Software Engineering Manager (Embedded Systems)

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers specialized in embedded system development.
• Project management, facilitation and participation in architecture, design, developments and maintenance of embedded applications for our content playback sub-system.
• Research hardware trends and work with Electrical Engineering to arrive at the next generation of micro-controllers that are cost effective and performant.
• Create and review system and software requirements.
• Work with stakeholders in R&D, Operations, Sales, and Marketing to collect requirements.
• Organize and participate in design reviews.
• Foster good software engineering practices and mentor junior engineers.
• Encourage thorough code reviews and unit sing.
• Improve branch management, revision control, and build management.
• Agile development, Software documentation and configuration management.
• Review s cases used to perform verification and validation of software.
• Work closely with the QA team.
• Own the data gathering and assist in troubleshooting of products under design or returned/reported from the field.
• Involvement in all aspects of the software engineering process.
• Follow relevant company procedures and help create and maintain relevant documentation.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience building embedded systems software.
• Experience working on embedded systems with C++ as the primary programming platform.
• Experience with embedded operating systems – Windows on x86, Linux in ARM and x86.
• Additional skills: QT, Video, and Security protocols.
• Proficiency in communication protocols (Ethernet and Serial specifically).
• Understanding the OSI model is a plus.
• Experience with version control software (preferably Git), Continuous Integration Build systems (preferably Jenkins), project management tools (like Jira) and automated sing tools.
• Broad experience in Object Oriented Design/Analysis (OOD/OOA).
• Solid understanding of design languages such as UML will be a plus.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Other Ideal Skills

• A year or two for functional management experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of hardware architecture – micro controllers, SOCs etc.
• FPGA programming.
• Experience programming in Python (used as a hardware sing tool or hardware simulator/emulator).
• Experience with image processing and rendering algorithms.
• Familiarity with Agile product development methodology (Scrum in particular) is a plus.
• Exposure to cloud services like AWS or Amazon will be an added plus.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Company Paid Life/ADDDependent Life/ADD
• Voluntary Life/ADD
• 401k with Employer Match
• Vacation
• Personal Time
• Watchfire is an Equal Opportunity Employer.