Director, Embedded Core & Architecture R&D

Driven by the passion to improve quality of people’s lives, WSA continues to grow as a market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively. We are looking for an experienced embedded software leader to head our global Embedded Core & Architecture function within R&D. In this role, you will own the end-to-end architecture and delivery of the Hearing Aid Embedded Platform Software. This role carries broad leadership scope and requires extensive travel across our global sites. The position can be located in Denmark, Lynge or Germany, Erlangen. What you will do

• Lead the development of the embedded core, including RTOS, HAL, MCU abstraction, drivers, common services, secure boot infrastructure, memory and filesystem, and the interrupt and power management model
• Build and mentor a global embedded software engineering organization of 30+ people across Erlangen, Hyderabad, and Lynge
• Establish and champion industry-leading engineering practices, including lightweight, high-efficiency processes, structured requirement and architecture management, and rigorous code quality, safety, and security standards
• Define and implement cost-efficient resource strategies, including team structure, outsourcing balance, and platform reuse to maximize scalability
• Set the technical direction and long-term roadmap for embedded software platforms, aligning it with the broader product roadmap strategy

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