Director of Engineering – Integrated Sensor Team

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and cultivate a multidisciplinary engineering team encompassing hardware, embedded/edge software, and software engineering.

• Foster a high-performing engineering culture focused on accountability, technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.

• Set clear expectations, objectives, career development pathways, and performance benchmarks.

• Attract and retain engineering talent as the organization expands.

• Develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders.

• Define and refine the technical strategy and architecture across hardware, edge, and cloud systems.

• Guide architectural choices and technical trade-offs throughout the product lifecycle.

• Establish engineering standards and practices while balancing delivery, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and cost.

• Identify technical risks and dependencies, driving them to resolution.

• Collaborate with Product and Deployment teams to convert requirements into engineering plans.

• Oversee engineering execution in alignment with product and technology roadmaps.

• Create planning and development processes that provide insights into progress, risks, dependencies, and resources.

• Eliminate organizational and technical obstacles.

• Coordinate hardware and software development across design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance phases.

• Integrate feedback from field deployments into product and engineering decision-making.

• Ensure the reliability, availability, performance, observability, security, and operational resilience of the Integrated Sensor platform.

• Establish testing and validation methodologies across hardware, embedded software, and cloud systems.

• Collaborate with Deployment and Operations on installation, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.

• Diagnose and resolve intricate production and field challenges.

• Scale systems from current deployments to a nationwide sensing network.

• Work alongside Product, Deployment, Data Science, Data Engineering, and company leadership on strategy, roadmaps, trade-offs, risks, and priorities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of engineering experience, including substantial leadership roles within engineering teams and organizations.

• More than 5 years of experience in people management, including overseeing senior engineers and/or engineering managers.

• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams across two or more domains: hardware, embedded systems, edge computing, backend software, cloud infrastructure, or distributed systems.

• Background in building and operating products that integrate physical hardware with software systems.

• Demonstrated success in scaling engineering teams, processes, and technical infrastructure as a company or product evolves.

• Strong technical knowledge of modern software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and production systems.

• Experience in establishing engineering standards, development processes, testing methodologies, and operational excellence.

• Proven ability to make informed technical and organizational decisions in ambiguous and fast-paced environments.

• Strong track record in recruiting, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering talent.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of engaging effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• High effectiveness in communication while working within a remote and distributed team.

• Proficiency in English is mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Generous vacation and paid time off policies.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuing education.

• Flexible work environment and remote work options.