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.
Key ResponsibilitiesSoftware Strategy & Technical Leadership
- 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.
Team Leadership & Execution
- 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.
Development Processes & Delivery
- 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.
Product Support & Continuous Improvement
- 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.
Requirements Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field required.
- Advanced degree preferred, or equivalent relevant work experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with progressive responsibility.
- 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.
Technical Knowledge
- 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.
Technical Qualifications
- 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
- Experience with spectroscopy, nuclear instrumentation, gamma-ray systems, radiation detection, laboratory instrumentation, or high-resolution data acquisition preferred.
CompensationEmployee Type: Salaried
Currency: USD
Salary Minimum: 155,000
Salary Maximum: 185,000
Incentive: No
Disclaimer: Where a specific pay range is noted, it is a good faith estimate at the time of this posting. The actual salary offered will be based on experience, skills, qualifications, market / business considerations, and geographic location.
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