Embedded SW Sr. Manager at FLIR

We are searching for an experienced Embedded Software Team Lead who is passionate about driving innovation and leading a team of skilled engineers in developing high-performance embedded systems. You have a strong technical background in embedded software, particularly in firmware architecture and design, with expertise in C++14, embedded Linux, and working with SoCs like the NXP I.MX and Ambarella CV families. Your experience managing software development teams and guiding them through complex projects will be essential in maintaining a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

You will play a key role in defining and executing embedded software strategies, ensuring code quality, and driving architectural decisions that maximize reuse and performance. With a deep understanding of CI/CD environments, VV requirements, and cybersecurity, you'll ensure that our development processes are aligned with best practices. Experience with video or image processing, network protocols, and quality management systems (ISO, A-SPICE) will be a strong advantage.

As a leader, you inspire trust through open communication, professionalism, and empathy. You are skilled at balancing technical guidance with people management, fostering growth paths for your team, and creating a calm and structured environment, even in fast-paced settings. You thrive in agile environments and are motivated by solving complex challenges, always keeping customer needs at the forefront.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage embedded software development teams.
• Prioritize the work backlog for your team based on input from product management
• Provide technical and process guidance to team members as needed
• Find and help enable paths for professional growth for team members
• Participate in the weekly RD meetings where other team leads and product managers discuss project status
• Ensure product quality, reliability, and performance
• Define and execute embedded software development strategies
• Implement and adhere to best practices in all aspects of the firmware development process including branching strategy, code quality, continuous integration, etc
• Drive the code architectural choices to guarantee high performance and maximum reuse
• Incorporate requirements from other external stakeholders into development roadmap

To give you an idea of the ecosystem you will work in:

• Most people use Linux as their primary desktop operating system
• All firmware is written in C++14 running on embedded Linux
• The code is designed in such a way that it can support most of our cameras
• The SoCs used are mainly from NXP I.MX family and Ambarella CV family
• Code quality is very important for us
• Jenkins servers are used as part of a nightly build and continuous integration system
• We like Atlassian tools and Buildroot

Hard Skills

• Previous experience managing embedded software teams
• Background in firmware architecture and design
• Cybersecurity
• Experience in setting up CI/CD environments
• Embedded systems engineering perspective
• Deep understanding of VV requirements and approaches for embedded SW
• Video or image processing experience is a plus
• Network protocols experience is a plus
• Understanding and preferably experience with implementing quality management systems (ISO, A(SPICE,...)
• Experience with architecture models like OSI, AUTOSAR or similar
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills in English. Dutch is a plus.

Soft Skills

Want to drive the technology forward and challenge yourself and the team to achieve things no one thought were possible

• Are comfortable leading engineers in a scrum / agile setting
• Combine deep technical knowledge with passion to lead people
• Model the behavior you want to see from others with open communication, professionalism, integrity and compassion
• Known to earn the trust of the people you manage as well as external stakeholders
• Can create a calm and productive structure even in highly dynamic situations
• Are equally motivated by helping and being helped
• Are motivated by helping to solve our customers problems

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