Software Engineering Manager

• Recruit, retain, coach, and develop embedded-software and firmware engineers.

• Establish clear expectations for technical quality, ownership, documentation, communication, collaboration, and execution.

• Provide timely, candid, and constructive feedback, recognize strong performance, and address performance concerns fairly and directly.

• Delegate meaningful ownership while providing the direction, context, and support engineers need to succeed.

• Assign work with consideration for technical needs, project priorities, employee capabilities, workload, and development goals.

• Develop engineers' capabilities in architecture, requirements, design analysis, testing, debugging, communication, and cross-disciplinary systems thinking.

• Build a culture in which engineers raise risks early, challenge assumptions constructively, debate technical alternatives objectively, and learn from mistakes.

• Hold the team accountable for complete engineering deliverables—including requirements, design, implementation, documentation, verification, integration, release, and lifecycle support—not only for producing code.

• Give the software team clear priorities, decision frameworks, ownership boundaries, and definitions of success.

• Develop credible plans and estimates based on technical scope, uncertainty, dependencies, staffing, integration needs, and verification effort.

• Distinguish preliminary estimates from commitments supported by adequate requirements and architecture work.

• Maintain visibility into progress, technical risk, resource constraints, dependencies, and unresolved decisions.

• Balance new-product development with sustaining work, defect correction, infrastructure improvement, and appropriate reduction of technical debt.

• Help the team make timely decisions without bypassing necessary engineering work; tailor the level of analysis, documentation, review, and process to the consequences and uncertainty involved.

• Strengthen the team's ability to plan, design, implement, test, integrate, release, and support complex products with increasing independence.

• Represent software opportunities, constraints, and risks in product, system, and business decisions.

• Partner closely with systems, electrical, RF, FPGA, test, quality, manufacturing, service, and product-management teams.

• Help establish clear ownership and resolve priorities, requirements, interfaces, and dependencies that cross functional boundaries.

• Communicate technical status, uncertainty, tradeoffs, resource needs, and risk clearly to engineers, managers, executives, and other stakeholders.

• Contribute to product feasibility, project authorization, architecture reviews, risk assessments, phase-gate decisions, and lifecycle planning.

• Support the testability, diagnosability, manufacturability, serviceability, security, and long-term maintainability of the complete product.

• Contribute to staffing, capability, technology, platform, supplier, and obsolescence plans that extend beyond a single project.

• Improve engineering practices across the organization in ways appropriate to the products, risks, team, and scale of the business.

The successful candidate should bring meaningful depth in several areas relevant to our work and the ability to learn or lead through others in areas outside their own specialty. Relevant experience may include:

• Embedded C or C++ and resource-constrained systems

• Real-time systems, interrupts, concurrency, synchronization, timing, or deterministic behavior

• Embedded Linux, RTOS-based applications, board-support packages, bootloaders, or device drivers

• Hardware/software interfaces, networking, communications protocols, data acquisition, calibration, or hardware-control software

• Software architecture, interface definition, state modeling, error handling, requirements development, or system decomposition

• Unit, integration, regression, and hardware-in-the-loop testing; static analysis; continuous integration; or controlled build and release practices

• Investigation of interactions among software, firmware, FPGA logic, digital hardware, analog hardware, and physical system behavior

Experience with every item above is not required. We are interested in the candidate's command of engineering fundamentals, the quality of their decisions, how they approach unfamiliar problems, and their ability to recognize when specialist expertise is needed.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: (list functions required to do the job)

Able to use phone; communicate using speech; hearing and vision skills; sit or stand for moderate periods

EEO/M/F/VET/DISABILITY EMPLOYER

Bird Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local law.