Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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Job description

About the Team:
VIZIO's Technology - Software and Services team is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to join their growing team. A successful candidate will contribute domain expertise and make high-impact individual contributions related to Embedded Engineering development and optimization. This position will have roughly 8 direct reports between contractors and FTE. We pride ourselves on being a collaborative team here at Vizio and to accomplish this, we are in office 5 days a week in our Dallas, TX office.

What You Will Do:
Work closely with cross-functional teams - product, hardware, software and cloud engineering in the design and development of new innovative TV products

Empowering the engineers and dev leads in your teams to succeed by identifying how to measure success, and mentor them on how to achieve those goals

Experience in HAL layer, notification system, IPC, multi-processing, multi-threading, debugging/core dump analysis.

Work on teams that are highly proficient in C, C+/14.

Contribute to the success of your team working with Shell-Script, Makefile, git, bug tracking tools.

Proactive in foreseeing issues and resolve it before it happens

Ensure teams have clear priorities

Participate in architecture discussions and planning

Providing technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members

Communicate technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

About You:
Bachelor's degree in computer science (or a related program) or equivalent work experience

You have experience developing software development managers/technical leads

4+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager role or above.

You have 10+ years of Application development on embedded devices.

Experience working with SoC vendors, ODMs and prototyping iteratively based on new technology

Extensive experience with embedded Linux and system-on-a-chip (SoC) development

Ability to multi-task and drive parallel projects with tight deadlines

Proven strong track record of shipping high-quality hardware and software at scale

You are a self-starter that thrives in a fast-paced, yet at times, ambiguous environment

You are a hard-working team player, with a "no task is too small" attitude

You are a creative problem-solver who digs into root causes analytically, instead of relying on intuition

You have excellent written and verbal communication skills

About VIZIO:
We are Beautifully Simple.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers. Our loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we redefine what it means to be smart.

VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency, outside recruiter or firm without a mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes will be considered our property and will be processed accordingly.

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