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Senior Engineering Manager, Embedded Software

Do you enjoy leading global engineering teams in developing embedded software solutions that power advanced inspection technologies and deliver exceptional customer value?

Would you like to drive the technical strategy, innovation, and execution of next-generation embedded platforms while developing high-performing teams across a global engineering organization?

Join Our Team

Waygate Technologies is a global leader in non-destructive testing solutions. Our Remote Visual Inspection product portfolio is used worldwide across aviation, energy, manufacturing, and industrial markets to inspect critical assets and infrastructure.

We are seeking an experienced software engineering leader to lead the embedded software organization responsible for our video borescope product portfolio. This role combines technical leadership, people development, product execution, and strategic planning to deliver industry leading inspection solutions to customers around the world..

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As Senior Engineering Manager, Embedded Software, you will lead a global team responsible for the embedded software, firmware, and device software that powers our video borescope platforms.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Leading a global software engineering team developing embedded software and firmware for advanced inspection systems.
• Driving the execution of software development programs while balancing schedule, quality, cost, and customer requirements.
• Partnering with product management, systems engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, quality, manufacturing, and service teams to bring products from concept through launch and sustainment.
• Defining technical roadmaps and investment priorities for future generations of embedded software platforms.
• Building a culture of technical excellence, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Developing engineering talent through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
• Supporting customer engagements and strategic development partnerships.
• Driving the adoption of modern embedded software development practices, automation, cybersecurity, and AI-enabled technologies where they create customer value.
• Managing engineering resources, staffing plans, budgets, and software capitalization activities.
• Collaborating with globally distributed engineering teams and external development partners.

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Have significant experience leading embedded software development teams delivering commercial hardware products.
• Have a strong technical foundation in embedded software, firmware development, embedded architecture, or related engineering disciplines.
• Have experience delivering products that tightly integrate software, electronics, optics, sensors, and mechanical systems.
• Have experience operating at both strategic and technical levels, helping teams solve complex engineering challenges while guiding long-term product direction.
• Have experience working within structured product development environments that utilize requirements, design reviews, verification, validation, and release processes.
• Have strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Have experience managing engineering roadmaps, budgets, and organizational growth.
• Have a passion for developing high-performing engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience developing embedded systems using C or C++.
• Have experience working with Embedded Linux, RTOS environments, device drivers, hardware interfaces, and board bring-up.
• Have experience developing or supporting camera systems, imaging products, optics, computer vision, image processing, or measurement technologies.
• Have experience leading the development of industrial, aerospace, medical device, robotics, automation, or instrumentation products.
• Have experience working with connected devices and cybersecurity for embedded products.
• Have experience with AI, machine learning, or edge analytics deployed on embedded platforms.
• Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline; an advanced degree is preferred.

Why This Role Is Different

This is an embedded product software leadership position, not a web application, enterprise software, or SaaS role. The successful candidate will lead teams developing device-side software for sophisticated hardware products that operate in demanding industrial environments. Success requires a strong appreciation for the interaction between software, electronics, optics, mechanics, and the customer experience delivered through the finished product

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work during the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are most productive.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities

Comprehensive private medical care options

Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

Tailored financial programs

Additional elected or voluntary benefits

This position requires current work authorization in the country of employment. The employer is unable to provide or continue work authorization sponsorship for this role.

Candidates for this role (office-based/ hybrid/ remote) must be located in or near the locations displayed above. The pay range/scale displayed above represents Baker Hughes' good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum for this position at the time of this posting and applies to the possible locations for this position. Baker Hughes will issue a non-bias competitive offer; the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hires, full-time salaries in some U.S. locations, not including equity or benefits. Where an applicant will ultimately fall within the pay range/scale depends on a variety of factors, including, for example, geographic work location, skillset, qualifications, internal pay alignment, level of experience, and demonstrated performance over time. Please keep in mind that the range stated above is the full base salary range for the role and does not include other forms of compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the pay range for this position during the hiring process.

You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.