Sr. Director of Technology, FBI-Certified Biometric Sensors
Overview
Own hardware product and technology development for compact, low-power fingerprint sensors at scale. Lead hardware, firmware, software integration, and device engineering across global teams to deliver cohesive product systems and customer solutions. Drive architecture, stage-gate development, and manufacturing readiness while guiding root-cause investigations and quality improvements. This role blends hands-on leadership with hands-on engineering to align embedded, application, and SDK level software with the hardware roadmap.
What You'll Do10
- 1Lead the hardware product development team and direct the associated software engineering execution across Asia
- 2Translate customer and market requirements into integrated product solutions ensuring hardware firmware and application software deliver a consistent customer experience
- 3Manage stage-gate product development including checklists reviews and stakeholder alignment
- 4Drive product architecture redesign prototyping benchmarking and performance improvements
- 5Own design for manufacturing and design for test implementation during product development releasing designs that are manufacturable and testable
- 6Lead root-cause analysis and technical investigations involving fingerprint sensor technology
- 7Identify test and qualify new electronic and hardware components
- 8Manage technical support for existing hardware products and contribute to new technology proposals
- 9Build and sustain a close working partnership with our engineering and manufacturing organization in South Korea
- 10Lead the hardware product development team and direct the associated software requirements
Requirements10
- 1Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or related field
- 210–15 years of hands-on engineering experience including prior team leadership
- 3Experience managing multidisciplinary teams software firmware hardware with alignment of hardware and software delivery schedules
- 4Strong hardware background including SoCs ARM processors PCBs FPGAs CPLDs and embedded systems
- 5DFM/DFT discipline in volume production tooling test fixture development pilot builds and hand-off
- 6Experience with USB Parallel MIPI and SPI communications
- 7Proficiency with Linux Windows Android and iOS environments
- 8PCB design tools such as OrCAD PADS or Eagle
- 9Expert-level C/C++ skills and some Verilog HDL knowledge
- 10Skilled with lab test equipment including multimeters oscilloscopes and logic analyzers
Salary Insight
$175 - $210k per year
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