Senior Systems Engineer: Flow Cytometry Integration & Test

LIFE TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Senior Engineer, Systems Design to join our Flow Cytometry engineering team. This role focuses on system-level integration and hands-on testing to ensure subsystems operate as an integrated product.

You will lead integration activities, run feasibility studies, perform troubleshooting, and collaborate with hardware, software, V&V, and quality teams to deliver robust, compliant instruments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in bioengineering, biomedical, mechanical, electrical or related field.
• Typically 5+ years in systems engineering, design engineering, integration engineering or test engineering.
• Hands-on test experience with complex instruments, electromechanical systems or multidisciplinary products.
• Systems integration experience preferred; strong systems thinking and learning agility required.
• Strong test engineering fundamentals: test strategy, experimental design, data analysis, acceptance criteria, documentation.
• Analytical skills including root-cause analysis and engineering risk assessment.
• Knowledge of systems engineering practices: interfaces, traceability, design controls, verification concepts.
• Ability to communicate findings clearly and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive execution of systems integration activities for Flow Cytometry system, coordinating interfaces across microfluidics, acoustics, optics, electronics, firmware/software.
• Plan and perform hands-on engineering testing for feasibility studies, concept evaluation, integration checkout, troubleshooting and sustaining investigations.
• Execute controlled system configurations and integrated workflows; identify cross-subsystem issues.
• Lead structured integration issue triage and root-cause investigations with cross-functional teams.
• Analyze experimental/test data using statistical methods and translate results into technical conclusions.
• Assess integration coverage and support development of test methods and traceability.
• Perform risk and integration-impact assessments for sustaining changes and field issues.
• Support feasibility studies and proof-of-concept activities for new concepts and performance parameters.
• Maintain integration configuration, test results and readiness evidence; handoff to formal V&V.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering, hardware/software embedded test, V&V, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing and Service teams.

Skills

Systems engineering

Test engineering

Integration engineering

Troubleshooting

Data analysis

Root-cause analysis

V&V

Requirements traceability

Education

Bioengineering / Biomedical / Mechanical / Electrical Engineering

5+ years experience in systems/integration/test engineering

Hands-on testing with complex instruments

Tools

FMEA

Statistical methods

Design controls

Verification concepts

Acceptance criteria

Job description

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Senior Engineer, Systems Design to join our Flow Cytometry engineering team. This role focuses on system-level integration and hands-on testing to ensure subsystems operate as an integrated product.

You will lead integration activities, run feasibility studies, perform troubleshooting, and collaborate with hardware, software, V&V, and quality teams to deliver robust, compliant instruments.