Team Manager

Seeing Machines is searching for a technical manager with a deep embedded software background.
As manager, you will build, coach and support a team of talented embedded software engineers, delivering automotive computer vision systems that save lives.
Our close-knit team fosters an environment of product innovation, quality software, and rapid product iteration across a wide range of products, hardware and software.

**In this role, you will**:

- Providing direction and guidance to a team of skilled embedded software engineers
- Leading by example, including where necessary getting involved directly in team activities and tasks
- Creating and maintaining a rapport with the team, promoting team engagement
- Supporting project managers and project technical leads in the delivery of projects with strict timing, quality and budgetary targets
- Upholding engineering quality and automotive process standards
- Driving efficiency within the team, and unblocking obstacles
- Recruitment
- Creating opportunities for skills growth, learning, and career development for team members
- Establishing and supervising strategic partnerships with engineering service delivery partners
- Balancing engineering resources across multiple projects
- Setting and tracking team and individual KPIs
- Performance management
- Code reviews, design reviews
- Pairing with team members who need technical guidance
- Providing support in customer meetings
- Occasional travel to customer sites overseas, and other SM Engineering design centres (e.g. Melbourne)
- Maturing and championing the company's Quality Management process suite
- Cost estimation and work-breakdown analysis in support of business pursuit activities
- Identifying and overseeing Continuous Improvement activities
- Informing the company's software development strategy and best practices
- Promoting a positive and enthusiastic team and company culture

About you
We value the breadth and depth of experience that our people bring to their work. We are seeking people with a good mix of technical competency and personal capability. Specifically, we are looking for people with:

- Tertiary qualifications in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Engineering
- Management experience, including leading a high performing team of Software Engineers
- Technical background in high performance embedded software engineering within a product development context
- Advanced level C++ and C
- Hands-on experience with software optimization and hardware acceleration (e.g. DSP, GPU, NPU)
- FPGA experience
- Familiarity with embedded computer architectures (e.g. cache controllers, memory controllers & busses, interrupt controllers, kernel configuration, RAM disks)
- Experience using laboratory hardware and operating advanced measurement tools e.g. oscilloscopes, logic analysers, multimeters, data loggers etc.
- Strong understanding of, and track record of implementing, software engineering best practices
- Experience and appreciation of formal engineering processes, e.g. CMMI, ASPICE, or similar industry standard
- Ability to build effective relationships and influence outcomes across an organisation
- Ability to champion ideas across an organization
- Demonstrated ability to set priorities and meet deadlines
- Ability to operate and plan in a rapidly changing environment
- Excellent technical, written, verbal communication skills

Why Seeing Machines
- Work with inspiring people - we are proud to have a team of experts in their field, we invent, innovate, and collaborate
- Work flexibly - we encourage our people to manage their work and personal lives to achieve a balanced outcome
- With offices spanning the world, Seeing Machines serves a growing market in the UK, Europe, Africa, North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific
- We are social with staff events held throughout the year, from BBQs, morning teas, to special events and other celebrations
- We are focused on employee support
- we understand the importance of our collective wellbeing You will have access to our Employee Assistance Program any time you require it
- Access to global benefits and reward platform - offering discounts across large range of retailers
- We are lucky enough to have fresh fruit supplied daily
- If you work in Canberra, you'll have access to free parking.

About Seeing Machines
We are a global company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Australia, and an industry leader in vision-based monitoring technology that enable machines to see, understand and assist people.
Seeing Machines develops Driver and Operator Monitoring System (DMS) technology to enhance safety for Automotive, Commercial Fleet, Off-road and Aviation.
Seeing Machines' technology portfolio of AI algorithms, embedded processing and optics, power products that need to deliver reliable understanding of vehicle operators, in real-time.
The technology spans the critical measurement of where a driver or operator is looking, through to the classifica