[Remote] Manager, Instrument Software Engineering
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Agilent Technologies is a leading company in the field of scientific instrumentation and software solutions. They are seeking a Manager for their Instrument Software Engineering team, responsible for managing a software engineering team delivering platform and data services while ensuring engineering quality and team growth.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day delivery of the team's platform and data services — including ingest, transformation, and replication work
- Manage legacy and sustaining-support work and the associated contractor team
- People management — hiring, performance, and growth for the team
- Coordinate with peer teams across regions to keep shared SDKs, contracts, and data models consistent
- Set sprint-level technical priorities and uphold delivery quality and engineering standards
- Lead the team's adoption of agentic-AI development and test tooling, and the monolith to microservices transition for its services
Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree or equivalent plus directly relevant experience
- 7+ years in software engineering, with 2+ years of people leadership or a strong tech-lead-to-manager trajectory
- Hands-on with data services and backend distributed systems on a cloud-native stack (Kubernetes, Go and/or .NET)
- Experience with legacy / sustaining-support work and with managing contractor teams
- Strong collaboration in a distributed, cross-time-zone organization
- 5+ years applying AI/ML, including hands-on use and deployment of agentic AI in development and test workflows (AI-assisted coding, automated testing)
- Strong container-based orchestration (Kubernetes): deployment, tuning, and model serving
- Delivery in rapid release cycles within a regulated environment (21 CFR Part 11 / GxP)
- Hands-on decomposing legacy monoliths into microservices — specifically transforming workstation-based enterprise applications into containerized client-server web applications
Benefits
- Eligibility for bonus
- Stock
- Benefits
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