Director of SW Development

An established, global technology corporation that develops advanced hardware-software platforms and complex processing systems driven by artificial intelligence (AI) for high-tech edge industries.

Traded publicly on the stock exchange, the enterprise combines cutting-edge silicon architectures with sophisticated software frameworks to power intelligent devices worldwide.

Operating with a significant global footprint and hundreds of professionals, the company maintains a premier engineering powerhouse in Israel.

The company is located in Center District (within modern facilities situated directly on the train line) and operates on a hybrid model with flexibility for two days of remote work.

Position Overview-

• Director / Senior Director of R&D driving strategic engineering leadership over a multi-disciplinary software division of 30–40 engineers, managing a structured hierarchy of four Engineering Team Leads and one R&D Group Manager.
• Reporting directly to the global COO, operating as a high-level executive leader with zero hands-on coding requirements, purely focused on organizational scaling, cross-functional execution, and delivery ownership.
• Leading a highly complex engineering organization tasked with architecting internal developer tooling, software enablement suites, and compiler-level software chains.
• Steering the technical roadmap for software systems that interface directly with physical silicon layers, custom microprocessors, and system-on-chip (SoC) architectures.
• Collaborating closely with global executive branches, hardware architecture boards, and product strategy units to synchronize chip-to-software launch lifecycles.
• Engineering Ecosystem- C/C++, Embedded Systems Programming, Silicon Tooling, Python, Java, System-on-Chip (SoC) Architectures, Low-Level Software Frameworks, and Global Delivery Lines.

Requirements

• Proven track record in senior executive R&D leadership roles (e.g., Director, Senior Director, or Head of Engineering), steering organizational strategy within top-tier engineering environments (Mandatory).
• Extensive experience managing large-scale engineering organizations of 40+ engineers through structured mid-level management tiers (Mandatory).
• Prior successful tenure operating specifically as an R&D Group Manager or higher, demonstrating complete ownership over budgets, people roadmaps, and delivery lines (Mandatory).
• 10 years of deep technical domain experience working with Embedded Systems, hardware-software co-design, microprocessors, or close-to-metal environments (Mandatory).
• Strong technical background rooted in low-level systems programming, with historical hands-on mastery in C and C++ architectures (Mandatory).
• Proven career track record operating within global, multi-national technology corporations, collaborating across cross-geographical development sites (Mandatory).
• Exceptional communication, executive presence, and organizational leadership capabilities, with a proven ability to lead complex engineering branches in fast-paced hardware-centric markets.

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