Embedded Project Manager

Job Function, Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead technology initiatives for strategizing and owning Industry 4.0 and related business practices, with
• relevant experience in Industry 4.0 & IIoT
• Overall responsibility of end-to-end project execution & delivery within planned schedule for multiple projects simultaneously
• Project requirements understanding, dissemination into individual tasks, effort estimation and planning
• Upholding customer satisfaction through value-based delivery
• Interface with global customers for project status accounting, task planning and delivery
• Defining and managing daily tasks and responsibilities of the project team, with an ability to lead 10-15 team members spread across multiple projects
• Stakeholder management from cross-functional teams within organization and external vendors/partners
• Escalation management from customers or internal stakeholders
• Understand business pipeline through sales and senior management, define hiring plans and conduct interviews
• Manage compliance to Quality Management System (QMS), and participate in project audits by SEPG group
• Responsible for conducting annual appraisals, providing regular developmental feedback to team, and identifying skill gaps to plan internal and external training
• Foster an open work-culture to instill confidence in the team, and encourage diversity of perspectives and sharing of knowledge

Area of expertise:

• Expertise in industrial projects with manufacturing applications, controls, and analytics, with good exposure to PLC, DCS and SCADA systems
• Expertise in working with industrial interfaces and protocols such as MODBUS, PROFIBUS, FIELDBUS, OPC UA
• Overall project management & delivery
• Risk management (risk identification, tracking, mitigation and contingency planning)
• Customer communication (US and Europe based customers)
• Strategic account management and long-term growth
• Embedded firmware architecture development for Industrial IoT (IIoT) domain
• Expertise in various processor and microcontroller architecture
• Expertise in bare metal, RTOS and device driver development
• Expertise in Linux Kernel programming, device driver development, multi-threaded applications
• Expertise in different distributions such as Yocto and openWRT
• Expertise in C and OOPS Programming languages, data structure, and design patterns in C++
• Expertise in bootloader (U-Boot) development for embedded systems
• Experience in wireless technologies such as Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, BLE, Threads, WiFi, and Sub-GHz
• Experience with debugging tools such as KGDB, GDB, Valgrind, and static code analyzers
• Experience in networking protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, MQTT, HTTP, GSM, GPRS
• Experience in serial communication interfaces such as RS-232, RS-485, I2C, SPI, MODBUS and CAN
• Experience in Embedded GUI Development, particularly with QT or similar frameworks, is advantageous

Skills:

• Programming Languages: C, C++, and Python
• Hands-on BSP, board bring up development experience
• Linux kernel development with low-level driver experience, BSP, the board bring-up SDK development knowledge
• Write high-quality, efficient, extensible, and maintainable code in a fast-paced Agile environment
• Interfaces: PCIE, USB, I2C, SPI, MDIO, MQTT, Rest API
• Wireless: Z Wave/ZigBee/Matter/Thread/BLE/WIFI
• Hardware schematics review and PCB debugging
• Microcontroller/Microprocessors: 16/32-bit Debugging applications using debugging tools.
• Debugging Hardware and low-level firmware using schematics
• Debugging tools: like logic analyzer, digital oscilloscope, JTAG, KGDB, JDB
• Expert in USB, AUDIO/VIDEO, RF protocols
• Cloud communication: AWS or Azure or customer cloud
• Build system: Yocto, OpenWRT, Makefiles etc
• Embedded GUI Development – QT or similar
• Expertise in at least one technology - Wi-Fi, audio/video, display, camera
• Experienced with SCRUM-based project management tools such as JIRA, DOORS, Agile
• Embedded GUI Development – QT or similar
• Working experience in security algorithms encryption and decryption
• Debugging Hardware and low-level firmware using schematics
• Debugging tools: like logic analyzer, digital oscilloscope
• Complete SDLC life cycle understanding
• Scrum master certifications in team management