Sr Manager, OS Engineering

About the Team

Come help us build the next generation of smart TVs! We're building a new platform from the ground up to take user experience to the next level for millions of users. You will be joining the team that builds and maintains the core infrastructure for developing user interfaces used across the company. Your work will have a large, direct impact on customer experience.

What You Will Do

• Manages and develops geo-distributed teams, growing team's competencies and performance against company targets.
• Lead a team of amazing software and firmware engineers to deliver software/firmware that provides incredible performance and reliability
• Define technical strategy with and through your team, including both for firmware development as well as automated performance and reliability testing
• Foster a culture of delivery and quality that enables you to grow your team members' skills and careers
• Collaborate with other senior leaders across product, operations, software and hardware engineering, and design to define and deliver innovative solutions
• Coding, Debugging, Bug fixing and so on that is required to release a software package.
• Collaborate with QA and 3rd party partners to deliver a project on time.
• Research and implement a functional requirement using up to date technology and skills.
• Influences others to accept practices and approaches.
• Drive recruiting efforts and growth/ budget planning
• Design the software architecture to support the requirements.
• Review the software design and implementations.
• Maintain the code clean, and modular for cross-platform architecture.

About You

• Bachelor's degree in computer science (or a related program) or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years of management experience
• You have 15+ years of Application development on embedded devices.
• Highly proficient in C, C++11/14. Experience in Shell-Script, Makefile, git, bug tracking tools.
• Experience in Device driver/kernel-modules/u-boot/board-bring up/filesystem/memory management/SELinux, toolchain/makefile/cmake/build environment set-ups, dockers containerization, snapcraft.
• Experience defining, developing, or contributing to validation and release processes, including automated testing either on-target or in simulation
• Demonstrated ability to inspire, grow, and effectively manage a team of talented engineers
• Interest in contributing to our product vision, engineering approach, and team culture
• Experience in HAL layer, notification system, IPC multi-processing, multi-threading, debugging/core dump analysis.
• Good communication, problem solving skills and team player.

About VIZIO

We are Beautifully Simple.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the #1 Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers. Our loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we redefine what it means to be smart.

VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency, outside recruiter or firm without a mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes will be considered our property and will be processed accordingly.