Staff Mechanical Engineer

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day 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, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Position Summary

We are seeking a Staff Mechanical Engineer to join a growing R&D team in Hyderabad supporting sustaining engineering, VAVE, and lifecycle management for the KingFisher sample preparation systems and Detection instruments.

In this role, you will serve as a technical lead for mechanical engineering initiatives, driving design improvements, resolving complex technical issues, and ensuring robust mechanical system performance across product lifecycles. You will play a key role in sustaining and VAVE efforts, while contributing to system integration and helping build capability toward future product development ownership.

Key Responsibilities

Mechanical Engineering Leadership

• Act as a technical lead for mechanical systems and subsystems, including assemblies, mechanisms, enclosures, and thermal/structural components.
• Lead design, analysis, and troubleshooting of mechanical components and systems.
• Drive root cause investigations for mechanical and system-level issues, including field failures and reliability concerns.
• Support design trade-offs, material selection, and tolerance analysis to optimize performance, cost, and manufacturability.
  
  

• Lead mechanical workstreams for sustaining activities, including design updates, component obsolescence, and supplier changes.
• Ensure designs meet reliability, durability, and manufacturability requirements.
• Partner with global teams to support knowledge transfer and maintain product continuity.
  
  

• Identify and implement cost reduction opportunities within mechanical designs and assemblies.
• Collaborate with sourcing and manufacturing to evaluate alternative materials, components, and suppliers.
• Drive design for cost and scalability across platforms.
  
  

• Collaborate with systems, electrical, and software teams to ensure robust system integration.
• Contribute to system requirements, interface definitions, and verification activities.
• Provide input to technology and product roadmap discussions from a mechanical engineering perspective.
  
  

• Collaborate with global R&D teams (Finland, US, Singapore) to support technical alignment and knowledge transfer.
• Partner with Business Unit Product Management to align engineering execution with product priorities.
• Interface with manufacturing, quality, service, and sourcing to resolve issues and improve product performance.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to building mechanical engineering capability within the team.
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in mechanical engineering for complex products or instrumentation.
• Strong experience in mechanical design, CAD modeling, and tolerance analysis.
• Proven ability in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and design improvements.
• Experience working in cross-functional and global engineering teams.
  
  

• Experience with life sciences or analytical instrumentation (e.g., sample prep, PCR/qPCR).
• Experience with VAVE, cost optimization, and design for manufacturability (DFM/DFA).
• Familiarity with thermal analysis, fluidics integration, or precision mechanisms.
• Experience with regulated product development environments.
• Ability to influence and collaborate across teams.
  
  

• Serves as a technical lead for mechanical engineering initiatives across platforms.
• Drives execution of sustaining engineering and VAVE efforts within the mechanical domain.
• Contributes to system-level performance, reliability, and cost improvements.
• Supports the growth of R&D capability in Hyderabad.