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System Design Engineer Intern

Lensa
Pleasanton, CA Intern
POSTED ON 12/31/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/30/2026
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Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Job Description

Join Thermo Fisher Scientific to assist customers in finding cures, protecting the environment, and ensuring food safety, with support to achieve your career goals.

Our interns receive professional mentorship to support future career growth with us. Whether you're looking to come back as a repeat intern or pursue a full-time position post-graduation, our team is here to support your next step!

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $40 billion. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or growing efficiency in their laboratories. Our team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an outstanding combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com. Together with our colleagues, you will actively contribute to making the world a healthier place.

Roles And Responsibilities

  • On site role, mix of lab and office environments. Placed with our Platform Systems Engineering group supporting technology development in capillary electrophoresis, microarray, and qPCR based diagnostics
  • Collaborate with the R&D team to conduct development for next generation diagnostics instrumentation and workflows
  • Design-prototyping, systems integration, debugging complex breadboard systems (optical, electrical, mechanical, fluidics, software, firmware)
  • Perform root cause analysis and refine breadboards and prototypes to meet performance targets

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in prototyping, systems integration, and debugging complex systems
  • Knowledge of genetics tools and workflows (e.g. Sanger sequencing, qPCR, NGS, DNA synthesis)
  • In progress Masters or PhD program in engineering or related discipline preferred
  • In person role; South San Francisco with flexibility to commute Bay Area

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and should not require sponsorship (current or future) for employment visa status. Thermo Fisher does not offer employment in this position to holders of F-1, J-1, H-1, OPT, and CPT Visas for the purpose of obtaining practical experience.

Compensation And Benefits

The hourly pay range estimated for this position based in California is $46,800.00-$77,000.00.

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

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

If you have questions about this posting, please contact support@lensa.com

Salary : $46,800 - $77,000

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