Embedded Software Manager

Crane Payment Innovations Inc.; Malvern (Chester County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Crane Payment Innovations Inc. in Malvern, PA is seeking an experienced Manager of Embedded Software Development to lead the software and firmware that power CPI’s intelligent products.

You will manage distributed engineering teams, translate product requirements into executable embedded plans, and provide technical leadership across hardware interfaces, real-time systems, and verification to ensure reliable product lifecycles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years embedded software or firmware development with leadership experience.
• Strong C/C++ in resource-constrained environments.
• Experience with microcontrollers and embedded hardware architectures.
• Real-time systems, including interrupt-driven design and RTOS.
• Hardware/software interfaces, device drivers, and common protocols.
• Ability to read schematics and collaborate with hardware engineers.
• Debugging complex HW/SW interactions with appropriate tools.
• Software architecture, version control, automated builds, code review, testing.
• Experience delivering embedded software through full product lifecycle.
• Leadership and coaching of software engineers.
• Experience working with distributed engineering teams.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead distributed embedded software team in US and Germany.
• Translate product requirements into actionable embedded development plans.
• Provide technical leadership for architecture, design, implementation, integration and verification.
• Ensure collaboration across embedded software, hardware, systems engineering, test, validation, manufacturing and product management.
• Manage development across new products, enhancements, customer requirements and sustaining engineering.
• Establish engineering practices for quality, configuration management, code review, testing and release.
• Address real-time behavior, hardware constraints, reliability and lifecycle requirements.
• Coach and develop engineers with clear performance expectations.
• Support recruitment and workforce planning for embedded team.
• Drive improvements in tools, automation, build and test infrastructure.
• Represent Embedded Software Development in reviews, planning and cross-functional decisions.

Skills

C/C++

Embedded systems

Real-time systems

Leadership

Communication

Hardware interfacing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Tools

CAN

USB

Ethernet

UART

SPI

I²C

JTAG/SWD

Job description

Embedded Software Manager

Location PA, Malvern

Department Information Technology

Employment Type Full Time

Have you ever used a self-checkout, played the slots at a casino, grabbed a drink from a vending machine, or paid to park your car? If so, you may have done so with the aid of technology from Crane Payment Innovations (CPI).

We make technology that powers everyday transactions, helping keep the world of payments moving through payment validation devices and business management software.

Headquartered in Malvern, PA, CPI is supported by: >2,500 global associates, 7 manufacturing sites, 12 corporate offices and 43 service branches.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

As Manager, Embedded Software Development, you will lead embedded software engineering teams responsible for the software and firmware at the heart of CPI's intelligent products.

You will combinepeopleleadership and delivery accountability with a strong technical understanding of embedded systems. The role requires the ability to work effectively across software, electronics, mechanical systems, test and product engineering, where software behavior is closely coupled to physical hardware and real-time product operation.

Initially, you will lead a distributed embedded software team supporting the note validator product platform, with engineers located in Malvern, Pennsylvania and Buxtehude, Germany. The scope of the role may expand as CPI evolves its embedded software organization.

The Manager, Embedded Software Development will have a direct impact on the Engineering organization, responsible for:

• Leading a geographically distributed team of embedded software engineers in the United States and Germany.
• Translating product and system requirements into executable embedded software development plans and delivery commitments.
• Providing technical leadership and direction for embedded software architecture, design, implementation,integrationand verification.
• Ensuring effective collaboration between embedded software, electronic hardware, systems engineering, test and validation, manufacturing and product management.
• Managing development across new products, product enhancements, customerrequirementsand sustaining engineering.
• Establishing and maintaining appropriate engineering practices for embedded software quality, configuration management, code review,testingand release.
• Ensuring software designs appropriately address real-time behavior, hardware constraints, reliability, maintainability and product lifecycle requirements.
• Developing engineers through coaching, technical mentoring, careerdevelopmentand clear performance expectations.
• Supporting recruitment, workforceplanningand development of the embedded software engineering capability.
• Managing engineering priorities, resource constraints, technicalrisksand cross-functional dependencies.
• Driving continuous improvement in embedded development tools, automation, build and test infrastructure, and engineering processes.
• Representing Embedded Software Development in engineering reviews, product planning and cross-functional decision-making.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

You will bring substantial experience developing embedded software for commercial products together with demonstrated engineering leadership experience. This is fundamentally an embedded engineering leadership role. A strong understanding of electronic hardware, microprocessors, real-timesystemsand hardware/software interaction is essential. You do not need to be the team's primary developer, but you must have sufficient technical depth to challenge designs, understand failures and risks, and provide meaningful technical direction.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Typically8 or more years of professional embedded software or firmware development experience, including technical orpeopleleadership responsibility.
• Strong professional experience developing software for embedded products.
• Strong knowledge of C and/or C++ in resource-constrained embedded environments.
• Experience with microcontrollers,microprocessorsand embedded hardware architectures.
• Practical understanding of real-time systems, including interrupt-driven designs, concurrency, timingconstraintsand RTOS-based software.
• Strong understanding of hardware/software interfaces, including device drivers and common embedded communication interfaces and protocols.
• Ability to read electronic schematics and work effectively with electronic hardware engineers.
• Experience troubleshooting complex hardware/software interactions using appropriate embedded debugging and laboratory tools.
• Understanding ofembedded software architecture, modular design, source control, configuration management, automated builds, codereviewand software testing.
• Experience delivering embedded software through the complete commercial product lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to lead,coachand develop software engineers.
• Experience working with geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

• Experience developing embedded software for complex electromechanical products.
• Experience with RTOS-based systems and embedded Linux.
• Experience with ARM or other modern microcontroller/microprocessor architectures.
• Experience with embedded communications such as CAN, USB, Ethernet, UART, SPI or I²C.
• Experience with hardware debugging tools such as JTAG/SWD debuggers,oscilloscopesand logic analyzers.