Senior Software Engineer - Thermo Fisher Scientific B.V.
Senior Software Engineer - Thermo Fisher Scientific B.V.
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Senior Software Engineer who will work in high complex electron microscope!
The Material Science Acquisition Software team at Thermo Fisher Scientific's Eindhoven branch focuses on developing innovative software solutions tailored for platforms spanning from embedded Linux systems to Windows PCs.
This team seeks to enhance its capabilities by adding a Senior Software Engineer. The ideal candidate will collaborate with the software team and architects to shape and refine the overarching technological and architectural vision of their solutions. Responsibilities include validating assumptions, evaluating alternatives, defining functional and non-functional requirements, and providing technical leadership for architectural enablers. Technologies and tools employed include industry standards like C++20, CMake, Conan, Jenkins, and gRPC.
In line with Agile principles, the team emphasizes empowering software teams to make local decisions and encourages active participation in continuous improvement efforts for the software, processes, and the team itself.
When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale!
Join 130,000 colleagues who bring their Mission to life every single day to enable their customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
You’ll find the resources there to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges. This includes protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and helping find cures for cancer.
- This position will begin with a one-year contract through YER. (An initial permanent contract may also be possible.) After this year, you will transition to a contract with Thermo Fisher Scientific.
- During this first year YER will offer an yearly salary between: €60.000 and €80.000 (all-in)
- 25-40 holidays per year
- Travel expense reimbursement
- Fully paid pension
- Free Dutch courses
- Open and transparent communication with your personal consultant
- Personal career coaching from our occupational psychologists
- Broad technical and softs skills training opportunities
- A Service Desk ready to answer all your practical questions
Minimal Education/experience:
- MSc or BSc degree in Software Engineering
- 5+ years as software engineer in high-tech software development
The ideal candidate should have the following technical background:
- A proficient programming level in C++ including modern standards like C++17 or newer.
- Knowledge and experience with Bash and Linux (Docket, CONAN, Artifactory, Debian, WIX)
- Experience with cross-compilation Windows/Linux
- Experience with Jenkins (pipeline) and GIT (version control)
- Experience with CMAKE, gRPC, python and C# is desirable
- Affinity with software development close to hardware requirements
- Experience or exposure with SW for embedded systems (FPGA, CLHS, GenICam) is a plus
- Knowledge of and/or exposure to Test Driven Development (TDD) (gtest/boost-test).
- Understanding of Window COM (Component Object Model is a nice to have
- Experience with Scrum and ideally with SAFe
We are looking for a person who:
- Has strong analytical and problem-solving skills and shows understanding of software development principles and processes.
- Has experience with performance critical SW development.
- Has the ability to learn the domain quick!
- Is able to work independently when provided a set of requirements.
- Is not afraid to speak up, ask questions, and proactively find solutions.
- Is an outstanding teammate who knows how to drive engagement
The overall responsibilities of the role are:
- Shared responsibility for the quality of the produced software together with the agile team (including test code).
- Designs, codes, documents, tests (automated), maintains and deploys software.
- Applies Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
- Using technical solutions that conform to requirements with a strong focus on end-users, performance, safety, security, maintainability.
- Actively participates in sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and backlog refinement.
The main activities/tasks of the role are:
- Extend and maintain the image acquisition and processing code base (Acquisition Server)
- Design and implement new features which may not only impact Acquisition Server but also components outside of it.
- Improve the existing design with the introduction of new use cases (if and when required).
- Set up detector communication and data retrieval.
- Develop server and client implementations using IPC or RPC technologies (like shared memory, gRPC …)
- Extend and maintain image processing pipeline functionality (corrections/calibrations)
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Analysis
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Initial interview
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Follow-up interview(s)
Depending on the process, the consultant will invite you to the next round(s) of interviews and possibly an assessment center.
Offer
If you are selected for the position, you will receive an attractive job offer. We will be happy to advise you on realistic terms of employment.
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