Engineering Manager - Firmware & Board Support Packages (BSP)

Your Responsibilities

As an Engineering Manager - Firmware & Board Support Packages (BSP) for John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group located in Fargo, ND, or Urbandale, IA you will:

• Lead a team focused on the development, integration, and sustainment of Board Support Package (BSP) and low-level platform software capabilities enabling core embedded systems across Display, Comms, and Automation/Autonomy platforms. This includes ownership of Linux BSP layers, bootloader and kernel development, device drivers, hardware abstraction, and system bring-up activities across multiple hardware platforms. 
• Drive delivery of foundational software that ensures reliable hardware-software integration, enabling scalable and high-performing embedded systems.
• Ownership of platform enablement activities such as new board bring-up, silicon integration, performance tuning, power management, and hardware validation, along with ensuring upstream support and maintainability of BSP and HW/SW tight couplings. 
• Manage and develop engineering talent and provide technical guidance across the team for delivery of critical tech stack solutions.
• Plays a critical part in aligning BSP strategy with platform roadmaps, enabling reuse across high compute embedded products and supporting consistent delivery across global field seasons and hardware configurations. 

VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position

What Skills You Need

• Five or more years of R&D experience that include software as part of the solution.  
• Solid understanding of system-level architecture for embedded or edge computing platforms.
• Ability to coordinate across platform and OS-level development efforts.
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with hardware, software, and product teams. 

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience with Linux, BSP development, system integration, and low-level debugging.
• Experience with system-level software components such as connectivity stacks, logging/telemetry systems, OS services or platform diagnostics.  
• Working knowledge of development environments and tooling, including compilers, build systems, cross-compilation, and debugging tools.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex, cross-functional software solutions
• Experience managing product teams or various individual contributors. 

Education

Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar engineering or IT field is required. Others may apply.