Associate Director - Embedded Engineering

Job Function, Roles & Responsibilities :

Lead technology initiatives for strategizing and owning Industry 4.0 and related business practices, with relevant experience in Industry 4.0 & IIoT

Overall responsibility of end-to-end project execution & delivery within planned schedule for multiple projects simultaneously

Project requirements understanding, dissemination into individual tasks, effort estimation and planning.

Upholding customer satisfaction through value-based delivery

Interface with global customers for project status accounting, task planning and delivery

Defining and managing daily tasks and responsibilities of the project team, with an ability to lead 30-50 cross functional team members spread across multiple projects

Stakeholder management from cross-functional teams within organization and external vendors / partners

Escalation management from customers or internal stakeholders

Understand business pipeline through sales and senior management, define hiring plans and conduct interviews

Manage compliance to Quality Management System (QMS), and participate in project audits by SEPG group

Responsible for conducting annual appraisals, providing regular developmental feedback to team, and identifying skill gaps to plan internal and external training

Foster an open work-culture to instill confidence in the team, and encourage diversity of perspectives and sharing of knowledge

Area of expertise :

Expertise in industrial projects with manufacturing applications, controls, and analytics, with good exposure to PLC, DCS and SCADA systems

Expertise in working with industrial interfaces and protocols such as MODBUS, PROFIBUS, FIELDBUS, OPC UA

Overall project management & delivery

Risk management (risk identification, tracking, mitigation and contingency planning)

Customer communication (US and Europe based customers)

Strategic account management and long-term growth

Embedded firmware architecture development for Industrial IoT (IIoT) domain

Expertise in various processor and microcontroller architecture

Expertise in bare metal, RTOS and device driver development

Expertise in Linux Kernel programming, device driver development, multi-threaded applications

Expertise in different distributions such as Yocto and openWRT

Expertise in C and OOPS Programming languages, data structure, and design patterns in C++

Expertise in bootloader (U-Boot) development for embedded systems

Experience in wireless technologies such as Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, BLE, Threads, WiFi, and Sub-GHz

Experience with debugging tools such as KGDB, GDB, Valgrind, and static code analyzers

Experience in networking protocols such as TCP / IP, UDP, MQTT, HTTP, GSM, GPRS

Experience in serial communication interfaces such as RS-232, RS-485, I2C, SPI, MODBUS and CAN

Experience in Embedded GUI Development, particularly with QT or similar frameworks, is advantageous

Skills :

Programming Languages : C, C++, and Python

Hands-on BSP, board bring up development experience

Linux kernel development with low-level driver experience, BSP, the board bring-up SDK development knowledge

Write high-quality, efficient, extensible, and maintainable code in a fast-paced Agile environment

Interfaces : PCIE, USB, I2C, SPI, MDIO, MQTT, Rest API

Wireless : Z Wave / ZigBee / Matter / Thread / BLE / WIFI

Hardware schematics review and PCB debugging

Microcontroller / Microprocessors : 16 / 32-bit Debugging applications using debugging tools.

Debugging Hardware and low-level firmware using schematics

Debugging tools : like logic analyzer, digital oscilloscope, JTAG, KGDB, JDB

Expert in USB, AUDIO / VIDEO, RF protocols

Cloud communication : AWS or Azure or customer cloud

Build system : Yocto, OpenWRT, Makefiles etc

Embedded GUI Development – QT or similar

Expertise in at least one technology - Wi-Fi, audio / video, display, camera

Experienced with SCRUM-based project management tools such as JIRA, DOORS, Agile

Embedded GUI Development – QT or similar

Working experience in security algorithms encryption and decryption

Debugging Hardware and low-level firmware using schematics

Debugging tools : like logic analyzer, digital oscilloscope

Complete SDLC life cycle understanding

Scrum master certifications in team management