Director, Intelligent Instruments & Automation

About the role

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The Director, Intelligent Instruments & Automation is responsible for advancing the enterprise capabilities required to scale intelligent scientific workflows, interoperable laboratory systems, autonomous workcells, and the compute architectures that enable AI-enabled and autonomous laboratory solutions across Danaher.

This position reports to the VP and Enterprise Head of Autonomous and Intelligent Labs and is part of Danaher Corporate Science & Technology. The role partners across operating companies, enterprise teams, customers, and strategic technology partners to translate enterprise strategy into scalable standards, reference architectures, deployment models, and customer-facing capabilities.

This position is remote.

In this role you will have the opportunity to

• Advance laboratory interoperability and industry standards. Define and drive adoption of enterprise requirements for automation-ready instruments, APIs, data models, connectivity, and workflow integration. Evaluate and apply standards and protocols including MHS, MCP, SiLA 2, OPC UA/LADS, and ANSI/SLAS standards as appropriate to each device, modality, and customer environment. Translate requirements into product roadmaps, reusable interfaces, and testable implementation criteria while preserving proprietary capabilities and commercial flexibility.
• Lead Integrated Autonomy strategy and execution. Define and govern the enterprise roadmap for intelligent workflows, autonomous workcells, and lab-in-the-loop experimentation. Connect scientific workflows, automation platforms, instruments, data systems, and AI into reliable integrated solutions, reusable architectures, and deployment playbooks aligned with Danaher’s long-term autonomous science strategy.
• Develop smart compute and edge AI capabilities. Define the enterprise smart compute strategy for intelligent instruments, integrated workflows, AI-enabled analysis, and autonomous laboratories. Evaluate edge, local, cloud, and hybrid approaches across latency, security, reliability, cost, and deployment requirements, establishing repeatable architectures that scale across applications, operating companies, and customer environments.
• Translate innovation into scalable customer and commercial solutions. Use internal laboratories and strategic programs to develop, test, and mature capabilities under real operating conditions. Partner across product, engineering, scientific, and commercial teams to turn validated capabilities into external products, workflows, workcells, services, and reusable technology foundations that reduce integration effort and enable new commercial opportunities.
• Lead cross-company execution and the external technology ecosystem. Align priorities, investment, roadmaps, ownership, adoption, and measurable outcomes across operating companies and business units. Engage strategic technology partners, research organizations, suppliers, and industry collaborators to accelerate delivery, reduce duplication, strengthen differentiation, and inform build, buy, partner, and platform decisions.

Essential Requirements

• Experience leading complex technical programs in laboratory automation, scientific instrumentation, workflow software, AI-enabled systems, digital platforms, or related technologies.
• Experience integrating hardware, software, automation, data, AI, and scientific methods into reliable products, workflows, or platforms, including knowledge of instrument APIs, SDKs, and laboratory interoperability.
• Track record of translating emerging technologies and internal innovation into scalable solutions and measurable business value, spanning strategy, architecture, validation, deployment, adoption, and commercialization.
• Experience leading cross-functional and cross-business initiatives across technical disciplines and organizational boundaries, aligning product, engineering, scientific, commercial, and executive stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of established and emerging laboratory standards and protocols, including MHS, MCP, SiLA 2, and OPC UA/LADS, with the ability to assess applicability, maturity, architecture implications, and implementation trade-offs.

Additional information

Danaher offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

At Danaher, we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Danaher can provide.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role is $200,000-$230,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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