Firmware and Embedded Engineering Manager 3

Emerson Electric Co; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Emerson Electric Co in Pune, India, is seeking an experienced engineering leader to guide a team of embedded software engineers, driving performance, growth, and high-quality execution.

You'll partner with software leadership and global teams to align priorities, hire, onboard, and manage delivery, while coaching teams in Agile/Scrum and Azure DevOps to improve efficiency.

This role emphasizes people development, cybersecurity awareness, and building an inclusive, accountable engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science from an engineering school.
• Minimum of twelve (12) years of applicable experience.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience including hiring and performance management.
• Experience leading software engineering teams across multiple projects.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and Azure DevOps, coaching backlog quality and delivery practices.
• Familiarity with secure SDLC and IEC 62443-4-1 preferred.
• Ability to build trust and lead across global, cross-functional boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of embedded software engineers.
• Own people leadership responsibilities including onboarding and performance management.
• Partner with software leadership to align staffing and priorities across projects.
• Improve team execution by coaching Scrum teams in Azure DevOps.
• Establish and improve engineering processes, Agile practices, and SDLC alignment.
• Monitor execution, surface risks, remove barriers, and drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with technical leaders on plans, schedules, and sprint execution.
• Focus on people development and high-quality results over pure capacity.

Skills

People leadership

Agile/Scrum

Azure DevOps

Embedded software

Staffing & Hiring

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical coaching

IEC 62443

Education

Bachelors in Engineering

Masters in Engineering/CS

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Description:

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of embedded software engineers, providing clear expectations, meaningful feedback, development opportunities, and support for individual growth.
• Own people leadership responsibilities including hiring, onboarding, performance management, recognition, employee development, conflict resolution, and creating an inclusive and accountable team environment.
• Partner closely with software engineering leadership, technical and feature leads, project teams, and global partners to align priorities, staffing, capacity, commitments, and resource needs across new product development and sustaining engineering.
• Improve team efficiency and execution by coaching engineers and Scrum Teams to plan, estimate, break down, own, and manage their work effectively in Azure DevOps.
• Help establish, reinforce, and continuously improve shared engineering processes, Agile/Scrum ways of working, tools, metrics, and disciplined execution of SDLA and IEC 62443-4-1 aligned practices.
• Monitor team execution and organizational health, surface risks and constraints, remove barriers, resolve conflicts and execution issues, and drive accountability and continuous improvement.
• Partner with technical leaders who own deeper technical plans, schedules, work breakdown, estimates, risks, design decisions, technical reviews, and sprint execution, clarifying project-specific responsibilities through plans and RACI as needed.
• Contribute technical perspective where beneficial while keeping the primary focus on people development, organizational effectiveness, team execution, and high‑quality results rather than carrying regular software development capacity.

Who You Are:

• You create clarity, align teams around priorities, and hold yourself and others accountable for delivering commitments
• You build trust through open communication, collaboration, and consistent follow‑through.
• You have grown your career through embedded software engineering roles and understand the challenges engineer face because you have solved many of them yourself.
• You leverage Agile, Scrum, and Azure DevOps as tools to improve execution while ensuring technical quality, sound engineering decisions, and customer outcomes.
• You combine strong engineering judgment with people leadership, helping teams deliver results while developing individual capability.
• You develop people through coaching, feedback, mentoring, and meaningful growth opportunities.
• You balance short‑term execution with long‑term capability building, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Korn Ferry Competencies: Drives Results, Ensures Accountability, Collaborates, Instills Trust, Strategic Mindset, Cultivates Innovation, Communicates Effectively, Builds Effective Teams.

For This Role, You Will Need:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or Science from an engineering school required.
• Minimum of twelve (12) years of applicable experience
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management, conflict resolution, employee development, hiring, and building effective engineering teams.
• Experience leading software engineering teams and improving execution, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across multiple projects or priorities.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum software development and Azure DevOps, including coaching teams on backlog quality, planning, estimation, work ownership, capacity, metrics, and delivery practices.
• Experience managing priorities, staffing, workload, organizational risks, and resource constraints while partnering effectively with project and technical leaders.
• Background in embedded software, firmware, software test, or test automation, with sufficient technical understanding to coach engineers and partner credibly with technical leaders.
• Experience with software development lifecycle processes and tools, including requirements management, traceability, reviews, configuration management, continuous integration, and quality practices.
• Experience with secure software development lifecycle practices; familiarity with IEC 62443-4-1 or a similar product cybersecurity standard is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust, resolve issues, communicate technical and organizational decisions clearly, and lead effectively across global, cross‑functional, and reporting boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:

Were building the next generation of Liquid Analysis products around a highly visible program with significant market potential. Its real embedded engineering across software, electronics, sensors, communications, automation, cybersecurity, and test. Were also growing the software team around it, so people joining now can influence not only the products, but architecture, automation, engineering practices, AI, and how the team works.

Our Culture & Commitment to You:

WHY EMERSON

Our Commitment to Our People

At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.

We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award‑winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.

At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.

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ABOUT EMERSON

Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software. Through our deep domain expertise and legacy of flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability.

With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety.

We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries. Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson. Join our team – let’s go!