POSITION SUMMARY

The Research and Development group of the Life Sciences and Mass Spectrometry business unit is offering a unique opportunity for a highly talented individual looking to gain experience and play a role in the design and development of technology critical to supporting Thermo Fisher’s position as the leader in mass spectrometry.

The selected candidate will take part in the company’s Internship Program, where he/she will be part of a highly innovative environment and work in an interdisciplinary team together with R&D scientists, application and marketing specialists, as well as external collaborators.

The intern will be responsible for his/her own project which will focus on evaluating and analyzing operation of ionization sources and orbitrap hybrid and triple quadrupole mass analyzers.

We are looking for those individuals who are passionate about science and software development and have deep interest in pursuing a career in analytical technologies, data analysis and ability to use their programming, scientific and data processing skills to develop world class systems.

The intern will be able to directly contribute to research efforts that aim towards improving performance of one of the key analytical platforms which is likely to produce important commercial impact in the future while being mentored by experts in the field. The intern will also learn various aspects of tuning/troubleshooting procedures for orbitrap hybrid and triple quadrupole instrumentation and gain insight into the key underlying technologies.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Evaluate different aspects of performance of nano-electrospray sources for orbitrap hybrid and triple quadrupole mass spectrometers.
• Develop software code and algorithms that analyze data in log formats, mathematical data sets, graphs etc. and use techniques of AI/ML/DL to analyze data and devise computational models.
• Work together with the multidisciplinary software, science and engineering team to identify potential improvements to the nano-elecrospray ion source and related instrumentation.

• Master's degree in chemistry, physics, engineering, math, computer science, or related discipline
• Aptitude for writing software programs and knowledge of some programming languages like C++ or C# or Python or Lua
• Good communication skills and ability to efficiently present and explain scientific results to people with different backgrounds
• Self-motivated and sense of ownership over the project in order to bring it to successful completion

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