Senior Architect — AI Enablement

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Cepheid, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

At Cepheid, we are passionate about improving health care through fast, accurate, molecular diagnostic systems and tests. As a member of our team, you’ll get to make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale, within an environment that fosters career growth and development. Our mission drives us to develop groundbreaking solutions for the world’s most complex health challenges. Together, we bring MORE change to the world.

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

The Senior Architect — AI Enablement is responsible for serving as the guiding star for AI across our software engineering organization. This is not a strategy-only role: associate will be personally building proofs of concept, embed with scrum teams to implement AI-driven solutions, and shape how our organization adopts AI — from developer productivity tooling to AI capabilities in our products. Associate will work across all engineering teams and their leaders, and partner with Danaher-level AI leadership to ensure our direction stays aligned with the broader enterprise AI strategy.

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This position reports to the VP Software, Cepheid and is part of the Software Engineering located in IDC Bangalore and will be an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Hands-on AI implementation - Design, build, and demonstrate AI proofs of concept (POCs) that solve real problems for our teams, and carry successful POCs through to production-ready patterns.

• Implement solutions using modern AI tooling — LLM APIs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic frameworks, AI coding assistants — integrated with our Java-based technology stack.