Eindhoven, Netherlands
Internship - Software Engineering / Applied Mathematics - Two-Way Optical Model Calculations
Internship
Health
Software Eng
October 16, 2025
When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. You’ll have the opportunity to grow and learn in a culture that empowers your development. We have built an inclusive, global environment that values the power of diverse talent, backgrounds, and experiences to drive speed, efficiency, innovation, and growth.
As part of the R&D organization, The Material Science TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope) Software Group is committed to bring value-adding and groundbreaking software solutions to our customers that help them with their success. Global Digital covers all software created in the MSD-EM related sites, globally over the world. Main R&D sites can be found in Eindhoven (the Netherlands), Bordeaux (France), Hillsboro (US), Brno (Czech). The group is responsible for the complete software stack, from FPGAs to embedded and application software.
Transmission electronic microscopes are the most sophisticated laboratory instruments that are being developed and used today! Software is crucial into exploiting all the potential of these microscopes, pushing the limits of current physical technologies. These microscopes are used by scientists and engineers in life science, material sciences and semiconductor industry, indirectly affecting our life in many aspects. By contributing into this software development, you might help the development of better vaccines, new lighter and stronger materials, or more efficient semiconductors.
Our optical elements are controlled by a complex model composed of interconnected nodes with specific mathematical functions. These nodes propagate values through the network. Each node processes and transmits data until it reaches the leaves of the graph.
However, some nodes have limitations on the values they can store. During propagation, when a value is rejected due to these limitations, the propagation stops. When this happens all nodes revert to their original values, causing the main operation to return an error.
How can we implement a two-way range calculation between the input and the output nodes to provide the dynamic range and reject set values that exceed this range? The existing input to output calculations are a network of linear and non-linear functions.
In this assignment, you will analyze the specific challenges of implementing a two-way range calculation on the graph from the leaves to the input nodes. One or more proposals for solutions to this problem shall be made, avoiding unnecessary processing when values exceed the allowable values. Hereby the user can be presented with valid limits for the input values for the current optical state of the microscope. Using the chosen solution direction, an implementation as a proof of concept in any programming language will be made, for example in Python or MATLAB. Later to be validated and migrated to the C++ software stack. The latter is not necessarily part of the assignment.
Location will be Eindhoven, on site. The assignment will be accomplished by joining a highly international and culturally diverse team.
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