Director Of Software Engineering

Director, Software Engineering – System, Test & Portfolio
Location: India, Chennai (On-site, No Hybrid)
Company: Advantest Test Solutions (ATS)
Position Overview
We are seeking a Site Leader for Software Engineering to lead Software + Hardware System Integration, Product Development, Program Engineering, Handler, Test Engineering, and Portfolio Engineering for semiconductor test platforms supporting SLT, Burn-In, HPC, and ATE.
The role leads multiple India teams (40+) responsible for equipment-control software, material handling integration, test engineering, factory interfaces, production data, and shared software capabilities.
This position is expected to be highly technical and hands-on with software and hardware, with approximately 30% of time spent directly on coding, debugging, and solving complex technical issues across the semiconductor test ecosystem.
The position will have dual reporting. BU/functional reports to VP of Software & Technology and Organizational will report directly India Management.
Key Responsibilities
• Translate engineering strategy into engineering plans, technical milestones, resource plans, and delivery schedules.
• Lead software managers, technical leads, developers, and test engineers across Thermal, System Integration, Handler, Test, and Portfolio Engineering.
• Drive execution across multiple products and customer programs and ensure teams deliver committed milestones.
• Align software development, integration, validation, and release schedules with SW Product Management and Hardware TPMs.
• Lead software integration across testers, handlers, thermal systems, device interfaces, PLCs, firmware, and equipment-control systems.
• Lead development of communication interfaces for material handling, factory automation, and factory management systems.
• Lead GEM/SECS, EAC/EAP, lot of processing, alarms, availability reporting, equipment telemetry, and production data capabilities.
• Lead automated validation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, regression, endurance testing, system qualification, and production readiness.
• Improve throughput, reliability, availability, recovery, and downtime through system performance analysis.
• Drive reuse and standardization of APIs, SDKs, messaging, data models, logging, diagnostics, and common software components.
• Ensure customer requirements are implemented as scalable, configurable product capabilities.
• Track milestones, dependencies, risks, quality, integration of readiness, and release criteria across the portfolio.
• Improve software development, testing, validation, and release processes.
• Coordinate execution with Product Management, Program Management, Business Development, Hardware, Firmware, QA, Production, Applications, and Product Support.
• Lead adoption of AI-assisted software development, testing, diagnostics, and documentation.
• Conduct architecture, design, integration, and release-readiness reviews.
• Present technical and program-readiness reviews to customers and internal leadership.
• Support customer technical discussions, system bring-up, escalations, and production deployments.
• Conduct performance reviews, set goals, mentor leaders, and support succession planning.