Staff Engineer, Software

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Work Schedule First Shift (Days) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description Job Title: Staff Engineer, TEM Semiconductor    Location/Division Specific Information  Hyderabad, IN - Analytical Instruments Group, Materials & Structural Analysis Division    About the product: The Thermo Scientific™ Metrios™ is an advanced TEM imaging system designed to automate and optimize imaging workflows. With the Metrios™ AX, we introduced the world's first commercially available Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (S/TEM) using machine learning for automated, high-quality data collection. Exclusively designed for the semiconductor industry, the Metrios series removes automation barriers, enabling labs to measure critical dimensions of semiconductor devices during development and manufacturing.   How will you make an impact?    We're seeking a Software Engineer with expertise in machine learning, computer vision, and image processing to join our TEM Semiconductor value stream, driving the development of innovative S/TEM solutions tailored for semiconductor metrology workflows. As a member of a distributed agile Scrum team, you will collaborate closely with teams in the Netherlands and Czech Republic. You'll develop and maintain backend services using C# and Python, leveraging Docker and Kubernetes to deploy and operate scalable, containerized web service applications in a distributed software environment.      What will you do?    You will be part of the TEM organization within Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Materials and Structural Analysis R&D organization, which is committed to bringing game-changing solutions to our customers to help them achieve success.  You will be based in Hyderabad, IN, and report to the Functional Group Lead.   In this role, you'll collaborate with developers, product owners, architects, and other stakeholders, uniting multi-site teams to deliver reliable and secure software solutions. Your responsibilities include:    • Design, develop, test, and maintain robust, secure, and scalable software solutions for advanced S/TEM applications.  • Develop backend services using Python, contributing to cloud-native, microservices-based architectures deployed on Docker and Kubernetes.  • Write and maintain high-quality unit tests, integration tests, and system-level component tests to ensure software reliability and performance.  • Participate in code reviews, promoting software quality, maintainability, and adherence to engineering best practices.  • Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve software defects, performance bottlenecks, and operational issues.  • Collaborate with DevOps engineers to automate deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of applications and services.  • Contribute to software optimization initiatives, improving system performance, scalability, and maintainability.  • Collaborate with application engineers and domain experts to collect, curate, and annotate image datasets for machine learning and computer vision applications.  • Develop, train, evaluate, and integrate machine learning and image-processing models into production software solutions.