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.), WarehouseJob Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that positively impacts a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life daily to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, ensuring our food is safe, or helping find cures for cancer.
Discover Impactful Work:
We are seeking an expert Automation & Digitalization engineer to join the Life Science’s Advanced Engineering team where we operate at the intersection of manufacturing automation, digitalization, and strategy deployment. You will own the design and development of advanced manufacturing technologies and digital tools across a global network of sites to enable scalable solutions supporting Thermo Fisher’s mission to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.
Location/Division Specific InformationPreference for candidates in proximity to Thermo Fisher facilities in the following cities Frederick/MD, Austin/TX, Carlsbad/CA, Pleasanton/CA, Eugene/OR, Rockford/IL, Vilnius/Lithuania and Singapore. Remote candidates will also be considered.
A day in the Life:- Lead initiatives to evaluate, design, and implement advanced manufacturing automation and digital systems (e.g., robotics, PLCs, automated liquid handling, machine vision, etc).
- Develop and deploy smart factory solutions, integrating sensor networks, real-time data acquisition, and predictive analytics into production environments.
- Partner with site, divisional and IT teams to define system architectures supporting IoT and cloud-enabled infrastructure.
- Guide site teams on engineering standard methodologies such as requirements gathering, design reviews, testing generation, and operational adoption.
- Evaluate automation and digital use cases by partnering with site operations to find opportunities then engaging internal & external teams for scoping & deployment.
- Perform structured technology assessments taking into consideration VOC, technical requirements, cost, and other factors to drive platform alignment.
- Guide teams, through hands-on leadership, on system integration using data brokers, UNS, SQL databases, and contextualization platforms.
- Review technical documents (requirements, design documents, FAT/SAT, IQ/OQ) and contribute to developing internal standards and playbooks.
- identify lessons learned and provide technical guidance to shape LSG’s long-term automation strategy.
- Bachelor’s in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Systems, or Computer Engineering required.
Experience
- 7+ years in automation and digital engineering roles, with preference to at least 2+ years in a multi-site supporting capacity, ideally in life sciences, biotech, or medical devices required.
- Extensive knowledge of industrial control systems (e.g. Rockwell) and lab automation systems (e.g. Tecan)
- Strong understanding of automation architectures including edge/cloud integration
- Experience in designing or deploying robotic technology
- Hands-on experience with:
- Data brokers and industrial protocols (e.g., Litmus, OPC UA, MQTT)
- SQL-based systems and structured data models
- Manufacturing data contextualization and modeling
- Scripting or query languages (e.g., Python, SQL, JSON)
This position does not offer relocation benefits.
Benefits:
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in Maryland is $113,500.00–$170,200.00.This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards
