Senior Software Engineering Manager, System Software

Description

The company is a new AI innovation lab inside a larger corporation. It pairs a startup's pace with the reach of a global business, and it builds intelligent tools that change how people work, make things, and collaborate.

The team brings together engineers, designers, researchers, and product people to build adaptive, easy-to-use features across the company's product range, with people at the centre of every decision.

The System Software team builds on-device experiences that make full use of the hardware. It works with internal and external partners on hardware, sensors, algorithms, and interaction models, and suits people who like hard, cross-disciplinary problems.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a high-performing embedded software team in a startup-style setting, including mentoring.
• Act as the technical lead and final escalation point for complex hardware and software integration problems.
• Explain the technical vision, risks, and progress to cross-functional teams and executives.
• Set system-level strategy, architecture, and technical direction across several products.
• Lead delivery of low-level driver and framework software in C and C++ across multiple devices and operating systems.
• Coordinate hardware and software integration so that cross-functional teams stay aligned.
• Drive performance, power, and thermal optimisation work.
• Split your time between hands-on engineering and leadership, covering design reviews, mentoring, and accountability for delivery.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to set roadmaps, priorities, and deliverables.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in system software engineering, embedded platform software development, or both.
• At least 5 years leading engineering teams, covering mentoring, hiring, team growth, and working through ambiguity in fast-moving settings.
• Strong depth in system design and architecture.
• Skilled in embedded C and modern C++.
• Experience developing on Windows, Android, or Linux.
• Experience building stable APIs that stay backward compatible, scale well, and are easy to maintain across system software platforms.
• A track record of leading teams in fast-moving environments.
• Experience running cross-functional programs from concept through to delivery.
• Preferred: familiarity with optimisation tools such as Perfmon and Perfetto.
• Preferred: working knowledge of Java, Kotlin, or both.
• Preferred: experience porting reference algorithms to hardware accelerators such as GPUs and DSPs.
• Preferred: experience with board bring-up, driver development, and communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, and UART.
• Preferred: familiarity with ARM System-on-Chip (SOC) architecture.
• Preferred: experience developing bare-metal firmware for microcontrollers.
• Preferred: ability to use common lab equipment, such as logic analysers, to debug low-level software issues.

Conditions

The pay range for this role appears above. The final salary depends on several factors, including job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

The company offers a broad benefits package, described below.

Generous time off, including 4-12 weeks of fully paid parental leave depending on tenure, 11 paid holidays, and additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave. US benefits overview available separately.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee assistance programme
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Innovative work on the future of intelligent computing and workplace change.
• Startup speed and focus, backed by the resources of a global company.
• Work on AI-powered solutions that help people and organisations thrive.
• Flexible work arrangements that let you do your best work.
• A forward-thinking culture focused on fast learning and imagining what comes next, together.