Software Engineering Director

Job Description:

We are the leader in hardware emulation-acceleration technologies and products. We are looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Director who wants to expand their scope and grow their career in our platform software group.
Our massive parallel processor based emulation-acceleration system platform is the most advanced industry-leading configurable scalable system, generation after generation, used in labs and datacenters.

Job Requirements:

Key responsibilities:

Lead, Manage, and grow a small experienced team in San Jose to deliver a rich set of features including market dominating performance for the next generation custom parallel processor based emulation system.
Support the existing high performance development culture and lead the engineering team to achieve the impossible.
Participate in a team-based, collaborative development process that starts with in-depth high level design and ends with code review.
Establish key quality metrics and processes such as unit and system tests even within short development cycles.
Implement Automation Scripts, Web pages, etc. to collect analytics on such quality metrics.
Summarize for presentation to executive management and customers.
Support and expand on our in-house agile development process by refining project plans, tracking to completion, and ensuring successful delivery.
Understand and optimize the overall system aspects of performance
Drive for bug closure. If necessary, triage the failure even if it may be a cross functional problem

Desired Skills and Experience

Must have previous experience as a S/W people manager with demonstrated leadership and management skills, with a track record of successful products in the market.
Must have project management experience with traditional waterfall based tools and at least some agile tools, Kanban, or Jira.
Must have expertise in scripting using Perl, Python, or Ruby, and be comfortable using wiki/SharePoint etc.
Ability to understand complex, unique, hardware system architectures and analyze/optimize tradeoffs in design.
Demonstrated strong background in some of the following technology areas such as Algorithms, Distributed or Parallel computing, Electronic Design Automation, Synthesis, Place and Route, etc.
Proven skills in multi-threaded, multi-process and distributed systems, and performance optimization of C/C++ code in a Linux programming environment.
Independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criterion. Strong problem solving and analytical skills. Ability to expose, resolve, and/or lead the resolution of problems urgently.
A team player. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including documentation.
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineer or computer science with minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.

Kris Young
Account Director
BHO Tech
San Jose, San Francisco CA
Phone: (866) 816-1615 x 823
kris@bhotech.com
www.bhotech.com