Sr Manager Hardware and Embedded Engineering
Dexcom Inc
The Company
Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And we're just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what we've started: Improving human health.
We are driven by thousands of ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. We've already changed millions of lives and we're ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. We'll get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though we've come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us.
Meet the Team:
The position is for a local leader of Hardware and Embedded Software Engineering in the role. The Senior Manager of Engineering has technical expertise in firmware and embedded systems engineering, will lead engineers and provide technical guidance throughout the development cycle. The R&D team is embarking on a transformational journey in deploying best in class agile methodologies, which the Senior Manager Engineering will lead working closely with Electrical, Algo, and SW development teams. Key responsibilities include technical ownership of projects, investigations, coordination of engineering activities across multiple functions with a deep understanding of component and system level interaction.
The position requires strong technical knowledge and experience in firmware design and testing. Experience in electromechanical systems is preferred.
Where you come in:
- You lead and manage a highly technical engineering team, including firmware developers and testers.
- You bring expertise in managing complex technologies that deliver the highest performing wearable devices.
- You lead and collaborate with global teams.
- You are responsible for the end-to-end design, from concept to verification, leading the full life cycle from concept to launch of the firmware architecture in Dexcom products.
- You propose and lead technology exploration initiatives, working closely with your teams, including proof of concepts.
- You support and resolve product complaints.
- You deliver technology and product development cycles on time, on budget, and with high-quality results.
- You coordinate and communicate with senior leaders on product roadmap, feature sets, partnership opportunities, key performance indicators, financial results, and other management priorities.
- You successfully transferred New Product Development programs into high-volume electronics production at contract manufacturers.
What makes you successful:
- You have expertise in high-reliability firmware design, including agile development values and principles.
- You have experience in the full firmware development life cycle, including requirements, design, coding, testing, and integration of low-power systems.
- You are recognized as a thought leader in your field, having launched many consumer or medical products.
- You have previous hands-on embedded systems experience as a technical leader for fast-paced, complex product development where power management, signal processing, BLE/Wi-Fi connectivity, memory allocation, and complex algorithms are key product design elements.
- You have experience in bare-metal C programming for embedded ARM microcontrollers, including the use of Make and GCC cross compilers.
- You have transformed SW/FW organizations to implement CI/CD pipeline frameworks, scrum mastership, branching strategies, and utilization of the latest developmental tools.
- You effectively communicate technical topics with a wide range of audiences, including leadership and advanced technology teams.
- You are highly collaborative and have a desire to reach across the organization to understand stakeholder needs and how to meet them.
- You have designed organizations and have a track record of recruiting exceptional talent and building high-performing teams, with proven abilities to manage, mentor, and motivate employees. You can work in a deadline-driven and fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects.
- You show exemplary leadership qualities in motivating teams to a culture where core values matter. You have built a culture of listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable.
- You have expertise in object-oriented programming with Java, C#, or Python.
- You possess broad technical proficiency, functional expertise, business acumen, and people leadership skills.
- You have deep technical expertise in electromechanical products, preferably in the medical device industry and biosensor applications.
- You can interpret complex data and provide clear recommendations, describing the risks and benefits of different approaches, and managing and mitigating those risk/benefit tradeoffs. You maintain quality laboratory standards and record keeping.
Education and Experience:
- Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in technical discipline with 13+ years of industry experience
- 5-8 years of previous people management experience
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