Engineering Manager - Hardware and Firmware

Engineering Manager - Hardware and Firmware

Ovyl is a product development firm working on an exciting range of consumer electronics, lifestyle products, and medical devices. We're currently expanding our team in Nashville, Tennessee, and are looking for an Engineering Manager to oversee our Firmware and Hardware teams.

About You

You're a seasoned professional in the realm of embedded systems, understanding the complexities and nuances that come with it. To you, every component, connection, and piece of code is an opportunity—to innovate, to optimize, and to perfect. Your keen sense for technological trends keeps you ahead of the curve, always aware of the latest capabilities and potential integrations. You believe that collaboration, clear processes, and smart planning are the keys to project success. Your cross-discipline knowledge and years of experience managing people enable you to coach and professionally develop less experienced members of your team. You have a proven track record of leading a team to successfully meet project deadlines, improving team performance, and delivering high-quality results.

To you, making things, solving problems, and leading people is the most fun you could have at work, and that’s why you are reading this now.

In this role, you will:

1. Lead the Hardware and Firmware engineers to develop technical product solutions, ensuring functional requirements are appropriately distributed across disciplines.
2. Act as a player/coach, spending about half of your time managing direct reports, and the other half rolling up your sleeves and working on client projects. Project work will primarily be at the technical lead level, but if needed, you are capable of jumping in and writing firmware or doing custom PCB design.
3. Foster product design through the prototype, EVT, DVT, and PVT stages.
4. Document and articulate multiple complex execution strategies, emphasizing tradeoffs concerning timeline, complexity, risk, and cost—even to those without a technical background.
5. Stay abreast of technology trends, including liaising with semiconductor firms and partners, to position our products at the forefront of capabilities and user experience.
6. Identify risky technical challenges, designing robust test plans that specify component selection and validation procedures.
7. Support your direct reports in their professional development through regular one-on-ones, bi-annual performance reviews, and ongoing guidance and feedback over the course of projects.
8. Partner with Ovyl’s product strategists to understand product-market fit and functional demands, converting these into relevant technical specifications.
9. Maintain an ongoing collaboration with strategists to keep requirements current throughout project phases.
10. Work closely with the project manager and other team members to chart work plans, spotlighting key dependencies and the optimal sequence for task execution.

Requirements

1. Expert at leading technical teams through Product Design and Development where the solutions evolved through iterative prototype testing.
2. 5+ years of experience managing a team or department with direct reports.
3. Feel at home working directly with Mechanical Engineers, Industrial Designers, Electrical Engineers, Software Developers, etc.
4. Experience developing physical products that have manufactured components (vs. only software).
5. Current or previous titles may include Head/Director/Manager of Hardware or Firmware Engineering, Technical Lead, Team Lead, Lead Engineer, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Engineering Manager, etc.
6. Must live in Nashville, TN or be willing to relocate.

Compensation, benefits, and perks

1. Work-Life Balance: Ovyl pays competitively and respects work-life balance. You can work from home up to 3 days/week, be home for dinner, take a meaningful vacation off the grid, and work to live instead of living to work.
2. Health Insurance: Ovyl covers 100% of your health insurance premium. You pay the difference for a spouse and/or dependents.
3. Dental, Vision, HSA: Ovyl offers these plans but does not contribute to their premiums.
4. 401k + matching: Ovyl contributes 3% no matter what; by default, you contribute an additional 6% (you may change this).
5. Flexible schedules & WFH: Ovyl supplies a new laptop to use for your work and you’ll get to enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work environment.
6. Maker Stipend: We want to employ people that love to make stuff, so we’ll give you a virtual credit card with $600/year to spend on any personal project.
7. Learning Stipend: We want to employ curious, constant-learners, so we’ll give you a virtual credit card with $200/year to spend on any personal learning.
8. Access to 3D printers for personal use: If the printers aren’t needed for a project, have at ‘em.
9. Stocked fridge and snacks: We’ll stay stocked up on healthy snacks, carbonated water, and beer.
10. Company events: We take a day off work at least once a quarter to have fun, hang out, and get to know each other.
11. Join Nashville’s best product dev consultancy: You’ll get to learn new skills working alongside a great team on a wide variety of products.

Please Note: Our entire team is located here in Nashville, TN. We are seeking applicants living or willing to relocate here - however, we offer a hybrid work environment, with most employees working from home 1-2 days per week.

The pay range for this role is:

165,000 - 190,000 USD per year (Ovyl Workshop)