Senior Software Engineer, NPI and Release

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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences diagnostics and biotechnology

At Molecular Devices one of Danahers 15 operating companies our work saves livesand were all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

Youll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danahers system of continuous improvement you help turn ideas into impact innovating at the speed of life.

Join Molecular Devices and help drive scientific discovery for life science customers in academia biotech pharma and government. Our automated and AI-enabled technology empowers researchers to tackle complex questions and gain deep insights accelerating the development of safer more effective therapeutics. As part of our teamrooted in collaboration authenticity and innovationyoull ultimately contribute to groundbreaking science that enhances lives globally and shapes a healthier future for all.

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The Senior Software NPI and Release Engineer is responsible for enabling the successful introduction release and ongoing manufacture of software-enabled life science instruments. This senior individual-contributor role develops and maintains shared deployment licensing installation and manufacturing-support systems while coordinating software readiness across product development Operations Quality Manufacturing Engineering Service and Supply Chain. The role owns the software Manufacturing Readiness Review process and ensures accountable teams provide the plans evidence approvals and corrective actions required at each development gate; it does not personally execute every readiness activity.

This position reports to the Senior Manager Software Engineering and is part of the Imaging Software Engineering team located in Downingtown PA. This is an on-site role with no direct reports.

• New Product Introduction and Manufacturing Readiness:Own and facilitate software Manufacturing Readiness Reviews from planning through commercial launch. Track owners evidence decisions and risks against readiness criteria.

• Release Planning and Execution:Coordinate scope milestones and handoffs for release candidates and gold-master images. Ensure required documentation quality evidence training and approvals are complete and traceable.

• Deployment and Manufacturing Tool Engineering:Develop and maintain installers launchers computer-imaging tools manufacturing utilities and instrument-configuration utilities. Package and version dependencies and provide requirements and technical support to DevOps for release infrastructure.

• Licensing Operations Partnership and Launch Support:Maintain product-activation and license-generation services and support NPI builds and production-readiness issues. Troubleshoot incidents that could prevent Operations from building or shipping products.

• Cross-Functional Software Release Readiness:Coordinate software release readiness across Engineering Quality Operations Service Supply Chain and vendors. Drive action closure and maintain Jira QDIP burndown and software release-readiness reporting.

• Education and experience:Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline with 5 years of professional software development release engineering DevOps or software NPI experience; equivalent directly relevant experience may be considered.

• Software development:Strong Python development skills and demonstrated ability to design debug test and maintain production software. Working experience with one or more additional application technologies such as C# TypeScript or Angular and the ability to contribute across unfamiliar codebases.

• Release and deployment engineering:Experience building and supporting software release pipelines Windows installers or deployment packages artifact repositories versioning dependency management release notes and reproducible build processes using tools such as TeamCity PyInstaller PowerShell ProGet/UPack or comparable technologies.

• Services and integration:Experience supporting web applications or services REST APIs authentication or licensing workflows databases and server environments; ability to diagnose production issues from logs and system behavior and deliver durable code fixes.

• Product lifecycle and readiness management:Experience applying configuration management change control defect management verification and validation evidence risk assessment and release criteria within a structured product-development or quality system including responsibility for coordinating owners deliverables and readiness evidence across multiple functions.

• Scientific instruments or regulated products:Software for laboratory instruments medical or life science products industrial automation or other systems combining software firmware hardware and controlled manufacturing processes.

• Software NPI and manufacturing transfer:Manufacturing Readiness Reviews phase-gate product development computer gold-master images manufacturing work instructions prototype or pilot builds production process validation and transfer to contract manufacturers or imaging vendors.

• Product activation and infrastructure technologies:Entitlement licensing key-generation or product-configuration systems together with technologies such as Docker MongoDB Windows or Linux server administration monitoring backup and recovery.

• Up to 10% travel including occasional overnight travel to support manufacturing sites suppliers product transfers or internal planning activities.
• This position requires working on-site at the Downingtown PA location and may require participation in time-sensitive support outside normal working hours when production or product shipment is blocked.

Molecular Devices a Danaher operating company offers a broad array of comprehensive competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether its a health care program or paid time off our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

The annual salary range for this role is $115000 - $125000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together well accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrows science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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