Staff FPGA & Embedded Systems Engineer (Real-Time)

LIFE TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific seeks a hands-on Staff FPGA and Embedded Software Engineer to own FPGA firmware and embedded software for flow cytometry instruments. You will sustain legacy code, develop real-time data acquisition, and deliver data to instrument software.

The role requires collaborating with systems, optics, electrical engineers, and third-party board designers, combining Verilog/SystemVerilog mastery with hardware/software interface skills and schematic literacy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Production FPGA firmware experience using Verilog/SystemVerilog across full lifecycle (requirements to sustaining).
• Experience with embedded Linux, RTOS, or bare-metal environments.
• Experience with common hardware/software interfaces and protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, Ethernet).
• Experience with ADC interfaces, high-throughput digital acquisition, DSP, and data transfer.

Responsibilities

• Sustain, debug, document, and extend FPGA codebases written in Verilog/SystemVerilog.
• Design high-throughput FPGA data acquisition pipelines from ADC to host interfaces.
• Integrate FPGA firmware with embedded processors and Linux/RTOS/bare-metal environments.
• Implement and troubleshoot I2C, SPI, UART, Ethernet interfaces.
• Develop verification strategies and automated testbenches for firmware/software.
• Review schematics/layouts and define board-interface requirements with designers.
• Support board bring-up, diagnostics, and subsystem validation.

Skills

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Embedded Linux

RTOS

I2C

SPI

UART

Ethernet

High-throughput data acquisition

DSP

Schematic reading

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering (optional)

Tools

Vivado

Quartus

VHDL

Job description

Thermo Fisher Scientific seeks a hands-on Staff FPGA and Embedded Software Engineer to own FPGA firmware and embedded software for flow cytometry instruments. You will sustain legacy code, develop real-time data acquisition, and deliver data to instrument software.

The role requires collaborating with systems, optics, electrical engineers, and third-party board designers, combining Verilog/SystemVerilog mastery with hardware/software interface skills and schematic literacy.