Engineering Manager — Embedded Firmware & Systems

Scientific Search; Twinsburg (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Scientific Search in Twinsburg, OH, seeks a manager to lead embedded software and firmware teams responsible for instrumentation products. This role blends technical depth with people leadership to drive architecture, requirements, and lifecycle success.

You will mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and coordinate across hardware, software, and systems teams to deliver reliable products. Strong communication and hands-on leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• A BS in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Substantial experience contributing to the development of complex embedded software, firmware, or closely related systems.
• Demonstrated success leading and developing engineers. This evidence may come from formal management, technical or project leadership, mentoring, or a combination of these experiences.
• Ability to work effectively across engineering disciplines and communicate decisions, risks, and

Responsibilities

• Guide embedded software and firmware architecture for new products and major product revisions.
• Translate product and system needs into clear software requirements, interfaces, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead or facilitate technical trade studies and design reviews involving performance, timing, communications, memory, power, security, testability, and maintainability.
• Recruit, retain, coach, and develop embedded software and firmware engineers.
• Establish development and verification practices appropriate to the product risk, including design and code review, configuration management, reproducible builds, progressive integration, regression testing, release control, and structured defect investigation.
• Balance new-product development with sustaining work, defect correction, infrastructure improvement, and reduction of technical debt.

Skills

Embedded software

Technical leadership

Architecture decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

People management

Education

BS in computer engineering / computer science / electrical engineering or equivalent

Job description

Scientific Search in Twinsburg, OH, seeks a manager to lead embedded software and firmware teams responsible for instrumentation products. This role blends technical depth with people leadership to drive architecture, requirements, and lifecycle success.

You will mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and coordinate across hardware, software, and systems teams to deliver reliable products. Strong communication and hands-on leadership are essential.