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Systems Architect roles qualify for EB-2 sponsorship when the position requires an advanced degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, and for EB-3 when a bachelor's degree suffices. Employers file a PERM labor certification with the DOL before sponsoring you for permanent residency.
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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.
Description
Join our team as a Staff, Systems Design – System Architect at Thermo Fisher Scientific. This role provides architecture and technical leadership for embedded software that coordinates, monitors, and controls complex scientific instrument subsystems, rather than focusing primarily on low-level firmware development.
You will define and evolve the embedded software architecture for advanced scientific instruments and laboratory automation platforms. You will work across hardware, systems, application software, quality, and product teams to deliver reliable, maintainable, and scalable software solutions that enable instrument capabilities from concept through release and sustaining support.
The role focuses on embedded software design across instrument subsystems, including workflow orchestration, device communications, subsystem coordination, diagnostics, state management, error handling, data exchange, and integration with higher-level applications. You will guide technical decisions, establish architectural standards, mentor engineers, and help shape reusable software platforms across products.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and technical design of embedded software for complex scientific instruments and laboratory automation platforms.
- Define software boundaries, component responsibilities, interfaces, and communication patterns across embedded subsystems, hardware controllers, and higher-level applications.
- Translate product and system needs into clear embedded software requirements, architecture specifications, design documentation, and implementation plans.
- Architect software for subsystem coordination, workflow execution, device communication, diagnostics, error recovery, event handling, configuration, and state management.
- Partner with electrical, mechanical, firmware, systems, and application software teams to deliver integrated instrument capabilities.
- Establish reusable software architectures, design patterns, coding standards, interface specifications, and technical-review practices.
- Lead technical investigations and root-cause analysis for complex software integration, reliability, performance, and field issues.
- Define and support software verification strategies, including unit, integration, system, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Develop or guide the development of automation and engineering tools that improve software quality, test coverage, and development efficiency.
- Mentor embedded software engineers and provide technical leadership across product development teams.
- Influence technical roadmaps, platform reuse strategy, and improvements to the embedded software development lifecycle.
Minimum Requirements
- Advanced degree plus 6 years of experience, or bachelor’s degree plus 8 years of experience in embedded software development, software architecture, or complex product development.
- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering embedded software for complex electro-mechanical products, scientific instruments, laboratory automation, robotics, industrial systems, or comparable products.
- Strong experience designing modular, maintainable software systems using C++, Python, and/or other relevant programming languages.
- Experience designing software components, service interfaces, communication layers, diagnostics, error handling, and state management across distributed instrument subsystems.
- Experience integrating embedded software with sensors, actuators, motion systems, fluidics, imaging systems, control electronics, or external devices.
- Experience with embedded or real-time operating environments and the practical constraints of software that interfaces with hardware.
- Experience developing automated test frameworks, integration tools, simulation environments, or hardware-in-the-loop test capabilities using Python or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of software design principles, API/interface design, version control, code review, continuous integration, automated testing, and release management.
- Experience leading technical design decisions and influencing cross-functional engineering teams.
- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and mentoring skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with laboratory, analytical, life sciences, medical-device, automation, robotics, or other regulated products.
- Experience with distributed embedded systems, device communications, industrial protocols, Ethernet-based systems, or software services running on instrument-connected platforms.
- Experience with real-time behavior, motion control, fluidics, imaging, precision measurement, or workflow orchestration.
- Familiarity with safety, risk management, cybersecurity, or regulated software-development practices.
- Experience with Linux-based embedded platforms, RTOS-based products, or containerized/edge software environments.
- Experience collaborating with firmware teams; hands-on device-driver, microcontroller, or low-level firmware development is beneficial but not required.
- Experience working in Agile product development environments.
- Ability to travel up to 20% as needed.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $135,900.00–$170,000.00. 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
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
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.
Description
Join our team as a Staff, Systems Design – System Architect at Thermo Fisher Scientific. This role provides architecture and technical leadership for embedded software that coordinates, monitors, and controls complex scientific instrument subsystems, rather than focusing primarily on low-level firmware development.
You will define and evolve the embedded software architecture for advanced scientific instruments and laboratory automation platforms. You will work across hardware, systems, application software, quality, and product teams to deliver reliable, maintainable, and scalable software solutions that enable instrument capabilities from concept through release and sustaining support.
The role focuses on embedded software design across instrument subsystems, including workflow orchestration, device communications, subsystem coordination, diagnostics, state management, error handling, data exchange, and integration with higher-level applications. You will guide technical decisions, establish architectural standards, mentor engineers, and help shape reusable software platforms across products.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and technical design of embedded software for complex scientific instruments and laboratory automation platforms.
- Define software boundaries, component responsibilities, interfaces, and communication patterns across embedded subsystems, hardware controllers, and higher-level applications.
- Translate product and system needs into clear embedded software requirements, architecture specifications, design documentation, and implementation plans.
- Architect software for subsystem coordination, workflow execution, device communication, diagnostics, error recovery, event handling, configuration, and state management.
- Partner with electrical, mechanical, firmware, systems, and application software teams to deliver integrated instrument capabilities.
- Establish reusable software architectures, design patterns, coding standards, interface specifications, and technical-review practices.
- Lead technical investigations and root-cause analysis for complex software integration, reliability, performance, and field issues.
