Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating their material research or increasing efficiency of their production of semiconductor devices, we are here to support them.

The Position

The Application engineer works at the intersection of the development, sales support and the scientific community. This person continually collaborates with Technology, Systems and Software groups to ensure that system requirements are well understood, developed, coordinated and thoroughly tested.

• Working in compliance with legislation and IMS
• Demonstrates good independent judgment and thinking to develop creative ways or in selecting known methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Facilitates and may lead multi-functional improvement and other projects from inception to completion.
• The ability to build and maintain the right working climate.
• Acts as an advisor to peers and project resources to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems.
• Ensures that activities are carried out according to the principle of "Customer facing in all that we do"
• Networks with internal and external personnel in own area of expertise, interacts with supervisors, group leaders, customers and peers. Some interactions may involve Sr. management. Make sure to work safety, biological safety, fire safety, hygiene of work and other regulatory standards. Clean and maintain work area and consigned tools
• Interactions normally involves matters and coordination between functional areas, other departments, or customers and the company.
• Other duties as assigned

• Translate customer needs into workable solutions and technical specification
• Perform system (SW, applications, instrument) validation and evaluation, provide and own test plans and consolidated test reports
• Maintain cross-team communication among various Thermo Fisher sites related to development and deployment of the new products
• Prepare and perform demos, customer jobs, customer trainings and internal trainings
• Handle customer samples, data and related information
• Develop Best Practice Documents (BPDs) and Application notes for reproducible distribution of application implementation and training of customers by applications specialists
• Feed R&D team and Product portfolio group with information and customer feedback
• Recommend and advise on technical direction for potential applications or use of products consistent with customer requirements and feasibility.
• Maintain and nurture pool of electron microscopy, focused ion beam and microanalysis expertise (technology, methodology) for Semiconductor markets
• Work on collaboration projects with external partners
• Deliver innovative, specific marketing and sales collateral to the Product Marketing group for incorporation into marketing, sales training and sales material.
• Mentor junior colleagues with their technical and professional development.

• PhD or MSc in Material Science, Physics, Engineering
• Ability to work independently as well as in the team
• Experienced in using software in complex products with extensive hardware interactions
• Hands-on experience of analytical equipment; specifically FIB/SEM systems
• Experience with TEM analysis is welcome
• Knowledge of programming (e.g. in Python) is an advantage
• Strong communicative skills (both verbal and written)
• Result oriented
• Ability to interact with cross - functional and cross - cultural teams.
• Ability to travel both domestically as well as internationally up to 50% of the time, mostly to South-East Asia region and US
• Language skills (English), willing to learn Czech