Director Technology / Engineering Residential Gateways, Embedded Platforms

Att; India; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Att is seeking a Director of Technology/Engineering to spearhead strategy and delivery for residential gateway platforms, including embedded firmware and Linux-based wireless stack. You will own the technical roadmap, guide architecture governance, and lead global teams across embedded systems, networking, and platform engineering.

You will partner with product, architecture, and operations to translate business priorities into scalable technology outcomes, ensuring carrier-grade reliability and

Qualifications

• 15+ years of technology, embedded software, platform engineering, or telecom product development.
• 5+ years in engineering leadership roles overseeing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong expertise in broadband, gateways, embedded Linux, and carrier-grade software.
• Proven ability to translate business priorities into scalable technology outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term technology roadmap for residential gateway platforms.
• Lead, mentor, and develop managers, architects, and senior engineers across embedded domains.
• Own architectural direction for OpenWrt/prplOS and Linux networking platforms.
• Oversee end-to-end engineering delivery from requirements to production support.
• Provide strategic oversight for Wi‑Fi 6E/7 and related networking capabilities.
• Establish standards for code quality, automation, testing, and reliability.
• Drive CI/CD, release governance, and defect management across the org.
• Collaborate with product, security, operations, and external partners.
• Manage vendor relationships with silicon/software partners to influence roadmaps.

Skills

Embedded Linux

C/C++

OpenWrt/prplOS

SoC integration

Wi‑Fi architecture

Networking

Linux wireless stack

Device management

TR-181 / USP/TR-369

Leadership

Architecture

Strategy & roadmap

Job description

Job Title: Director Technology / Engineering Residential Gateways, Embedded Platforms & Wireless

We are looking for a Director of Technology / Engineering to lead the strategy, architecture, execution, and delivery of next-generation residential gateway platforms. This role will own the technical roadmap across embedded firmware, prplOS/OpenWrt-based platforms, Linux wireless, broadband device management, networking, containerization, and carrier-grade software reliability.

The Director will partner closely with product, architecture, platform engineering, quality, operations, vendors, and senior leadership to translate business priorities into scalable technology outcomes. The ideal candidate combines deep embedded systems expertise with strong engineering leadership, program execution discipline, stakeholder management, and the ability to build high-performing global teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Technology Strategy & Roadmap: Define and drive the long-term technology roadmap for residential gateway software platforms, ensuring alignment with business priorities, product strategy, customer commitments, and evolving broadband technology standards.
• Engineering Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop managers, architects, technical leads, and senior engineers across embedded firmware, wireless, networking, platform, QA, and automation functions.
• Architecture Governance: Own architectural direction for scalable, hardware-agnostic gateway platforms leveraging prplOS/OpenWrt, SoC abstraction, Linux networking, device management, containerized services, and lifecycle management.
• Execution & Delivery: Oversee end-to-end engineering delivery from requirements and architecture through development, validation, release, deployment, and production support.
• Wireless & Broadband Platform Leadership: Provide strategic oversight for Wi-Fi 6E/Wi-Fi 7, Linux wireless stack, hostapd, wpa_supplicant, iw, TR-181, USP/TR-369, L2/L3 networking, routing, bridging, and packet forwarding capabilities.
• Quality, Reliability & Performance: Establish engineering standards for code quality, test automation, unit testing, performance profiling, memory optimization, stability, observability, and carrier-grade reliability.
• Operational Excellence: Drive continuous improvement across engineering processes, CI/CD practices, release governance, defect management, incident response, technical debt reduction, and productivity metrics.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with product, program management, architecture, security, operations, customer-facing teams, and external partners to ensure technology solutions are scalable, secure, cost-effective, and commercially viable.
• Vendor & Ecosystem Management: Manage strategic relationships with silicon vendors, software partners, open-source communities, and technology suppliers to influence roadmaps and resolve complex integration challenges.
• People, Budget & Resource Planning: Own workforce planning, hiring, capability development, budget inputs, resource allocation, and succession planning for the technology organization.

Must-Have Requirements

• Experience: 15+ years of technology, embedded software, platform engineering, or telecom/networking product development experience, including 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• Domain Expertise: Strong background in broadband, telecom, networking, residential gateways, embedded Linux, connected devices, or carrier-grade platform software.
• Leadership Scale: Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams, managers, architects, and senior technical contributors across complex product portfolios.
• Embedded Platform Knowledge: Strong understanding of C/C++, embedded Linux, OpenWrt/prplOS, firmware architecture, SoC integration, hardware abstraction, and platform lifecycle management.
• Networking & Wireless: Deep knowledge of L2/L3 networking concepts, routing, bridging, Wi-Fi architecture, Linux wireless stack, and broadband connectivity standards.
• Device Management: Strong working knowledge of TR-181, USP/TR-369, remote device management, telemetry, provisioning, and carrier operations requirements.
• Delivery Leadership: Demonstrated success delivering complex technology programs across architecture, development, testing, release, and production support.
• Engineering Excellence: Experience establishing best practices for SDLC, automation, CI/CD, test strategy, code quality, observability, performance profiling, security, and reliability.