Systems Engineering Intern

System Engineer Intern

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of lifechanging therapies.

Our work in specialty diagnostics from providing diagnostic assays and instruments to clinical monitoring across disease stages improves the diagnosis and management of blood cancers and immune system disorders. Your determination to put patients at the heart of every decision will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on now and in the future.

The Binding Site, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, is a global leader in specialty diagnostics that provides diagnostic assays and instruments to improve the diagnosis and management of blood cancers and immune system disorders. The Binding Site Freelite offering is widely recommended for multiple myeloma diagnosis and monitoring across all stages of the disease by major clinical guideline publications. In addition, The Binding Site is an active and influential contributor to the broader scientific community.

Location/Division Specific Information: Birmingham, UK

Discover Impactful Work:

Do you want to be part of an innovative technical team advancing patient healthcare? Join Thermo Fisher Scientific's Protein Diagnostic Division as a System Engineer Intern! You will contribute to the design and development of products used in clinical laboratories to diagnose patient diseases. You will collaborate with customers, developers and testers to ensure products exceed customer expectations.

A day in the Life:

• Assist in the collection and analysis of user and stakeholder requirements for medical device systems.
• Collaborate with software engineers, hardware engineers, quality assurance, and regulatory affairs to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Support compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., FDA, ISO 13485).
• Participate in design reviews and provide recommendations on system architecture, design, and functionality.
• Develop and maintain system-level documentation, including requirements specifications, design documents, and interface control documents.
• Conduct system-level testing and validation to ensure device performance and safety.
• Diagnose and resolve technical issues.
• Participate in risk management activities, including hazard analysis and failure mode effects analysis (FMEA).

Keys to Success: Education:

• Studying for a degree preferably in Engineering or Science (Biomedical, Electrical, Mechanical, Software, Physics or related field).

Preferred Experience:

• Product Design
• Product Testing
• Service and support of complex systems

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Knowledge of defining technical requirements.
• Ability to create concepts/designs to meet technical requirements.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to solve software and hardware issues.

This role is to start in July/August 2026 for a 1 year internship as part of your degree.