Software Architect, TEM Applications

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Transmission electron microscopes are advanced lab instruments used in life science, material sciences, and semiconductor industry. Improving the software on these instruments plays a vital role in developing better vaccines, materials, and semiconductors.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific in the Netherlands. https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/netherlands

Global Digital Group

As part of the R&D organization of Thermo Fisher Scientific's MSD division, Digital group is committed to bring groundbreaking software solutions to support our customers' success.

Digital Team is a multi-site group divided over multiple sites in Eindhoven (the Netherlands), Bordeaux (France), Hillsboro (US), Brno (Czech).

Our software offers solutions to our customers in life sciences, material sciences and semiconductors market, by providing dedicated workflows and solutions. Examples are automated tomography, single particle acquisition, and our semiconductors automated metrology/measurements at nanometer scale.

How will you make an impact?

Our Metrios software team in Eindhoven is hiring a Software Architect for the Digital TEM SW group. This position focuses on providing S/TEM solutions for Semiconductor workflows.

https://www.thermofisher.com/nl/en/home/electron-microscopy/products/transmission-electron-microscopes/metrios-tem.html

Seeking a Software Architect who is hardworking, motivated, and has a broad knowledge of full system software development, from the embedded platform to the operator facing applications.

Metrios applications are primarily developed in C#.Net with WPF as UI on Windows platform. Distributed scrum teams in Hillsboro, US and Eindhoven, Netherlands work on this. The Machine Learning part is mostly written in Python. This role offers the opportunity to impact applications used by Semiconductor companies and scientists globally. You will also collaborate with important teams in the workflows we deliver to our customers.

The Software Architect is an authoritative owner and driver of our software architecture. Your assignment will be a mixture of the following activities:

Build and support the software architecture vision: 50% of your time

• Maintain and improve the extendibility, quality and maintainability of our product.
• Share and align architectural vision.
• Agree shared resources and collaborate with other architects.
• Identify and prioritize technical risks and impediments.

Improve the efficiency of the engineering team: 25% of your time

• Stimulate expertise acquisition and knowledge diffusion.
• Evaluate technical skill and knowledge of prospective engineers.
• Collaborate with project manager to strengthen resource and abilities development.

Support the product vision: 25% of your time

• Help product manager and product owner in evaluating the roadmap.
• Identify technical and planning risks and dependencies on the product backlog.
• Stimulate innovation!

We are looking for someone who can lead and empower teams, foster collaboration, communicate effectively with management, and define successful products.

How will you get there?

The ideal candidate for this position enjoys working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural environment to solve complex software team challenges. If you enjoy the development of software solutions on top of high-performance systems, this is an excellent opportunity. The successful candidate will possess the following combination of education and experience:

• Current knowledge and practical experience with C#, WPF, Web / REST API development (including new concepts, standard methodologies)
• Excellent problem-solving abilities: Should be able to describe a few of the hardest problems you have solved and exactly how you solved them
• Experience with AI, Machine Learning including Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, Docker container on Linux platform, Kubernetes, Image processing or related

Personal skills:

• Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum development environment
• Strong analytical view combined with pragmatic attitude (flexibility)
• Curious, and able to quickly learn on the job
• Desire to continuously improve processes and practices