Senior Manager - Software Design Wi-Fi

Overview

Lead a team developing software for next-generation Wi-Fi connectivity solutions, combining hands-on technical work with people leadership and delivery ownership.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end delivery of critical Wi-Fi software components, ensuring they meet performance, reliability, quality and schedule commitments.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of embedded software engineers.
• Contribute technically through design reviews, architecture discussions, debugging, and hands-on development.
• Drive Agile development practices, ensuring effective backlog management, sprint planning, and delivery execution while fulfilling product owner responsibilities.
• Collaborate with architects, hardware designers, QA, and applications engineering to ensure seamless integration and successful product delivery.
• Promote and continuously improve software development best practices and team culture, fostering craftsmanship, accountability, and long-term sustainability in the way we build software.
• Ensure rigor in software quality by driving unit testing, functional testing, continuous integration, and verification practices across the team.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 14+ years of professional software development experience, with 5+ years in engineering management roles.
• Proven experience developing embedded software, firmware, or systems software for complex products.
• Strong hands-on coding skills in C and debugging expertise at the hardware/software boundary.
• Strong exposure to CI/CD pipelines, integration testing, and performance benchmarking frameworks.
• Experience leading teams delivering production-quality embedded software in complex systems.
• Knowledge of Wi-Fi protocol stacks and wireless communication standards.
• Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum development practices and product ownership.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to guide both technical direction and team growth.
• Demonstrated success hiring, coaching, and developing engineers while building high-performing teams.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with hardware accelerators, SoC architectures, and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with Linux driver development.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad.
• Flexible work policy.