
Staff Engineer, Software UX at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Title: Staff Engineer, Software UX
- Remote USA
The Genetic Sciences Division at Thermo Fisher Scientific is looking for a passionate software usability and interface design engineer to join our UX team. You will work on customer facing cloud and on-premise software products for our market leading real-time PCR, capillary electrophoresis, open array, forensic instrument platforms and analysis solutions. Your work will have profound impact over world health, food supply and agriculture, environmental safety, human identification, and more.
In this role you will be responsible for aligning and building UI/UX best practices into our existing software development methodology for a large portfolio of on-market and new clinical software products.
What will you do?
- Be part of a team delivering a unified user experience across our software product portfolio
- Serve as UX team representative on a diverse range of programs, contributing to strategy, visioning and requirements definition
- Iteratively develop visual designs by building prototypes in Sketch or similar design tools
- Expand existing design system guidelines to incorporate innovative new ideas that delight customers
- Evangelize and enforce style guidelines throughout the software development lifecycle
- Participate in UX research and usability testing activities
How will you get here?
Education/ Experience:
- Bachelor of Science in Human Factors or related Degree, or High School Diploma/GED with 10+ years’ experience.
- 8+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6+ years and an advanced degree or equivalent work experience.
- Experience with design systems
- Familiarity with web front-end technologies such as Django, Angular, Bootstrap and HTML/CSS
- Familiarity with business intelligence or analytics tools is a plus
- Experience designing data visualizations is a plus
- Experience with the Life Sciences industry is highly desirable
- Experience working in laboratory environment is a plus

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