Global Software Engineering Manager

Ametek, Inc. • Oak Ridge, TN

3d

About The Position

The Global Software Manager leads software development activities for the ORTEC product portfolio, overseeing application software, embedded systems, firmware, and cloud-connected solutions. This role is responsible for software strategy, technical direction, team leadership, and delivery execution across new product development, sustaining engineering, and platform modernization initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field required.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with progressive responsibility.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, embedded systems, firmware, device communication, data acquisition, test automation, release management, and hardware/software integration.
• Working knowledge of verification and validation processes, requirements traceability, release controls, and product development documentation.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, including Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Test Plans, branch policies, CI/CD automation, and release dashboards.
• Experience with cloud computing technologies, particularly Azure services, cloud-connected products, virtualized test environments, telemetry, diagnostics, or cloud-hosted engineering infrastructure.
• Experience managing connected instruments and remote device management, including provisioning, configuration, software and firmware updates, fleet health monitoring, diagnostics, and service workflows.
• Experience with one or more of the following: Embedded Linux, RTOS, C/C++, C#, .NET, Python, HTML/JavaScript, Automated test frameworks, Docker, Secure software development practices, SBOM practices.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 3+ years of people leadership, technical leadership, or software management experience preferred.
• Experience delivering software for complex instrumentation, embedded systems, hardware-integrated products, scientific instruments, industrial systems, medical devices, aerospace/defense applications, or other high-reliability products.
• Experience with spectroscopy, nuclear instrumentation, gamma-ray systems, radiation detection, laboratory instrumentation, or high-resolution data acquisition preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead software strategy, architecture direction, and execution standards for ORTEC applications, embedded systems, firmware, device interfaces, and product features.
• Drive the development of Windows applications, embedded software, instrument control systems, data acquisition solutions, communication protocols, diagnostics, installers, and hardware/software integrations.
• Lead secure software development lifecycle practices and promote a culture of cybersecurity and software development best practices.
• Manage configuration management, documentation standards, defect triage processes, and long-term software maintainability.
• Manage and develop application and embedded software engineering teams supporting new product development, sustaining activities, and platform modernization efforts.
• Translate product and business requirements into staffing plans, backlogs, milestones, release plans, risk mitigation strategies, and measurable deliverables.
• Establish priorities, assign ownership, manage performance, coach team members, and address execution or quality gaps.
• Communicate schedule risks, technical risks, resource constraints, tradeoffs, and corrective actions to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Advance the effective use of Azure DevOps or equivalent tools for work tracking, source control, code reviews, CI/CD, test planning, traceability, and release readiness.
• Ensure verification, validation, requirements traceability, release controls, and product development documentation are effectively maintained.
• Collaborate with engineering, product management, quality, manufacturing, service, sales, and customer support teams to align software deliverables with business objectives.
• Support field escalations, production issues, engineering change requests, obsolescence risks, customer commitments, and corrective actions while maintaining roadmap priorities.
• Demonstrate the ability and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and cost efficiency.
• Identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior