Sr Manager Hardware & SW Embedded Engineering

Meet the Team:

Where you come in:

• You lead and manage a highly technical engineering team, including firmware developers and testers.
• You bring expertise in managing complex technologies that deliver the highest performing wearable devices.
• You lead and collaborate with global teams.
• You are responsible for the end-to-end design, from concept to verification, leading the full life cycle from concept to launch of the firmware architecture in Dexcom products.
• You propose and lead technology exploration initiatives, working closely with your teams, including proof of concepts.
• You support and resolve product complaints.
• You deliver technology and product development cycles on time, on budget, and with high-quality results.
• You coordinate and communicate with senior leaders on product roadmap, feature sets, partnership opportunities, key performance indicators, financial results, and other management priorities.
• You successfully transferred New Product Development programs into high-volume electronics production at contract manufacturers.

What makes you successful:

• You have expertise in high-reliability firmware design, including agile development values and principles.
• You have experience in the full firmware development life cycle, including requirements, design, coding, testing, and integration of low-power systems.
• You are recognized as a thought leader in your field, having launched many consumer or medical products.
• You have previous hands-on embedded systems experience as a technical leader for fast-paced, complex product development where power management, signal processing, BLE/Wi-Fi connectivity, memory allocation, and complex algorithms are key product design elements.
• You have experience in bare-metal C programming for embedded ARM microcontrollers, including the use of Make and GCC cross compilers.
• You have transformed SW/FW organizations to implement CI/CD pipeline frameworks, scrum mastership, branching strategies, and utilization of the latest developmental tools.
• You effectively communicate technical topics with a wide range of audiences, including leadership and advanced technology teams.
• You are highly collaborative and have a desire to reach across the organization to understand stakeholder needs and how to meet them.
• You have designed organizations and have a track record of recruiting exceptional talent and building high-performing teams, with proven abilities to manage, mentor, and motivate employees. You can work in a deadline-driven and fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects.
• You show exemplary leadership qualities in motivating teams to a culture where core values matter. You have built a culture of listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable.
• You have expertise in object-oriented programming with Java, C#, or Python.
• You possess broad technical proficiency, functional expertise, business acumen, and people leadership skills.
• You have deep technical expertise in electromechanical products, preferably in the medical device industry and biosensor applications.
• You can interpret complex data and provide clear recommendations, describing the risks and benefits of different approaches, and managing and mitigating those risk/benefit tradeoffs. You maintain quality laboratory standards and record keeping.

Education and Experience:

• Typically requires a bachelors degree in technical discipline with 13+ years of industry experience
• 5-8 years of previous people management experience