The Director/Senior Director of Electronic and Software Systems is responsible for how EBR’s electronics, firmware, and software work together as a single system. This role ensures that our electrical and software designs are clear, scalable, and well-integrated, both for current products and future generations.
Requirements
- Define and steward system-level architecture across electrical engineering, firmware, and software domains.
- Establish architectural principles, standards, and guardrails aligned with product and technology strategy.
- Lead cross-program electrical and software architectural consistency and technical decision-making.
- Define and maintain a roadmap for electronic and software platforms.
- Identify and prioritize technical debt across EE and software domains.
- Develop modernization strategies that balance innovation, regulatory requirements, risk, and delivery constraints.
- Define platform reuse strategies and technical standards across product lines.
- Forecast future technical capabilities required to support product strategy.
- Provide leadership for electrical engineering, firmware, and software teams, including managers and senior technical leaders.
- Develop technical leaders and architects within each discipline.
- Scale engineering capability through delegation, architectural empowerment, and modern engineering practices.
- Maintain periodic technical engagement to inform leadership decisions without becoming a bottleneck to execution.
- Own EE and software-related DDF/DHF remediation to align with lean QMSR expectations under ISO 13485.
- Ensure compliant but lean traceability between system architecture decisions, design inputs, risks, and verification/validation artifacts.
- Partner with Hardware Development and Quality/Regulatory to modernize SW design control practices while minimizing unnecessary documentation burden.
- Support risk management and design control activities in regulated product development.
- Partner with Hardware Development to define system partitioning and interface boundaries.
- Collaborate with Program Management to ensure architectural risks and trade-offs are visible in program plans and by key cross-functional stakeholders.
- Engage with Product Support Engineering to ensure field learnings inform future system architecture.
- Support VP R&D in architectural resolution when system-level decisions impact product strategy.
- Directly manages engineering managers and senior technical leaders within electrical engineering, firmware, and software.
- Indirectly leads multidisciplinary engineering teams through architectural leadership and technical governance.
- Responsible for performance management, talent development, and organizational scaling within respective domain.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance provided at no cost for employee-only coverage
- 401(k) matching plan
- Paid Time Off – starting at 3 weeks per year
- Competitive salary with opportunities for career growth
- Employee stock options
- Life & AD&D and long term disability insurance
- Education assistance
- Voluntary commuter benefits and pet insurance
- Weekly company lunches and occasional happy hour events
