Engineer III, Software

Actively Reviewing the Applications

Thermo Fisher Scientific

India, Telangana, Hyderabad Full-Time On-site

Posted 7 hours ago • Apply by June 6, 2026

Job Description

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

About Company:

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $30 billion and approximately 70,000 employees globally. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market and increase laboratory productivity. Through our premier brands – Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services – we offer an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive services.

About Team:

Providing best in class product development services to Thermo Fisher Scientific Global Business Units, is one of the core functions of the India Engineering Center (IEC). This Global Research and Development Center, established in 2009, is in My Home Twitza, Hyderabad, with over 150 employees. We are a team committed to developing innovative and groundbreaking technologically advanced products ranging from laboratory equipment, analytical instruments, remote monitoring solutions.

Role Purpose Summary:

You will join a team of firmware developers to develop firmware for modules in Python on Embedded micro-processor board. The complexity of application is medium-to-high where firmware development is from scratch that would run on a Linux OS. Understand requirements and implement the same in python firmware.

Embedded Linux on motherboard primarily using Python programming language to control, manage and drive sophisticated PID controlled modules interfacing with instrument software and their workflows. Develop firmware modules, control and drive robotic interfaces to the instruments. Responsible for design, development, implementation and unit testing of controller’s firmware. The modules controlled on MODBUS with various devices like Temperature controllers and pH controllers, and other peripherals.

Roles & Responsibilities

Responsible for Design, Implementation & Development, and Unit testing of Embedded firmware related to interfacing multiple modules with controller.
Work with global software team members to deliver complete and high-quality instrument control software by schedule and specification.
Capture requirements & derive technical specifications to be implemented.
Provide near to accurate time estimates on planning of these requirements and deliveries.
Clearly articulates unit test cases with pass acceptance criteria. Performs unit testing and other code quality check tools, documents the test results, peer reviews the data & analyses failures independently with root cause and counter measures to fix the issues.
Leverages peer review & communicates openly to find options to simplify tasks. Adopt platform strategy and practice standard design rules/patterns
Adhere to coding standards and team norms to follow SCRUM.
Quick and constant learner to become a domain and technical expert.

Candidate Educational & Professional Experience Requirement:

Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with Electronics / Computer Science/ Computer Applications / Biomedical with around 10 years of experience in relevant firmware industry.

Competency Requirements:

Must Have

Strong ability to independently write and debug complex Python – Object Oriented programming and C++ programming
Strong experience on PID controller’s implementation in firmware
Firmware development for controller multiple sensors, controllers via MODBUS
Very strong with Network programming using TCP/IP, MODUBUS, USB interfaces, Serial interfaces, CAN Interfaces, I2C, SPI, CAN, RS-232, SMBUS, OPC UA
Hands on experience on Rasberry-Pi boards or similar Embedded motherboards/SBC
Running Firmware applications on a Linux Operating System

Good to Have

Experience with Uboot, Buildroot or Yocto etc. is a plus
Strong in Linux System programming
Experience with cross compilers and PyCharm related libraries
Very good with data structures, design patterns, object-oriented design and algorithms used in programming.
Experience with Lifecycle & Backlog Management tools like JIRA, TFS, DOORs
Hands-on experience in scripting languages like Python, Bash, Shell scripting, etc.
Experience using Oscilloscope & Digital Multimeter for debugging, reading schematics
Aware of different micro-controllers and micro-processors & clearly understands critical architecture features
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to review and evaluate code and writings of others.