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Senior Staff FPGA and Embedded Software Engineer

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Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Laboratory Setting, Office, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

Work Schedule: Standard (Monday-Friday); full time, onsite

Environmental Conditions: Office and laboratory environment

Location/Division: Marsiling, Singapore / Flow Cytometry R&D

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you will discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every day by enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

How will you make an impact?

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Staff FPGA and Embedded Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for FPGA firmware and embedded software across flow cytometry instruments. You will set architectural direction for reliable, real-time acquisition and control, while sustaining and modernizing legacy designs. You will turn instrument needs into robust, maintainable systems that acquire digitized photodetector signals, process cytometry events, control hardware, and deliver data to instrument software.

You will lead complex technical work across systems, optics, electrical engineering, instrument software, manufacturing, service, quality, and external design partners. You will guide architecture and design decisions across subsystem boundaries, resolve difficult hardware and software issues, and help other engineers grow their FPGA and embedded development skills. The successful candidate brings deep implementation and verification expertise, sound hardware/software interface judgment, and the schematic literacy to guide requirements, reviews, bring-up, and troubleshooting.

What will you do?

  • Set technical direction for FPGA and embedded software architecture across instrument programs, balancing performance, reliability, maintainability, schedule, and product lifecycle needs.
  • Lead the development and sustaining of production FPGA codebases written in Verilog/SystemVerilog, including hands-on work on the most complex or critical designs.
  • Design and guide high-throughput acquisition pipelines from ADC interfaces through digital filtering, trigger logic, buffering, and high-speed host interfaces.
  • Lead integration of FPGA firmware with embedded processors and operating environments such as embedded Linux, an RTOS, or bare-metal systems, including low-level interfaces, drivers, and board-support components.
  • Guide implementation and troubleshooting of embedded protocols and interfaces, including I2C, SPI, UART, and Ethernet.
  • Define verification approaches, reusable test strategies, and automated testbenches; raise consistency in design review, test coverage, documentation, and release practices.
  • Translate instrument and subsystem needs into FPGA and embedded software requirements, data formats, and board-interface specifications; lead technical reviews of schematics and layouts with internal and external board designers.
  • Lead board bring-up and subsystem validation using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG tools, and software diagnostics. Drive resolution of issues that cross FPGA, processor, board, operating system, application software, and instrument boundaries.
  • Lead complex root-cause investigations and corrective actions with manufacturing, service, and quality teams, including component obsolescence and sustaining releases.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical problem-solving, and knowledge sharing; help establish engineering practices that improve the reliability and maintainability of FPGA and embedded systems.
  • Own technical planning for complex work, including estimates, dependencies, risks, design tradeoffs, and progress communication, while applying applicable product, quality, and research-use-only requirements.

How will you get here?

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with 12+ years of relevant experience; or a master's degree with 10+ years of relevant experience.
  • Extensive production FPGA firmware experience using Verilog/SystemVerilog across the full lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through implementation, verification, release, and sustaining.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead architecture and technical decisions for complex FPGA and embedded systems, including work across multiple disciplines or product subsystems.
  • Working knowledge of embedded operating-system concepts and development in embedded Linux, an RTOS, or bare-metal environments.
  • Extensive experience implementing and debugging hardware/software interfaces and protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, and Ethernet.
  • Experience with ADC interfaces, high-throughput digital acquisition, real-time DSP, pulse or event processing, buffering, and reliable transfer of acquired data.
  • Strong knowledge of digital logic design, clock-domain crossing, constraint development, functional and timing simulation, static timing analysis, and timing closure.
  • Ability to understand complex legacy designs and codebases and to lead controlled code changes, reviews, automated testing, documentation, and firmware or software releases using modern version-control practices.
  • Ability to read electrical schematics, define board-interface requirements, and lead board bring-up and troubleshooting.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership through mentoring, design reviews, cross-functional problem-solving, or establishing engineering practices.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience leading development and sustaining of AMD/Xilinx FPGA designs using Vivado.
  • Experience with Intel/Altera FPGA devices and the Quartus development environment.
  • Experience reading, maintaining, or developing FPGA designs written in VHDL.
  • Experience with System-on-Chip (SoC) or System-on-Module (SoM) architectures combining embedded processors with FPGA fabric.
  • Experience with flow cytometry, photodetector acquisition, optical instrumentation, or comparable scientific-instrument data paths.
  • Experience with high-speed host interfaces such as PCIe, USB, or comparable data-transfer architectures.
  • Experience with RUO life-science instrumentation and its product development and lifecycle needs.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable local laws, rules, or regulations.

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