About
This role combines hands-on development with team leadership (player/coach leadership model), driving architecture, design standards, and delivery across a multi-layered Linux-based system. Responsible for release planning, backlog prioritization, and mentoring engineers, this position focuses on high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions aligned with product and business goals. The role collaborates closely with hardware, data analytics, and product management to ensure seamless system integration while reducing technical risk and improving development efficiency.
Responsibilities
(Essential Functions):
1. Direct the day-to-day activities of the software engineering team, aligning short-term and long-term business needs. 2. Serve as technical lead and architect for the software platform, driving design decisions, coding standards, and system scalability. 3. Act as a player/coach by contributing to code, design, debugging, and critical problem resolution while mentoring and developing team members. 4. Coordinate with project, product and business management to effectively plan and prioritize development tasks 5. Establish and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and continuous integration. 6. Collaborate cross-functionally with hardware engineering, data analytics, and product teams to ensure seamless system integration. 7. Identify and mitigate technical risks, improve system reliability, and eliminate single points of failure within the software stack. 8. Drive continuous improvement in development workflows, team efficiency, estimation accuracy, and delivery predictability. 9. Lead release planning and deployment coordination to ensure timely, stable, and well-executed software releases. 10. Perform other related duties as assigned.
Experience, Education, & License Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering field required. • Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience required. • 3 plus years of experience leading an engineering team required. • 3 years of experience in rail industry is preferred. • Experience developing products with embedded CPU architectures preferred. • Experience with hierarchical multi-level Linux-based product design and development preferred.
Skills & Abilities:
• Working knowledge with electronic based product development and manufacture. • Working knowledge with measurement, data acquisition, data storage and data analysis. • Working knowledge of TCP/IP networks. • Understanding web-based application development. • Excellent project and task management skills. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. • Strong goal setting, planning and prioritizing skills.
Competencies:
• Timely Decision Making • Planning • Problem Solving • Directs Others • Manages Diversity • Results Focused • Developing Direct Reports • Innovation Management • Strategic Agility • Global Business & Technology Acumen • Managing and Measuring Work • Leads Organizational Collaboration
Experience Required
3 year(s): Experience Leading an Engineering Team Required.
8 year(s): Relevant experience required.
Preferred
3 year(s): Experience in Rail Industry is Preferred.
Education Preferred
Bachelors or better in Computer Engineering
Bachelors or better in Civil Engineering
Bachelors or better in Mechanical Engineering
Licenses & Certifications Preferred
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Languages
- English
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