Senior Staff Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

ThermoFisher Scientific; Eindhoven; On-site; EUR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead compute infrastructure for the Software Deployment Platform (SDP). You will own server, workstation, storage, GPU, and networking hardware, guiding hardware lifecycle from introduction to obsolescence and ensuring scalable, reliable infrastructure.

Collaborate with suppliers, Procurement, IT, and SDP engineers to optimize configurations, plan obsolescence, and document technical solutions for service readiness.

Qualifications

• Academic degree in a relevant technical field.
• Strong knowledge of server and workstation hardware, including compute, GPU, memory, storage, and networking technologies.
• Hands-on experience with IT and datacenter hardware, including rack installation, component replacement and upgrades, cabling, networking, power, and infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Experience translating software and system requirements into hardware architectures, specifications, and supported configurations.
• Experience with hardware lifecycle management, supplier collaboration, and technology roadmap planning.
• Understanding of system performance, reliability, capacity, and scalability, with experience troubleshooting hardware and infrastructure issues.

Responsibilities

• Own the server, workstation, storage, networking, GPU, and related hardware configurations on which SDP is deployed.
• Translate platform and product requirements into hardware specifications and manage hardware lifecycle activities, including new introductions, upgrades, replacements, and obsolescence.
• Support NSR activities by defining and validating tailored hardware configurations required to host SDP for specific customer or application needs.
• Analyse system performance, stability, and scalability with SDP engineers and suppliers, and resolve hardware- and infrastructure-related bottlenecks.
• Maintain and improve development, build, and test hardware infrastructure for the SDP scrum team, aligning with IT on networking, hosting, rack space, power, cooling, and related infrastructure needs.
• Collaborate with suppliers and Procurement on technology roadmaps and developments in compute, GPU, storage, and networking technologies, identifying opportunities to improve sourcing, consistency, cost, and platform capabilities.
• Partner with Operations Engineering and Service to ensure customer-facing hardware solutions can be introduced, integrated, maintained, and serviced, including technical documentation and training for Service on new hardware solutions.

Skills

Server hardware

Workstation hardware

Compute infrastructure

GPU

Networking

Storage

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Virtualization platforms

Firmware/BIOS/UEFI

Job description

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead compute infrastructure for the Software Deployment Platform (SDP). You will own server, workstation, storage, GPU, and networking hardware, guiding hardware lifecycle from introduction to obsolescence and ensuring scalable, reliable infrastructure.

Collaborate with suppliers, Procurement, IT, and SDP engineers to optimize configurations, plan obsolescence, and document technical solutions for service readiness.