Manager, Software Engineering – Embedded Driver Development
Posted
Summary
People-management role leading the team that builds embedded drivers (bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, Android) for Cirrus Logic's audio and haptics chips used in smartphones, wearables, gaming controllers, and automotive systems. Focus on execution, quality, talent development, and expanding into new product areas.
For over four decades, Cirrus Logic has been propelled by the top engineers in mixed-signal processing. Our rockstar team thrives on solving complex challenges with innovative end-user solutions for the world's top consumer brands. Cirrus Logic is also known for its award-winning culture, which was built on a foundation of inclusion and fairness, meaningful community engagement, and delivering enjoyable employee experiences at every turn. But we couldn’t do it without our extraordinary workforce – and that’s where you come in. Join our team and help us continue to make Cirrus Logic an exceptional place to grow your career!
Cirrus Logic is seeking a Manager of Software Engineering to lead the team developing embedded drivers for Cirrus Logic products and supporting the integration of Cirrus software solutions into customer platforms. This team enables advanced audio and haptics experiences across smartphones, smart watches, gaming controllers, automotive systems, and adjacent growth areas.
This role is ideal for a technically grounded software leader who can support strong execution today while scaling into new growth areas. You will lead a team developing bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and Android driver solutions for Cirrus technologies including audio DSP codecs, audio DSP amplifiers, and haptic DSP amplifiers. You will work closely with customer engineering teams, Cirrus field engineers, and internal partners across DSP, firmware, system test, user-space tools, hardware applications, program management, and marketing.
The ideal candidate brings strong embedded software experience, clear communication, disciplined execution, and a passion for building teams, systems, and practices that improve quality, predictability, and business alignment.
Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Execution
- Ensure on-time execution with high outgoing quality across customer programs and internal deliverables
- Partner with marketing and program management to continuously align team priorities, staffing, and resource assignments to business objectives
- Manage capacity planning, recruiting, onboarding, and talent development
- Build skill redundancy and succession plans to support long-term team resilience
- Manage execution hot spots, risks, and priority conflicts across programs
- Ensure team practices align with open-source software, security, quality, and AI standards and policies
- Increase internal visibility into team activities, load, delivery status, and execution risks
- Drive continuous improvement across technology, process, talent, quality, planning, and execution practices
- Develop practical mechanisms – such as dashboards, checklists, templates, or periodic reviews – to increase visibility into team activity, delivery status, quality trends, and improvement opportunities
- Expand the team’s focus into adjacent growth areas by building internal knowledge, developing talent, and identifying ownership opportunities
- Develop scalable practices and identify approaches that may be useful to share with adjacent teams
- Evaluate and influence software strategy for new products and new product areas
- Recruit and develop high-potential embedded developers who can contribute across current and emerging product spaces
- Stay engaged with team-adjacent activities to identify technical gaps, ownership opportunities, and future team scope
- Mentor and develop technical talent and leadership successors to enable broader team coverage and future scope expansion
Quality, Compliance & Continuous Improvement
Strategic Growth
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 15+ years of experience in embedded, systems-level, or low-level software development
- 5+ years of technical people-management experience
- Experience leading software teams responsible for customer-facing embedded software deliveries
- Strong understanding of embedded driver development, hardware/software integration, and platform bring-up
- Experience with bare-metal, RTOS, Linux, Android, Zephyr, or similar embedded software environments
- Demonstrated ability to manage priorities, capacity, execution risks, and resource assignments across multiple programs
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to align engineering teams, program managers, marketing, field teams, and customer-facing stakeholders
- Experience driving quality, planning discipline, and continuous improvement across software teams
- Ability to develop talent, build skill redundancy, and support succession planning
Preferred Skills and Qualifications
- Experience with audio, haptics, DSP-based systems, codecs, amplifiers, or related mixed-signal products
- Experience supporting smartphone, wearable, gaming, automotive, PC, or consumer electronics platforms
- Familiarity with open-source software compliance, security practices, and software quality systems
- Experience developing dashboards, release checklists, planning views, or other mechanisms for improving execution visibility
- Experience with automated unit, integration, or system-level testing for embedded software
- Experience partnering with marketing or business teams to align engineering work with product strategy
- Experience expanding team scope into new technical areas or building capability in adjacent product spaces
- Familiarity with Windows driver or application development, or PC software integration workflows
Export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit candidates who are nationals of certain embargoed countries from working in this position without Cirrus Logic first obtaining an export license. Candidates for this role must be able to access technical data without a requirement for an export license. We are unable to sponsor or obtain export licenses for this role.
Cirrus Logic strives to select the best qualified applicant for any opening. Different approaches, ideas and points of view are both valued and respected. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable law.