Technical Project Manager (Embedded)

Engineering Bangalore/Hyderabad8–10 yrs experience
Job Title / Summary: Technical Project Manager (Embedded Systems/Edge AI)
Experience: 8+ Years
Job Location: Bangalore/Hyderabad

Role & Responsibilities / What you’ll do:
We are looking for a Technical Project Manager – Embedded Systems with at least 8 years of experience in embedded software engineering and/or project management.

The ideal candidate will have a strong technical foundation in any one or more of these technical domains: low-level BSP development, Embedded Linux, RTOS, device drivers, hardware/software integration and/or AI model/library optimization on DSP/NPU/GPUs combined with the ability to drive projects across multiple engineering teams.

Technical Project Management
 Own end-to-end execution of embedded software projects from requirements through delivery.
 Define project scope, milestones, schedules, deliverables, and resource requirements.
 Track project progress against schedule, quality, scope, and technical objectives.
 Identify technical risks, dependencies, and project bottlenecks and drive mitigation plans.
 Conduct regular project reviews and provide status reports to internal and external stakeholders.
 Coordinate multiple engineering teams across BSP, drivers, middleware, application software, testing, and hardware.
 Manage priorities and resolve cross-functional dependencies. Customer & Stakeholder Management
 Act as a technical point of contact for customers and internal stakeholders.

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 Understand customer requirements and translate them into actionable engineering tasks.
 Participate in technical discussions, design reviews, project kick-offs, and customer meetings.
 Communicate project status, risks, issues, and mitigation plans clearly.
 Manage expectations around scope, schedule, technical constraints, and deliverables.

Engineering Process
 Drive Agile/Scrum practices within the engineering team.
 Conduct sprint planning, tracking, reviews, and retrospectives.
 Ensure proper estimation and task breakdown for engineering activities.
 Track defects, technical debt, and quality metrics.
 Establish and monitor development, integration, validation, and release milestones.
 Promote engineering best practices, documentation, code reviews, and automated testing.

Required skills / Whom we are looking for:
 6+ years of experience in technical/project coordination or project management within embedded engineering is preferred.
 Experience managing engineering schedules, milestones, dependencies, and risks.
 Ability to communicate effectively with both engineering teams and customers.
 Strong estimation and planning skills.
 Experience working with Jira, Confluence, Git, or similar engineering/project management tools.
 Ability to manage multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously.
 Strong ownership and accountability.
 Ability to identify technical risks early.
 Good leadership and stakeholder-management skills.
 Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
 Good understanding of embedded system architecture and hardware/software interfaces.
 Exposure to Edge AI, robotics, automotive, industrial, IoT, or consumer embedded systems is an advantage

Nice-to-haves
 Experience with BSP development and board bring-up.
 Understanding of boot flow, bootloaders, Device Tree, kernel configuration, and peripheral initialization.
 AI/ML model development/optimization for Edge applications on DSP/NPU/GPU
 Experience with CI/CD for embedded software.
 Familiarity with Git, GitLab/GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, and automated testing.

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