Automation Software Development Engineer

Job Title Automation Software Development Engineer Job Description Software Development Engineer The Automation Software Development Engineer plays a critical role in advancing software quality, reliability, and development efficiency through the design and implementation of robust automation solutions. You will serve as a technical leader within the team, driving best practices, enabling continuous improvement, and ensuring high engineering standards across automation, testing, and development workflows. You will collaborate closely with other software developers, QA, product managers, and DevOps to deliver scalable automation frameworks, performance monitoring solutions, and integrated tooling that support high-quality product delivery throughout the software development lifecycle.

Your role:

Defines and drives automation quality goals and development practices in partnership with the team, promoting continuous improvement through rigorous engineering standards, test strategies, and automation methodologies. Designs, develops, and maintains scalable automation frameworks, test infrastructure, and supporting tools to validate functionality, performance, reliability, and integration across products and services. Integrates software components, automation frameworks, and third-party libraries into existing systems and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless interoperability with minimal impact to development velocity. Develops software to log, store, and analyze performance metrics, test results, usage data, and error signals, enabling continuous monitoring, early issue detection, and data-driven quality improvements. Conducts and participates in code and automation reviews, providing actionable, constructive feedback to ensure adherence to coding standards, maintainability, and long-term quality. Analyzes and optimizes system and automation performance, identifying test gaps, inefficiencies, and bottlenecks to improve execution time, coverage, reliability, and overall user experience. Collaborates cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and QA engineers to define requirements, design automation strategies, and ship features aligned with business and user needs. Identifies opportunities to improve existing workflows and automation processes through tooling, test strategy refinement, and continuous integration improvements. You're the right fit if: You've acquired 3+ years of experience to develop, design, code, and test complex solutions and possess solid understanding of object-oriented software development concepts and methodologies. Your skills include .NET Framework, C#, Azure DevOps (ADO), Github, CI/CD pipelines & DevOps, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, and BDD knowledge. You have a Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent discipline, required. You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position. How we work together We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company's facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company's main facilities, generally at the customers' or suppliers' locations. This is an office role. About Philips We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others. Learn more about our business. Discover our rich and exciting history. Learn more about our purpose. Learn more about our culture. Philips Transparency Details The pay range for this position in Cambridge, MA is $128,000 to $205,000. The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity. In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here. At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case. Additional Information US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future. Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Cambridge, MA. #ConnectedCare #LI-PH1 This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration. Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace. At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people's health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life. For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health. Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success. 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