[Hiring] Director of Engineering @GenLogs

Role Description

As Director of Engineering for GenLogs’ Integrated Sensor team, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for building, deploying, and scaling the hardware and software systems at the heart of our sensing network. This is a cross-disciplinary people leadership role spanning hardware, embedded/edge software, and cloud/software platforms.

• Lead and develop a team of engineers while setting technical direction, establishing strong engineering practices, and ensuring the organization can deliver reliable products at scale.
• Work closely with Product, Deployment, Data Science, and company leadership to translate product strategy and real-world operational requirements into an effective engineering roadmap.
• Create the structure, processes, and technical foundation needed to move quickly without sacrificing reliability, quality, or long-term scalability.
• Ideal for an engineering leader who enjoys operating at the intersection of people, technology, and physical-world systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience, with significant experience leading engineering teams and organizations.
• 5+ years of people management experience, including experience managing senior engineers and/or engineering managers.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams across two or more of the following: hardware, embedded systems, edge computing, backend software, cloud infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Experience building and operating products that combine physical hardware with software systems.
• Proven experience scaling engineering teams, processes, and technical infrastructure as a company or product grows.
• Strong technical understanding of modern software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and production systems.
• Experience establishing engineering standards, development processes, testing practices, and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound technical and organizational decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Strong track record of recruiting, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering talent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• High effectiveness and communication working in a remote and distributed team.
• English proficiency is required.

Requirements

• Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team spanning hardware, embedded/edge software, and software engineering.
• Build a high-performing engineering culture centered on ownership, technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Establish clear expectations, goals, career development paths, and performance standards for engineers and engineering leaders.
• Recruit and retain exceptional engineering talent as the organization scales.
• Develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders, creating leverage through effective delegation and leadership.
• Foster strong collaboration across engineering disciplines and ensure teams operate with shared goals and accountability.
• Define and evolve the technical strategy and architecture for the Integrated Sensor product line across hardware, edge, and cloud systems.
• Guide architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs across the full product lifecycle.
• Ensure engineering investments balance near-term product delivery with long-term reliability, scalability, maintainability, and cost.
• Establish engineering standards and practices that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality.
• Identify technical risks and dependencies early and drive them to resolution.
• Partner with senior engineers to evaluate new technologies, tools, and approaches that can improve the product and engineering organization.
• Partner closely with Product and Deployment to translate business and customer requirements into executable engineering plans.
• Own engineering execution against product and technology roadmaps, ensuring teams are aligned on priorities and delivery expectations.
• Create effective planning and development processes that provide visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Remove organizational and technical blockers and ensure teams maintain a strong bias toward action.
• Ensure hardware and software development are coordinated effectively across design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
• Establish mechanisms for learning from field deployments and incorporating operational feedback into product and engineering decisions.
• Ensure the Integrated Sensor platform is designed for reliability in demanding, real-world field environments.
• Drive improvements in system availability, performance, observability, security, and operational resilience.
• Establish rigorous testing and validation practices across hardware, embedded software, and cloud systems.
• Partner with Deployment and Operations to improve installation, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management of deployed systems.
• Develop processes for diagnosing and resolving complex production and field issues with urgency and ownership.
• Ensure engineering teams build systems that can scale from current deployments to a national-level sensing network.
• Serve as the senior engineering partner to Product leadership for the Integrated Sensor product line.
• Work closely with Deployment to ensure engineering solutions are practical, supportable, and optimized for real-world deployment.
• Partner with Data Science and Data Engineering teams to ensure sensor systems produce accurate, reliable, and usable data.
• Communicate technical strategy, roadmap, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to company leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships across the organization and create alignment around technical and business priorities.

Benefits

• Opportunity to build technology that operates at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds.
• Direct impact on the technology, people, and systems required to scale the sensing network.
• Opportunity to build an engineering organization capable of supporting one of the most ambitious sensing and intelligence platforms in freight.