Manager III, Software Dev, Hardware Compute Group
About the role
The Silicon and Systems Group (SSG) is seeking an Embedded Software Development Manager to lead the Product BSP team. This role involves two distinct charters: ownership of the embedded security coprocessor firmware and tooling across the silicon lifecycle, and ownership of shipped-product software.
Responsibilities
Lead and grow a geographically distributed team of embedded software engineers across the US and India.
Hire and develop talent with deep expertise in firmware, kernel development, and production systems.
Set clear goals aligned to product ship milestones and post-launch sustaining commitments.
Serve as the escalation point for cross-functional technical decisions spanning security, field quality, and software maintenance.
Own the end-to-end lifecycle of the embedded security coprocessor firmware stack spanning OTP provisioning, manufacturing firmware, boot ROM, and associated security tooling.
Drive execution of irreversible hardware security decisions including OTP fuse programming, secure boot key enrollment, and ROM patch deployment.
Coordinate with factory manufacturing partners on secure provisioning flows including HSM integration, key injection, and production line OTP programming.
Own security tooling infrastructure including build pipelines, code signing, secure debug authentication mechanisms, and virtual platform validation.
Own field metrics strategy and execution for deployed devices, including kernel-to-cloud telemetry pipelines, crash monitoring (MTBF, kernel panics, silent reboots), and BSP performance metrics across display, codec, graphics, audio, and camera subsystems.
Triage and prioritize field issues escalated from production devices on beta and public OTA groups.
Drive root cause analysis for hardware-software interaction failures observed only at scale, coordinating across BSP, platform, and product teams.
Establish proactive monitoring that identifies degradations before they impact customer experience.
Own BSP software feature development and long-term maintenance for all shipped silicon products.
Drive new platform capabilities that enhance product functionality post-launch, while simultaneously managing kernel CVE remediation, Yocto platform uplevels (LTS kernel migrations), Mesa/GPU driver updates, and middleware security patches.
Drive the prioritization and execution of security vulnerability response across multiple SoC platforms simultaneously, balancing ship timelines against security risk.
Own the process for delivering new BSP features and upleveling critical software components (kernel, graphics stack, multimedia frameworks) on shipped products without regressions, coordinating regression testing campaigns with SQA and partner teams.
Qualifications
7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
3+ years of managing system or software development teams experience
Experience with any combination of the following: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing
Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations, or experience managing teams