- Define and support software verification strategies, including unit, integration, system, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Develop or guide the development of automation and engineering tools that improve software quality, test coverage, and development efficiency.
- Mentor embedded software engineers and provide technical leadership across product development teams.
- Influence technical roadmaps, platform reuse strategy, and improvements to the embedded software development lifecycle.
Minimum Requirements
- Advanced degree plus 6 years of experience, or bachelor’s degree plus 8 years of experience in embedded software development, software architecture, or complex product development.
- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering embedded software for complex electro-mechanical products, scientific instruments, laboratory automation, robotics, industrial systems, or comparable products.
- Strong experience designing modular, maintainable software systems using C++, Python, and/or other relevant programming languages.
- Experience designing software components, service interfaces, communication layers, diagnostics, error handling, and state management across distributed instrument subsystems.
- Experience integrating embedded software with sensors, actuators, motion systems, fluidics, imaging systems, control electronics, or external devices.
- Experience with embedded or real-time operating environments and the practical constraints of software that interfaces with hardware.
- Experience developing automated test frameworks, integration tools, simulation environments, or hardware-in-the-loop test capabilities using Python or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of software design principles, API/interface design, version control, code review, continuous integration, automated testing, and release management.
- Experience leading technical design decisions and influencing cross-functional engineering teams.
- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and mentoring skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with laboratory, analytical, life sciences, medical-device, automation, robotics, or other regulated products.
- Experience with distributed embedded systems, device communications, industrial protocols, Ethernet-based systems, or software services running on instrument-connected platforms.
- Experience with real-time behavior, motion control, fluidics, imaging, precision measurement, or workflow orchestration.
- Familiarity with safety, risk management, cybersecurity, or regulated software-development practices.
- Experience with Linux-based embedded platforms, RTOS-based products, or containerized/edge software environments.
- Experience collaborating with firmware teams; hands-on device-driver, microcontroller, or low-level firmware development is beneficial but not required.
- Experience working in Agile product development environments.
- Ability to travel up to 20% as needed.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $135,900.00–$170,000.00. 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
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Systems Architect
Translate your architecture credentials for PERM
PERM requires the employer to document that your role demands a specific degree in a matching field. Gather transcripts, certifications like AWS Solutions Architect or TOGAF, and employer letters that tie your credentials directly to the job requirements before applications begin.
Target employers with active EB-2 filing history
Search DOL PERM disclosure data and OFLC labor condition filings to identify companies that have sponsored Systems Architect or similar enterprise architecture roles before. Prior filings signal an in-house process that reduces your sponsorship timeline considerably.
Use Migrate Mate to filter sponsoring employers
Migrate Mate lets you search Systems Architect openings filtered by employers with green card sponsorship history, so you're not cold-applying to companies that have never filed a PERM. Start your search there before reaching out to recruiters.
Clarify the EB-2 versus EB-3 track early
If your role's minimum requirement is a bachelor's degree, the employer may file EB-3 even if you hold a master's. Confirm with the hiring team which category they intend to file under before accepting an offer, since it affects your priority date and wait time.
Understand the PERM supervised recruitment window
DOL requires employers to run a supervised recruitment campaign before certifying the PERM. This typically spans 30 to 60 days and must follow strict advertising rules. Delays here push back your I-140 filing, so ask the employer about their timeline at the offer stage.
Verify your job duties align with O*NET
USCIS uses O*NET occupation data to assess whether Systems Architect duties constitute a specialty occupation. Review the O*NET profile for your SOC code and confirm your offer letter describes duties that match the defined knowledge and skill requirements, not generic IT management tasks.
Green Card Systems Architect: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Systems Architect role typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Systems Architect positions qualify for EB-2 when the employer sets an advanced degree as the minimum requirement, which is common for senior or principal-level roles. Junior or mid-level positions where a bachelor's degree is sufficient typically fall under EB-3. The employer controls which category they file, so confirm this before signing an offer letter.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for a Systems Architect?
H-1B visa is a temporary nonimmigrant visa with a 65,000-slot annual cap and a lottery, while EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship is permanent and has no annual cap on petition filings. The PERM process adds roughly 12 to 24 months before you even reach the I-140 stage, but the outcome is lawful permanent residency rather than a status you must renew every three years.
What documentation should I prepare before a Systems Architect PERM filing?
You'll need official transcripts for every degree you hold, foreign credential evaluations if your degrees are from outside the United States, and employer reference letters that describe your specific technical responsibilities. For Systems Architects, certifications like TOGAF, AWS Solutions Architect, or Zachman Framework credentials can strengthen the specialty occupation argument during USCIS adjudication of the I-140.
How do I find employers who will sponsor a green card for a Systems Architect role?
Use Migrate Mate to search Systems Architect openings filtered by employers with documented PERM and EB-2 or EB-3 filing history. Large technology firms, defense contractors, financial institutions, and healthcare systems regularly sponsor these roles because enterprise architecture is difficult to fill domestically. Targeting companies with prior filings shortens the internal approval process significantly.
Can I change employers after my I-140 is approved but before I receive my green card?
Yes. Once your I-140 has been approved for at least 180 days and you're in the adjustment of status stage, portability provisions under AC21 allow you to move to a new employer in the same or a similar occupational classification without losing your priority date. Systems Architect roles generally share enough SOC code overlap with related senior technical positions to qualify, but confirm with an immigration attorney before switching.