Staff Automation Engineer

Automation & Digitalization Engineer

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that positively impacts a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life daily to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, ensuring our food is safe, or helping find cures for cancer.

Discover Impactful Work : We are seeking an expert Automation & Digitalization engineer to join the Life Science's Advanced Engineering team where we operate at the intersection of manufacturing automation, digitalization, and strategy deployment. You will own the design and development of advanced manufacturing technologies and digital tools across a global network of sites to enable scalable solutions supporting Thermo Fisher's mission to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

A Day in the Life

• Lead initiatives to evaluate, design, and implement advanced manufacturing automation and digital systems (e.g., robotics, PLCs, automated liquid handling, machine vision, etc).
• Develop and deploy smart factory solutions, integrating sensor networks, real-time data acquisition, and predictive analytics into production environments.
• Partner with site, divisional and IT teams to define system architectures supporting IoT and cloud-enabled infrastructure.
• Guide site teams on engineering standard methodologies such as requirements gathering, design reviews, testing generation, and operational adoption.
• Evaluate automation and digital use cases by partnering with site operations to find opportunities then engaging internal & external teams for scoping & deployment.
• Perform structured technology assessments taking into consideration VOC, technical requirements, cost, and other factors to drive platform alignment.
• Guide teams, through hands-on leadership, on system integration using data brokers, UNS, SQL databases, and contextualization platforms.
• Review technical documents (requirements, design documents, FAT / SAT, IQ / OQ) and contribute to developing internal standards and playbooks.
• Identify lessons learned and provide technical guidance to shape LSG's long-term automation strategy.

Keys to Success

Education

Experience

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

Data brokers and industrial protocols (e.g., Litmus, OPC UA, MQTT)

This position does not offer relocation benefits.

Benefits :

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

Compensation and Benefits The salary range estimated for this position based in Maryland is $113,500.00$170,200.00. This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and / or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes :

A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount