Director of Engineering, TorcOS

The role

The Director of Engineering will lead the TorcOS organization to deliver foundational embedded software platforms for autonomous driving systems. This role involves driving execution strategy, organizational effectiveness, and engineering delivery across domains like embedded Linux, middleware, and AUTOSAR.

What you will do

• Develop business plans and operational priorities to meet organizational goals.
• Facilitate processes for the delivery of scalable and high-quality embedded software platforms.
• Collaborate with management and engineering teams to achieve objectives.
• Drive organizational accountability through metrics, engineering processes, and delivery standards.
• Understand the technical domain of the team's embedded platform and middleware solutions.
• Provide career development, coaching, and mentoring to managers and engineers.
• Handle selection and performance management of the teams.
• Provide continuous performance feedback and organizational development.
• Perform compensation analysis with peer managers and People Operations.
• Support organizational scalability through process improvements and engineering best practices.

Required qualifications

• Ability to be a strategic partner to the organization and plan for future needs.
• Strong engineering background within embedded software systems and platform development environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading managers and engineering organizations responsible for highly complex software platforms.
• Experience driving engineering processes, organizational standards, and scalable delivery frameworks across distributed teams.
• Ability to manage a team of managers and professionals.
• Strong experience with embedded Linux systems, middleware frameworks, or low-level platform software.
• Experience working with safety-critical or highly reliable software systems.
• Experience driving cross-functional execution across software, hardware, systems, integration, and validation organizations.
• Ability to promote consistent standards including test automation, observability, platform reliability, and performance metrics.
• Experience supporting incident response, root-cause investigations, security initiatives, and compliance activities.
• Strong communication and organizational leadership skills in fast-paced engineering environments.

Nice to have

• Experience within the autonomous vehicle industry.
• Experience within the Automotive Industry.
• Experience leading embedded Linux or middleware platform organizations.
• Experience with device drivers, BSPs, or hardware abstraction layers.
• Experience with robotic communication frameworks or distributed software systems.
• Experience with AUTOSAR base software and microcontroller platforms.
• Experience with safety-critical system designs and standards.
• Experience with system bring-up, bootloaders, flashing tools, or platform integration activities.
• Experience supporting large-scale sensor data systems, logging, or recording frameworks.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including a bonus component and stock options.
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees.
• 401K plan with a 6% employer match.
• Flexibility in schedule.
• Generous paid vacation available immediately after start date.
• AD+D and Life Insurance.

About the company

Torc is a leader in autonomous driving that is now part of the Daimler family. The company focuses on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.