Global Lead, Development Tools Engineering

Nordic Semi; Trondheim; On-site; NOK 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working hours

Medical insurance

Family-friendly policies

Job summary

Nordic Semi seeks a senior leader to head the Development Tools engineering organization, spanning software and hardware tools across multiple sites. You will set technical direction, deliver a cohesive tools roadmap, and coordinate with product managers to translate priorities into executable plans.

You will drive AI-enabled development and ensure scalable engineering practices, while building the Kraków site and aligning with teams in Norway to operate as one organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent within computer science, software engineering, electronics engineering or a related field.
• Extensive experience in software or embedded engineering, with several years of leadership, including leading managers.
• Proven experience leading multi-site engineering organizations, ideally across countries.
• Experience delivering developer tools, IDEs, SDKs or developer platforms used by external customers.
• Software architecture for desktop, mobile, web and command-line applications.
• Modern engineering practice: CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps, release management and secure development.
• Working knowledge of embedded development workflows: toolchains, build systems, debuggers, programmers and IDEs (e.g. VS Code).
• Understanding of AI-assisted development tools, LLM integrations and MCP.
• Understanding of hardware product development, including PCB design, manufacturing and test.

Responsibilities

• Leading the Development Tools engineering organization across software and hardware tools, and sitting on the leadership team for Marketing & Developer Experience.
• Owning engineering delivery of the tools roadmap and turning product priorities into an executable plan.
• Setting the technical direction and architecture for Nordic's tools portfolio across platforms.
• Driving the adoption of AI in the tools portfolio and in engineering practice.
• Building up Kraków engineering site and integrating with Norway teams for a true multi-site organization.
• Coordinating with business units, SDK and firmware teams so tools support new products at launch.
• Defining and reporting engineering KPIs such as release predictability, quality, defect trends and developer satisfaction.

Skills

Leadership

Multi-site leadership

Software architecture

CI/CD

Embedded engineering

AI in dev tools

Hardware development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (CS/SE/EE)

Tools

VS Code

Job description

Nordic Semi seeks a senior leader to head the Development Tools engineering organization, spanning software and hardware tools across multiple sites. You will set technical direction, deliver a cohesive tools roadmap, and coordinate with product managers to translate priorities into executable plans.

You will drive AI-enabled development and ensure scalable engineering practices, while building the Kraków site and aligning with teams in Norway to operate as one organization.