Senior Software Engineer, NPI and Release

Danaher Corporation•Downingtown, PA

3d•$115,000 - $125,000•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Nice To Haves

Software for laboratory instruments, medical or life science products, industrial automation, or other systems combining software, firmware, hardware, and controlled manufacturing processes.
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.
Entitlement, licensing, key-generation, or product-configuration systems, together with technologies such as Docker, MongoDB, Windows or Linux server administration, monitoring, backup, and recovery.

Responsibilities

Own and facilitate software Manufacturing Readiness Reviews from planning through commercial launch. Track owners, evidence, decisions, and risks against readiness criteria.
Coordinate scope, milestones, and handoffs for release candidates and gold-master images. Ensure required documentation, quality evidence, training, and approvals are complete and traceable.
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.
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.
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.