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 Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. 

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s 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 team—rooted in collaboration, authenticity, and innovation—you’ll 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.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• 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.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Education and experience: Bachelor's 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 app