SW Embedded R&D Director

At Essence Group, we create technology that matters, solutions that bring peace of mind and help people live safer, more independent lives. For over 30 years, our cloud-based security and healthcare innovations have been deployed in over 80 million devices worldwide.

We build complex, real-time IoT systems that combine hardware, embedded software, cloud, data, and mobile, at massive scale.

We are looking for an experienced SW Embedded R&D Director with a strong technical background to lead our embedded group and join our R&D leadership team at our offices in Herzliya.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop team leaders and groups of 20+ embedded software engineers and system architects
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement

Strategy & Execution

• Collaborate with senior management to define and execute the embedded software development strategy
• Drive execution across multiple parallel projects and full product lifecycles

Software Engineering Excellence

• Own architecture, design, and development of complex real-time embedded systems
• Ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and security across products
• Define and maintain high-quality development, testing, and validation processes

Qualifications

• B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• 15+ years of hands-on experience in Embedded / Real-Time software development
• 5+ years leading R&D teams, including 2+ years managing team leaders
• Proven experience managing large, multidisciplinary teams (20+ engineers) in HW / SW / Systems environments
• Strong technical expertise in embedded software architecture and design (low & high level) across the full product lifecycle
• Experience leading technical design reviews, debugging complex system-level issues, and mentoring senior engineers
• Hands-on experience with hardware integration, board bring-up, and close HW/SW collaboration, as well as application-level software integrations
• Demonstrated ability to define and execute software development strategy in a medium-sized company environment
• Excellent leadership, communication, and mentoring skills; coaching-oriented manager

If you are driven by technological challenge, system architecture, and leading large engineering groups, you’ll feel at home here.