Job Title: Global Software Engineering Manager
Oak Ridge, TN, US, 37831
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 Responsibilities
Software 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:
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- Embedded Linux
- RTOS
- C/C++
- C#
- .NET
- Python
- HTML/JavaScript
- Automated test frameworks
- Docker
- Secure software development practices
- SBOM practices
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- Experience with spectroscopy, nuclear instrumentation, gamma-ray systems, radiation detection, laboratory instrumentation, or high-resolution data acquisition preferred.
About the Business Unit
Headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, ORTEC is part of Advanced Measurement Technology (AMT) within the Materials Analysis Division of AMETEK, Inc. ORTEC is a global leader in the design and manufacture of precision radiation detectors, nuclear instrumentation, analysis software, and integrated measurement systems. Founded in 1960 by scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORTEC has built a long-standing reputation for technical excellence, reliability, and innovation in nuclear measurement solutions.
ORTEC’s product portfolio includes high purity germanium (HPGe) radiation detectors, scintillation detectors, digital spectrometers, analysis software, and turnkey spectroscopy systems used across homeland security, nuclear safeguards, health physics, waste assay, radiopharmaceuticals, and scientific research applications. ORTEC solutions are trusted by government agencies, nuclear facilities, research laboratories, universities, and industrial customers worldwide.
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