Firmware and Embedded Engineering Manager 3

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:d

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of embedded software engineers, providing clear expectations, meaningful feedback, development opportunities, and support for individual growth.

- Own people leadership responsibilities including hiring, onboarding, performance management, recognition, employee development, conflict resolution, and creating an inclusive and accountable team environment.

- Partner closely with software engineering leadership, technical and feature leads, project teams, and global partners to align priorities, staffing, capacity, commitments, and resource needs across new product development and sustaining engineering.

- Improve team efficiency and execution by coaching engineers and Scrum Teams to plan, estimate, break down, own, and manage their work effectively in Azure DevOps.

- Help establish, reinforce, and continuously improve shared engineering processes, Agile/Scrum ways of working, tools, metrics, and disciplined execution of SDLA and IEC 62443-4-1 aligned practices.

- Monitor team execution and organizational health, surface risks and constraints, remove barriers, resolve conflicts and execution issues, and drive accountability and continuous improvement.

- Partner with technical leaders who own deeper technical plans, schedules, work breakdown, estimates, risks, design decisions, technical reviews, and sprint execution, clarifying project-specific responsibilities through plans and RACI as needed.

- Contribute technical perspective where beneficial while keeping the primary focus on people development, organizational effectiveness, team execution, and high-quality results rather than carrying regular software development capacity.

Who You Are:

- You create clarity, align teams around priorities, and hold yourself and others accountable for delivering commitments

- You build trust through open communication, collaboration, and consistent follow-through.

- You have grown your career through embedded software engineering roles and understand the challenges engineer face because you have solved many of them yourself.

- You leverage Agile, Scrum, and Azure DevOps as tools to improve execution while ensuring technical quality, sound engineering decisions, and customer outcomes.

- You combine strong engineering judgment with people leadership, helping teams deliver results while developing individual capability.

- You develop people through coaching, feedback, mentoring, and meaningful growth opportunities.

- You balance short-term execution with long-term capability building, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.

- Korn Ferry Competencies: Drives Results, Ensures Accountability, Collaborates, Instills Trust, Strategic Mindset, Cultivates Innovation, Communicates Effectively, Builds Effective Teams.

For This Role, You Will Need:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science from an engineering school required.

- Minimum of twelve (12) years of applicable experience

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

- Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management, conflict resolution, employee development, hiring, and building effective engineering teams.

- Experience leading software engineering teams and improving execution, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across multiple projects or priorities.

- Experience with Agile/Scrum software development and Azure DevOps, including coaching teams on backlog quality, planning, estimation, work ownership, capacity, metrics, and delivery practices.

- Experience managing priorities, staffing, workload, organizational risks, and resource constraints while partnering effectively with project and technical leaders.

- Background in embedded software, firmware, software test, or test automation, with sufficient technical understanding to coach engineers and partner credibly with technical leaders.

- Experience with software development lifecycle processes and tools, including requirements management, traceability, reviews, configuration management, continuous integration, and quality practices.

- Experience with secure software development lifecycle practices; familiarity with IEC 62443-4-1 or a similar product cybersecurity standard is preferred.

- Demonstrated ability to build trust, resolve issues, communicate technical and organizational decisions clearly, and lead effectively across global, cross-functional, and reporting boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:

- We're building the next generation of Liquid Analysis products around a highly visible program with significant market potential. It's real embedded engineering across software, electronics, sensors, communications, automation, cybersecurity, and test. We're also growing the software team around it, so people joining now can influence not only the products, but architecture, automation, engineering practices, AI, and how the team works.

Our Culture & Commitment to You:

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