[Hiring] Director, Intelligent Instruments & Automation @Danaher Corporation

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives.
• Health care program.
• Paid time off.
• Medical/dental/vision insurance.
• 401(k) to eligible employees.
• Bonus/incentive pay eligibility.