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    Staff Scientist, R&D - San Jose, United States - Thermo Fisher Scientific

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    Full time
    Description

    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 complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them.

    The Staff Scientist role is in the Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry business unit, part of the Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Division, and located in San Jose, CA. At this site, we offer customers a complete range of high-end analytical instruments and software services that support customers within proteomics, clinical research, forensic toxicology, pharmaceutical, biotech, food safety, and environmental market segments.

    How will you make an impact

    We build market-leading Mass Spectrometry solutions to help our customers advance science. Our products are designed with a customer oriented mind set in order to shape the lab of the future by accelerating innovation, developing pioneering technologies, and delivering end to end solutions.

    This role will contribute to the design and development of technologies critical to supporting Thermo Fisher Scientific's position as the leader in mass spectrometry.

    What will you do

    As part of the Tribrid Mass Spectrometer Research and Development team, conduct innovative research and development in the field of mass spectrometry to develop novel technologies to be used with our Quadrupole, Ion Trap and Orbitrap mass analyzers.

    Investigate and explore new ideas and concepts by defining experiments, building, debugging and characterizing prototype instruments in order to verify proof of principle.

    Test and verify new products and product improvements.

    Provide guidance and leadership to mechanical, electrical and software engineers in order to design prototypes and new products.

    Participate in new products introductions as subject matter expert of cross-functional teams composed of product management, marketing, product support and operations personnel.

    Maintain substantial knowledge of innovative principles and theories, contributing to scientific literature and conferences.

    How will you get here

    Education/ Experience

    Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience in a product development lab designing and developing analytical instrumentation; or 6 years of experience with a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or equivalent experience.

    Practical knowledge of high vacuum systems, ion optics, quadrupole, ion trap and Orbitrap analyzers.

    Solid programming skills (Python, Lua, C#, C++...).

    Strong communication and presentation skills.

    Capable of working with multi-disciplinary teams.

    Ability to travel internationally (10%).

    Preferred Skills

  • Minimum three (3) years of experience working in the field of mass spectrometry, preferably in an R&D capacity within an academic or industry setting, designing and developing analytical instrumentation.
  • Ability to troubleshoot electronic circuits and instrumentation.
  • Experience in the analysis of mass spectrometry data.
  • Experience with real time instrument control.
  • Experience with RF ion trap devices.
  • Working knowledge of ion trajectory simulation and/or fluid dynamics software (SIMION, Comsol Multiphysics, ANSYS).
  • Our global team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled 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.



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