Engineering Manager

At IAR, our Engineering organization has experienced significant growth in recent years, and we're now embarking on the next chapter of our journey. By uniting our Engineering department in Sweden and Cambridge into a single cohesive department, we aim to create an even stronger and more dynamic organization.

This integration allows us to build teams that are strategically organized to tackle the challenges of tomorrow and equipped with the skills needed to drive innovation and deliver exceptional results. As part of this transformation, we are forming additional specialized teams, creating exciting opportunities for new Engineering Managers to join us and lead these teams to success.

Country: Sweden

Site: Uppsala

Report to: Peter Johansson, VP of Engineering

Job type: Permanent, Fulltime, Hybrid, Open to flexibility

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager, you will drive the organization's goals by empowering and engaging with the technical experts in your team, while supporting the success of a group of experienced software engineers by clearly communicating expectations, initiatives, and objectives.

You will contribute to the evolution of solutions targeting the embedded domain as part of the Engineering division. We are striving for better ways of working as well as advancing the solutions engineering model. You will accomplish this by collaborating with stakeholders across various domains, both technical and organizational. Your responsibilities will include budget preparations, full employment journey, individual coaching, and your teams' delivery of value to stakeholders while working towards company goals.

In Engineering we work together with development of products that our customers use in their development of embedded systems. We provide customers with IDEs, debuggers, probes for connectivity to hardware devices for programming and debugging, compiles, linkers, static analysis tools, tools for state machine modelling, and plugins for VS Code and Eclipse. Additionally, we provide security solutions to protect our customers' IP through the lifecycle of their products.

Openings in three Engineering Teams

The restructuring of our engineering department now creates openings for three new Engineering Managers to join IAR The qualifications we are looking for are similar for all three roles, as the overall responsibility of an Engineering Manager is consistent regardless of which team you lead. The size of each team is in between 10-15 people, and all three managers will work mainly from our Uppsala office.

What differs is the product area you will be part of, as each team focuses on its own specific domain. Together with Product owners, you will be involved in leading the work within your team. The technical and strategic focus areas will vary depending on the team you belong to. No matter which team you are part of, there will be a lot of cooperation together with other Engineering Managers as well.

Debugger devices, Probes and LMS team

This team focuses on developing and maintaining debugger technology on desktop for customer developers as well as for our probes, and adding support for hardware devices. Hardware device support in the debugger is enabling customers to connect to the right hardware in a seamless and efficient manner. This also includes work with VHDL design and software that runs on the hardware probes as well as on a PC. In addition to this, the team is responsible for our license management system, which is a product encompassing both Windows and Linux-based solutions, as well as a cloud service. The team primarily works with C and C++ in both embedded and PC environments, using modern technologies to create high-quality and scalable solutions.

Product Governance team

This international team, with members in both Sweden and Cambridge, is responsible for some of IAR's strategic functions within system architecture, product ownership, project management and product documentation. The team plays a central role in supporting the entire Engineering organization by delivering system level expertise and need to interact across, and beyond, Engineering. When applying for this role, your experience from project management, or work as a product owner in addition to leading people is more important than the technical aspects of embedded components and PC software development (see success factors for the roles below). The team works on developing and maintaining the system architecture for our solutions, while also being responsible for product documentation and system level leadership for Engineering to deliver on their commitments. In the team's daily work they come across products and solutions developed using technologies such as C, C++, Python, Java, C#, assembler, VHDL, MFC, and Qt.

IDE team

Our IDE team develops and maintains IAR's Embedded Workbench, plugins for VSCode, and Eclipse. These are used by our customers to edit, build, debug, and analyze embedded applications. The team focuses on creating a user-friendly and efficient platform with features such as code editing, language support, and source-code-project management. The IDE team is also responsible for our VisualState product.

The work is carried out using technologies such as C++, Qt, MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes), Java and Typescript. Their goal is to deliver a stable and smooth user experience that facilitates the development process for our customers.

Qualifications

Regardless of what team you lead, we are looking for a great communicator Communication is key to success and will be your most important tool, both oral and written. You will have a lot of interaction with your team, stakeholders, customers, and partners. You should, therefore, be someone with a natural commitment to building relationships. With a positive attitude and the ability to inspire confidence, you will enable an innovative and creative atmosphere.

You will need to understand the big picture while having enough understanding of the technical details to structure your work and support the prioritization of the team.

You have previous managerial experience and a background in the software development industry. You are comfortable in your leadership role and can align a team towards common goals, working together to find solutions. Your understanding of how to work efficiently in agile processes with software development will support you in leading the experienced engineers in your team. Experience in advocating and advancing modern software engineering practices is a prerequisite for the role.

To succeed in this role, we see that you have:

• Proven leadership experience with personnel responsibility
• A general understanding of software development utilizing languages such as C and C++ (to understand what your team is doing)
• Experience from change management
• An understanding of the pros and cons with different software development methodologies
• A positive, enthusiastic, and pragmatic approach
• A desire to deliver on common goals and cooperate with other departments within Engineering to achieve this
• Full professional proficiency in spoken and written English and Swedish

We see it as a plus if you also have

• An understanding of engineering development tools, such as Jira
• Experience integrating with CI frameworks e.g., Jenkins, TeamCity
• An understanding of security and cryptography

What we offer

IAR is a multi-cultural and global business in a fast-growing industry, an organization where every co-worker's individual role is very important in the big picture. We welcome new ideas and take pride in our achievements. We offer you the opportunity to work in a curious, knowledge-sharing environment with a strong team spirit, where we will support you to grow both professionally and as an individual. We are problem-solvers and take on new challenges with excitement and energy. You will be part of a curious and solution-oriented Engineering Management Team comprising eight Engineering managers. Therefore, we place great emphasis on your personal qualities and their alignment with our values.

About IAR

IAR Systems, founded in 1983 in Uppsala, Sweden, and provides world leading software and services that accelerate developer productivity in embedded development and embedded security, enabling companies worldwide to create and secure the products of today and the innovations of tomorrow.

After 40 years in business, our home and heart is still in Uppsala where we started, but we now serve and support our customers globally from 13 offices located in almost every time zone and in key regions. Together, we strive to deliver a secure and intelligent embedded development experience.