Senior Manager Hardware Systems Applications Engineering

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Work on-site in the DFW area which is our center of excellence for fleet operations.
• Synthesize top-level business goals with the team charter to plan quarterly goals for the team and work with the team to track and drive them to completion
• Define key inputs and outputs for the team, and develop internal to team processes to ensure consistent execution of the team’s deliverables.
• Define staffing needs for the team and manage resource planning of the existing team to meet business needs (Eg shift scheduling, training needs identification etc)
• Develop and manage cross-functional workflows between software, product, operations and other HW engineering teams to ensure clear handoff on deliverables.
• Develop, maintain and track metrics that provide real-time signal on hardware health and performance
• Communicate upward to leadership with respect to team deliverables, ranging from top-level fleet metrics to low-level details on specific issue investigations on a weekly basis.
• Travel up to 30% from the “home office” to one of: Engineering sites (PIT, MTV), Operations sites (PAL, FTW, El Paso, PHX, HOU) and Remote test locations (TRC Ohio)

Job requirements

• BS in Engineering
• 10+ years managing direct reports including remote / offsite personnel
• 10+ years experience developing RASICs, process definitions, workflow definitions with cross-functional teams.
• 10+ years of work-related experience in the Automotive Engineering field, specifically with sustaining engineering of fielded products.
• Expertise using JIRA for issue management, including creation of custom reports, dashboards etc and driving continuous improvements on existing workflows.
• Ability to be objective (data-driven) and apply an empirical process to solving issues.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools and agents to expedite workflow execution.
• Hands-on experience using data analytics platforms like Mode, Holistics or similar to develop data driven metrics of success at an enterprise level.