
Field Service Engineer III (Semiconductor) Chandler, AZ
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Job overview
The Field Service Engineer supports sophisticated analytical and scientific instruments, including SEM, TEM, and FIB systems, for customers in research, industrial, and healthcare settings. The role installs, maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs equipment, primarily in the Chandler territory, with occasional travel of up to 50%. The position seeks an experienced service engineer with advanced technical expertise and customer-facing skills.
Skills & qualifications
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Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Able to lift 40 lbs. without assistance, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)
Job Description
When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.
Location/Division
The Materials and Structural Analysis Electron Microscopy (M&SA EM) business enables customers to find meaningful answers to questions that accelerate breakthrough discoveries and ultimately change the world. The M&SA EM business designs, manufactures, and supports the broadest range of high-performance microscopy workflows that provide images and answers in the micro-, nano-, and picometer scales.
How will you make an impact?
As a Field Service Engineer II at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll contribute to delivering excellent service for sophisticated analytical and scientific instruments, including Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEM), and Focused Ion Beam (FIB) . Working with customers across research, industrial, and healthcare settings, you'll install, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair complex equipment while providing exceptional customer service.
Territory:
Work will primarily be in the Chandler area with occasional travel (up to 50% travel to NM, WI, international, etc.) as needed. The ideal candidate will reside within the assigned territory (AZ), with a strong preference for candidates based in Chandler, AZ within one hour of a major airport.
Combining hardware and software expertise in electron, ion, and light microscopy with deep application knowledge in the materials science, life sciences, electronics, and natural resources markets, the worldwide Electron Microscopy employees are dedicated to customers' pursuit of discovery and resolution to global challenges.
Day to day activities include:
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Conduct on-site installation of sophisticated equipment and follow testing procedures to ensure accurate working order
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Conduct on-site scheduled planned maintenance visits
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Provide diagnosis and repair support for customers and other field personnel
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Cultivate and develop positive working relationships with customers, system users, and company personnel
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Travel, often on short notice, to customer sites to resolve problems or support other field service personnel
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Complete and submit field service reports
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Provide training to customers and users on system maintenance
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Provide feedback to product quality teams
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Provide appropriate input in writing updating and correcting various Thermo Fisher system documentation
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Provide guidance for various reports including identifying and isolating outstanding problems with the system
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Act as a subject expert and resource for training
How will you get here?
This position is ideal for an experienced service engineer wanting to be involved with a team with varied strengths and exposed to a constant variety of customer application areas.
Minimum Education/Experience
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Advanced Degree plus 3 years of experience, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of hands-on technical experience in electronic systems, installing, troubleshooting, repairing, and calibrating sophisticated analysis tools such as SEM (https://www.thermofisher.com/search/browse/category/us/en/90184058?gptExactMatch=true) , TEM (https://www.thermofisher.com/search/browse/category/us/en/90184060?gptExactMatch=true) , FIB (https://www.thermofisher.com/search/results?query=Focused%20Ion%20Beam&focusarea=Search%20All) , or similar systems; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
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A detailed understanding and extensive experience diagnosing and repairing ultra-high vacuum and high voltage systems, or similar systems.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
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Ability to deal effectively with customers
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Excellent interpersonal communication skills; must have a professional working proficiency in English
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Consistent record of fixing sophisticated systems and subsystems down to the component level
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Literate in MS DOS and Windows software environments
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Able to read and interpret schematics
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Familiar with UHV phenomenon and technology
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Must have ability to acquire a valid passport and travel regionally and internationally as required
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Must possess a valid driver’s license
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Physical requirements include the ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,314 open Field Service Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$82–120K/yr497 salary ranges
- Arizona median$31–42/hr36 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 58 open Field Service Engineer jobs in Arizona and 1,314 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Arizona
- KLA Corporation12 open
- Applied Materials9 open
- ThermoFisher Scientific (this employer)5 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Field Service Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (938 postings).
- Education
- 355 of the 1,314 open Field Service Engineer jobs (27%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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