibilities include

• Translate the company’s customer value propositions into meaningful, industry-leading software (sub)products, that delight our customers.
• Drive the innovative development of new products through the design, verification, and validation stages.
• Collect feedback about specific needs by communicating with collaborators on a regular basis and using this information to improve the products.
• Make the product backlog visible and clear.
• Handle incoming bug reports and change requests for the product. Handle customer concerns and blocking issues.
• Drive customer satisfaction by optimizing product performance, improving reliability and stability, continuously balancing the introduction of new features with the implementation of functional and non-functional improvements.
• Support product development budgeting, process improvement and quality assurance on a central component of our product.
• Agree with resource managers on efficient staffing of the development team.

Requirements

The ideal candidate for this position enjoys collaboration in a multi-disciplinary technical environment to address sophisticated problems. If you enjoy the development of high-performance integrated systems, this is an excellent opportunity.

• Typically requires at least 3+ years in a software product owner role.
• Typically requires MSc, PDEng or PhD in Physics, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• 5+ years of applicable experience in a multidisciplinary high-tech development environment.
• Ability to handle diverse objectives and problems where analysis of situation or data requires an evaluation of identifiable factors.
• Team spirit and excellent interpersonal communicational skills.
• Strong analytical view combined with pragmatic mentality.
• You dare to take initiative, you are curious and fast learning.

We offer

Opportunity to become a part of successful international company specialized in High-Tech industry.

Possibility to grow in personal skills and professional language.

We provide trainings and support your development

Our team is working in a modern work environment, and we offer flexibility in terms of working hours.

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Benefits

• Flexible working hours to better balance your personal life, and 40 (27+13) days of vacation per year
• Annual bonus, 13th month, and a highly competitive pension scheme.
• Further benefits designed to support your physical, financial and personal wellbeing.
• Notebook of high quality, company phone and two monitors are our standard, further office equipment based on personal preferences.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.