Engineering Manager - Electronics Background
Semiconductor System R&d has an immediate opening for an Engineering Manager. The Group Manager position is a high visibility role requiring daily interaction with NI Engineering Teams and Executive Management. This is a multi-functional role dealing with diverse engineering needs, including the ability to gather requirements, generate specification documents, and interface across teams to design, implement, and enhance NI products.
Responsibilities
- Motivate and engage a multi-disciplinary development team (technicians, mechanical, electrical, and software engineers)
- Manage projects from conception to release through the use of the System Development Process phases to drive project features, staffing needs, and schedule while maintaining aggressive timelines
- Accountable for plan development and program execution to meet scope, cost, and timeline goals while maintaining long-term quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction
- Drive efforts to mitigate risks and constant ability to drive tradeoff decisions within and across projects
- Cross-manage project dependencies by collaborating with other managers and organizations
- Determine resource needs, secure internal and external resources and adjust resource assignments as needed throughout the project
- Identify talent gaps and recommend investment changes to build a more effective team
- Ensure efficient and timely collaboration with R&D teams, manufacturing, hardware services, compliance, test engineering, and other supporting teams to accomplish the release of your product/system
- Effectively communicate program status, tradeoffs, and risks to collaborators, including senior executives
- Communicate clearly and be able to provide appropriate messaging depending on the audience
- Drive cross organizational resolution of customer quality issues
- Run group and program audit meetings (technical, schedule, status reporting, etc.)
- Directly manage team members by coaching them, identifying opportunities to drive velocity, and removing roadblocks while maintaining priority on their development and career growth
- Be effective at resolving issues and identifying when concern is appropriate
- Drive a team to deeply understand the customer/industry need in order to anticipate problems and think through multiple perspectives for the best overall solution
- Mediate and influence technical discussions and key business trade-offs to facilitate decisions
- Able to extend decision-making skills to business, technical, and customer tradeoffs and communicate clear recommendations
- Able to self-manage and prioritize your own time to make the best day-to-day decisions for yourself, your team, and your projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math)
- 8+ years of combined professional experience (including project and schedule management)
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and an ability to influence others without authority
- Experience working with various geographies and functions
- Work effectively in an ambiguous environment
- Communication skills, analytical attitude, and effective problem-solving skills
- Dedicated and motivated individual who can volunteer for new challenges without being asked
- Proficient in multitasking and maintaining attention to detail while effectively managing multiple projects and teams
- Effectively prioritize projects and tasks
Preferred Qualifications
- Background designing products (systems, software, and/or hardware)
- 4+ years of experience managing a team of engineers or in a leadership role
- Familiar with Semiconductor design validation tests and workflows
- Background in complex system development
- Hands-on experience using NI software and hardware products
- Previous R&D experience
Benefits & Culture
Our culture is inclusive and values diversity. We offer competitive benefits plans, a variety of medical insurance options, an Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups, recognition programs, flexible time off plans, and paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave.
Accessibility Assistance or Accommodation
We provide accessibility assistance or accommodation for qualified applicants requiring it.
Job Info
- Job Identification 26006627
- Job Function Development Engineering
- Posting Date 06/22/2026, 03:42 AM
- Job Schedule Full time
- Location No 12, Tower B, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560029, IN