Director of Software Engineering

Job Purpose:

To lead an international software team in the design of firmware and application software to be used in our product designs.

Nature of Duties/Responsibilities:

Participate in product design processes (quote, design, architecture, debug, review, test, etc) in the development and delivery of firmware. Bring modern software development best practices to the discussions on modernizing our software SOPs.

Hire and supervise Software Project Leads who can interface between our corporate customers and Sanmina’s international development teams. Communicate Sanmina’s software development resources, capabilities and processes to potential customers.

Participate in reviews the design and development of functional tests from Software Unit Testing through Software Verification. Support and lead software and design debug activities.

Train software team members in the required processes for design and creation of software and software systems documentation for commercial and medical products.

Strong leadership and customer-facing skills are required.

Education and Experience Required:

• BS Computer Science, Computer Engineering or BSEE (with applicable experience in software development)
• Embedded firmware experience using C
• Embedded Linux experience (Ubuntu, Yocto, etc)
• Windows Development experience
• 8+ years of coding experience
• 6+ years of software management experience

Highly desired:

• Medical engineering experience
• Ethernet and Cybersecurity experience
• Software repositories like git.
• Electronic systems, software and components
• Product design, debug and testing
• Wireless protocols (Wi-Fi, BLE, Lora)
• Serial, USB, I2C, SPI and CAN experience
• Static Code Analyzer experience.

Pluses:

• Experience using Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Agile Software Development
• Automotive engineering experience.
• 3G, 4G or 5G development experience.
• Safety-based QMS.