Engineering Manager- Embedded Software

## What you’ll do: Leadership and people (manager of managers) \- Lead an organization of 45 to 50 embedded software engineers through 3 to 5 engineering managers and technical leaders. \- Own hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, career development, succession planning and retention for your leaders and their teams. \- Build a strong leadership bench, reduce single-point dependencies and develop the next line of managers. \- Set clear goals and priorities, run an effective operating rhythm, and create a healthy, inclusive and high-performance culture. Delivery and execution \- Deliver more than 95 percent on-time delivery across key portfolios while operating within a flat headcount and budget envelope. \- Own release predictability, software quality, defect triage, field issue resolution and customer escalations. \- Drive Agile and Scrum practices, milestone planning, risk management and cross-team dependency management. Technical governance \- Provide technical direction across embedded firmware, desktop, on-premise, cloud-connected and mobile applications. \- Own architecture governance, design and code reviews, reuse strategy, technical debt reduction and platform thinking. \- Ensure engineering rigor for safety-critical and regulated products, including functional safety and cybersecurity compliance. Portfolio and stakeholders \- Own multiple product lines across emergency lighting, fire safety, intrusion and UPS systems from concept to sustaining. \- Partner with product management, global engineering leaders, quality, supply chain and customers to align roadmaps and commitments. \- Contribute to annual operating planning, capacity planning, vendor strategy and capital and operating expense decisions. Innovation and AI adoption \- Champion AI-assisted engineering (for example code assistants and test automation) and drive measurable productivity and quality gains. \- Lead innovation initiatives, protect time for experimentation, and encourage patents, disclosures and reuse. \- Teach, mentor and coach engineering and Agile best practices across the broader engineering community. ## Qualifications: Required: Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Science or related engineering discipline. Desired: Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Science or Embedded Systems. ## Skills: • 15 to 18 years of design experience of embedded systems software - embedded linux and RTOS • Prior experience as organizational leader for a minum of 5 to 10 years in globally distributed teams • Experience leading organizations with at least 40 members • Experience utilizing best practices in software engineering, Agile development methodologies, CI/CD, DevOps, etc. Experience with budget, staffing and capacity planning for a sizeable engineering organization • Knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management. • Experience in Embedded Systems including RTOS and Linux based platforms - Software stacks of FreeRTOS and Zephyr, Linux - Yocto, EdgeX • Track record of demonstrated lauches of products • Proven digitally savvy leader experienced in delivering monetized IoT products and services to market. • Experienced with software software estimation techniques, fieldbus protocols for industrial IoT products. • Ability to work within matrixed environments. • Proven track record of building and managing successful development teams. • Expert level working knowledge of open source software, agile methodologies, design thinking techniques and ability to employ open, shared and saleable development principles within an enterprise. • Empathizes and actively learns about customer’s needs and how they create value. • Builds relationships outside of engineering teams to understand, influence, and serve as their advocate. • Demonstrated experience in building organizational capabilities around technology; developments high performing talent and builds succession depth. • Strong organizational leadership skills. • Extensive experience in hiring talented people for diverse, productive development teams. • Ability to manage multiple projects and resolve issues that impact deadlines; ability to make decisions quickly under conflicting constraints, moving rapidly to meet the demands of a fast-growing company. • Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate and interact with a variety of internal/external customers and/or co-workers.