Director of R&D

About Tondo Smart

Tondo Smart is an Israeli technology company developing advanced solutions for managing, protecting, and optimizing critical infrastructure.

Our solutions combine IoT, hardware, cloud platforms, artificial intelligence, and real-time data analytics, serving three core business areas: Energy Management, defense, and civil protection.

Tondo Smart operates in Israel and internationally, with hundreds of thousands of deployed devices delivering smart infrastructure solutions for governments, municipalities, and critical infrastructure operators.

We are looking for an experienced Director of R&D to lead our multidisciplinary engineering organization.

This is a key leadership role responsible for managing an R&D organization of approximately 12 engineers, leading cross-functional development teams, and delivering innovative products that combine software, hardware, embedded systems, cloud technologies, and IoT.

The Director of R&D will work closely with executive management, Product Management, and Operations to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality products from requirements through product release.

✔ Lead and manage the company's R&D organization.

✔ Manage multidisciplinary engineering teams across Software, Hardware, Embedded/Firmware, Cloud, DevOps, Mobile, and QA.

✔ Drive end-to-end product development from requirements through product release.

✔ Lead integration across hardware, software, firmware, and cloud technologies.

✔ Continuously improve engineering processes, development methodologies, and quality standards.

✔ Mentor and develop engineering managers and technical teams.

✔ Ensure high-quality execution, timely delivery, and continuous improvement.

✔ 10+ years of experience in technology development.

✔ 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams.

✔ Proven experience managing at least two engineering teams, including at least one multidisciplinary team combining software, hardware, and IoT development.

✔ Proven experience developing IoT products or products that combine hardware and software.

✔ Strong technical understanding of software, hardware, embedded systems, cloud technologies, and system architecture.

✔ Proven experience leading product development from requirements through product release.

✔ Excellent leadership, organizational, planning, and people management skills.

✔ Fluent English, both written and spoken.

Nice to Have

• Experience managing engineering managers or team leads.
• Experience working with Agile development methodologies.
• Experience in Energy, Smart Infrastructure, Defense, or Critical Infrastructure.
• Familiarity with communication protocols, particularly MQTT.
• Project management experience.