ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Plan and direct hardware engineering activities to meet the company's objectives
- Connect engineering vision and goals to business goals of the companies
- Lead multi-functional development teams and drive issue resolution for product prototypes and various HW sub-systems like modules, Flex PCBAs, PCBAs at engineering builds.
- Modularize existing products electronics design;
- Conduct design review for all hardware engineering verticals; Collaborate with cross functional teams to develop and qualify products to meet specification, reliability and regulatory;
- Provide technical leadership for all hardware development by directing product design and function
- Evaluate the reliability of materials, properties, and techniques used in production
- Manage and track engineering development schedules and budgets. Identify and prioritize project tasks and risks
- Drive deliveries and issues with global suppliers, integrate their work and schedules into the project, communicate status and the big picture to the project team & management
- Know how to recruit and develop top engineering talent
- Maintain and optimize budgets to meet goals
- Understand and collaborate on the complete product lifecycle from concept to execution
- Recommends new technology and ideas to improve sprints and efficiency
- Work closely with Product marketing to deliver the fast prototype to valid the meaningful innovation in field.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Must have an entrepreneurial spirit, very responsive, hands-on (i.e., ability to do some of the engineering yourself) and willing to work hard, in a fast-paced environment
- Outstanding people manager, with demonstrable experience in managing and leading complex teams, nurturing talent and driving a high performance culture
- Experience with product innovation, at an early stage
- Experience with creating minimum viable products (MVPs) and, testing, iterating, and prototyping
- Must have the experience of successfully leading and managing multiple complex projects starting from design, prototyping through to mass manufacturing.
- Ability to prepare budgets, with regard to a technical roadmap
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven leadership abilities with high-performing teams
- Ability to create assembly instructions and other visual documentation related to manufacturing systems.
- Understanding of Design for Manufacturability.
- Demonstrable technical design experience with a considerable amount of time spent in a leadership position.
- You will possess strong commercial, operational and financial acumen
- Proven leadership in global organization and problem-solving ability, able to resolve conflict amongst cross-functional peers and act decisively to drive product development forward within a fast past and ambiguous environment
- Strong project / program manager skills.
- Demonstrable experience working in a multinational or global electronics company.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to work independently and effectively as a team
- Preferred experience in a consumer electronics environment
- Extensive knowledge of IOT architectures;
- Highly developed hardware design skills;
- Experience in managing direct subordinates, able to hire, coach, and develop AD (advance develop) teams
- Strong written and oral communication skills
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Education: Bachelor / Master in Electronics Engineering or equivalent