Field Application Scientist – Image and Detection Systems

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🦌 Connecticut, Maine, +4 more states – Remote

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💵 $66k - $99k / year

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Provide pre- and post-instrument-sales scientific application support for Imaging & Detection products • Design and deliver customer training through onsite visits, virtual meetings, workshops, webinars, and scientific presentations • Advise customers on experimental design, assay development, workflow optimization, and data interpretation • Troubleshoot scientific, application, and workflow issues across imaging and detection technologies • Help customers maximize instrument value and performance • Collaborate with Technical Support and Service teams to resolve customer issues • Provide scientific guidance on microscopy, live-cell imaging, fluorescence assays, cell analysis, multimode plate-reader applications, western blot imaging, protein detection, image acquisition, image analysis, assay optimization, and quantitative data analysis • Support product evaluations, demonstrations, customer presentations, and scientific discussions with Account Managers and Business Development teams • Provide technical expertise during customer visits, workshops, and seminars • Build relationships with Key Opinion Leaders and scientific collaborators • Represent Thermo Fisher Scientific at conferences, workshops, and customer events • Present seminars on imaging technologies, assay development, and workflow solutions • Monitor emerging technologies and scientific advances in imaging, detection, spatial biology, and protein analysis • Communicate customer feedback, application insights, and market trends to Product Management, R&D, Marketing, and Commercial Leadership • Identify emerging customer needs and opportunities for product innovation • Support product launches with field-based scientific expertise • Deliver technical training to internal commercial teams • Travel approximately 50% throughout the Northeast United States, with occasional travel to other regions as needed

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, or a related life science discipline • 2+ years of laboratory experience using imaging and detection technologies • Hands-on expertise with fluorescence microscopy and imaging-based experimental workflows • 2+ years of experience designing, optimizing, and troubleshooting fluorescence imaging experiments, including sample preparation, staining strategies, controls, and image acquisition • 2+ years of experience using multimode plate readers for absorbance, fluorescence, luminescence, FRET, TR-FRET, ELISA, enzyme kinetics, cell viability, or related assays • 2+ years of experience with protein detection workflows, including western blot imaging • Strong understanding of quantitative assay development and experimental controls • Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and presentation skills • Ability to work independently from a remote home office • Willingness to travel approximately 50% • Valid driver's license • Preferred: PhD in a related scientific discipline • Preferred: experience in imaging core facilities or shared instrumentation laboratories • Preferred: experience with high-end microscopy systems, high-content imaging, automated microscopy, spatial biology, multiplex imaging, or spatial proteomics • Preferred: experience with Celleste, ImageJ/Fiji, CellProfiler, QuPath, HALO, or similar image analysis software • Preferred: hands-on experience with EVOS microscopes, Varioskan plate readers, iBright imaging systems, or comparable technologies • Preferred: experience delivering scientific presentations, workshops, or customer training • Preferred: experience in a customer-facing scientific role such as Field Application Scientist, Applications Specialist, Technical Support Scientist, or Core Facility Scientist

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits package • Bonus opportunity / variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance • Career development programs • Choice of national medical and dental plans • National vision plan, including health incentive programs • Employee assistance and family support programs • Commuter benefits • 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 • Short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy • Competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan • Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with eligible colleagues able to purchase company stock at a discount • Remote home office work arrangement