Global Director, Software Engineering - Test Automation

Teradyne; Deer Park (IL); On-site; USD 235,000 - 375,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Retirement savings plans

Life and disability insurance

Paid vacation & holidays

Tuition assistance programs

Job summary

Teradyne in Deer Park, IL seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead the Power Test Division’s global software org, directing software for PTD platforms, test program development environments, instrument control, and customer-facing tools. You will unify teams across multiple sites, improve delivery predictability, and drive platform reuse.

You will mentor managers, shape architecture with partners, build QA, and align priorities with product and hardware leaders while advancing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years leading software organizations and experience leading managers.
• Proven success leading globally distributed teams across multiple time zones and cultures.
• Track record of delivering complex software on committed schedules in a hardware-software product environment, including software shipped as part of an instrument, system, or capital product.
• Depth in modern software engineering practices, including architecture, code quality, automated testing, continuous integration, and release management.
• Demonstrated ability to work as a peer to hardware and systems engineering leaders and engage credibly with customers.
• Strong people leadership, including hiring, manager development, mentorship, and creating an environment where engineers can grow and succeed.
• Technical credibility, sound judgment, a bias for execution, and a direct, transparent, and collaborative leadership style.

Responsibilities

• Lead a globally distributed software organization through four managers, including staffing plans, skills development, career paths, retention, and the balance of employee and contract resources.
• Develop and execute the PTD software roadmap, approve program sizing, staffing plans, and schedule baselines, and remain accountable for delivery quality and commitments.
• Collaborate with Product Architecture and engineering partners to define software architecture direction, evaluate feasibility early, surface risk continuously, and resolve design or schedule issues.
• Build a strong, independent Software QA function and improve engineering quality through modern architecture, code quality, automated testing, continuous integration, release management, and reduced technical debt.
• Partner with customers and cross-functional leaders on software capability, roadmap priorities, escalations, platform strategy, and engineering practices.
• Mentor managers and engineers while building a unified organization with shared processes, tooling, career development, and cross-segment collaboration.
• Sustain measurable AI-assisted development adoption through effective tooling, practices, guardrails, practitioner communities, and demonstrated productivity gains.
• Ensure inherited program commitments are delivered, software delivery becomes more predictable, and phase-gate performance and defect escape rates improve.

Skills

Leadership

Global collaboration

Software architecture

Automated testing

CI/CD

Release management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Teradyne in Deer Park, IL seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead the Power Test Division’s global software org, directing software for PTD platforms, test program development environments, instrument control, and customer-facing tools. You will unify teams across multiple sites, improve delivery predictability, and drive platform reuse.

You will mentor managers, shape architecture with partners, build QA, and align priorities with product and hardware leaders while advancing