Director/Senior Director, Electronic & Software Systems (80% Onsite)

Job Type Full-time Description

The Director/Senior Director of Electronic and Software Systems is responsible for how EBR’s electronics, firmware, and software work together as a single system. 

This role ensures that our electrical and software designs are clear, scalable, and well-integrated, both for current products and future generations. The Director/Senior Director leads engineering managers and senior technical staff, sets system architecture direction, and works closely with Hardware, Program Management, Product Support, and Quality/Regulatory. 

The role balances delivering today’s products with building a strong technical foundation for the future.

ESSENTIAL AND OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

System Architecture and Technical Strategy

• Define and steward system-level architecture across electrical engineering, firmware, and software domains.
• Establish architectural principles, standards, and guardrails aligned with product and technology strategy.
• Lead cross-program electrical and software architectural consistency and technical decision-making.
• Resolve cross-domain technical trade-offs in collaboration with mechanical engineering and hardware development.

Platform Roadmap and Modernization

• Define and maintain a roadmap for electronic and software platforms.
• Identify and prioritize technical debt across EE and software domains.
• Develop modernization strategies that balance innovation, regulatory requirements, risk, and delivery constraints.
• Define platform reuse strategies and technical standards across product lines.
• Forecast future technical capabilities required to support product strategy.

Organizational Leadership and Talent Development

• Provide leadership for electrical engineering, firmware, and software teams, including managers and senior technical leaders.
• Develop technical leaders and architects within each discipline.
• Scale engineering capability through delegation, architectural empowerment, and modern engineering practices.
• Maintain periodic technical engagement to inform leadership decisions without becoming a bottleneck to execution.

Design Control and QMSR Alignment

• Own EE and software-related DDF/DHF remediation to align with lean QMSR expectations under ISO 13485.
• Ensure compliant but lean traceability between system architecture decisions, design inputs, risks, and verification/validation artifacts.
• Partner with Hardware Development and Quality/Regulatory to modernize SW design control practices while minimizing unnecessary documentation burden.
• Support risk management and design control activities in regulated product development.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Hardware Development to define system partitioning and interface boundaries.
• Collaborate with Program Management to ensure architectural risks and trade-offs are visible in program plans and by key cross-functional stakeholders.
• Engage with Product Support Engineering to ensure field learnings inform future system architecture.
• Support VP R&D in architectural resolution when system-level decisions impact product strategy.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Directly manages engineering managers and senior technical leaders within electrical engineering, firmware, and software.
• Indirectly leads multidisciplinary engineering teams through architectural leadership and technical governance.
• Responsible for performance management, talent development, and organizational scaling within respective domain.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field required.
• Minimum of 12 years of experience in electrical engineering, software engineering, firmware, or systems engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, including managers and senior technical staff.
• Experience defining and governing system architecture in complex hardware–software products.
• Experience working in regulated product development environments (medical device experience preferred)

Equivalent combinations of education and professional experience will be considered.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:·   

• Deep understanding of system architecture across electrical, firmware, and software domains.
• Ability to balance long-term technical strategy with near-term execution reali