RD Platform Manager Hardware Platform Team Lead

R&D Platform Manager / Hardware Platform Team Lead

Company / Role Overview

Our client is an expert in the field of building ANPR cameras for multiple purposes ranging from civil security speed enforcement and car park applications amongst other usecases both for the UK and international markets.

The Hardware Platform team is a multidisciplinary team consisting of Electrical Mechanical Firmware and Embedded Engineers. They are responsible for delivering custom hardware platforms inline with product/customer requirements. The team has ownership over the endtoend design of hardware encompassing electrical design to operating system and board support packages.

You will work in close collaboration with the Software Algorithms/ML and Systems team within R&D. Together these teams form a small group of 20 Engineers responsible for all aspects related to ANPR cameras from their conception to the whole software and algorithms they run. The team also works in close partnership with Product Management Procurement and Manufacturing to ensure overall system delivery.

About You

Our client is looking for a skilled R&D Platform Manager / Hardware Platform Team Lead to lead the Hardware Platform team working on camera products. You will have team leadership and line management responsibilities but will also be an expert in embedded Linux and contribute a portion of your time to technical contributions. The technical contributions will range from lowlevel device driver development to managing the platform OS and board support package of the company s Linux distributions.

As the R&D Platform Manager / Hardware Platform Team Lead you will be responsible for leading a team of experienced Engineers. You will work closely with Senior Management Product and Project Management to define product roadmaps and to allocate resources. You will be responsible for managing the teams priorities and for ensuring that work is delivered on schedule.

From the technical side you will use your expertise to manage the overall OS and board support package of the company s hardware platforms. You will work on hardware bringup and all work related to the embedded Linux side. This includes boot chain development Linux kernel hacking device driver development Linux distribution building and more.

Experience Required

Strong management and leadership skills preferably with at least two years of experience in leading and managing a team

Can take ownership of the full feature life cycle: understand the requirements design a solution that can be integrated into the product and deliver it (design implement and test) in collaboration with the team

Can work autonomously and as a team player contributing towards overall product development in line with project timelines whilst being eager to explore novel solutions and innovate

Key Responsibilities

Ability to work with key business stakeholders to define roadmaps and plan work for the team

Extensive experience programming in C/C and shell scripting knowledge

Experience working with Linux kernel device drivers (V4L2 I2C SPI UART etc.) ranging from developing drivers from scratch porting drivers and debugging issues in upstream drivers

Experience developing device trees and pinmux configurations

Extensive experience building and developing custom Linux distributions using Yocto

Knowledge of authoring/maintaining meta layers developing recipes and bbclasses

Experience developing systems using Buildroot

Experience with core Linux system components such as process management logging networking graphics stack etc.

Knowledge of the earlystage boot process working with UEFI UBoot and initrd scripts

Experience in system bringup and hardware integration

Extensive experience with Linux environments and embedded Linux

Basic electronics knowledge; able to navigate through datasheets and schematics

Comfortable liaising with suppliers and other 3rd parties

Skills Required

Knowledge of networking hardware; 4G/5G modems WIFI 5/6 and other RF technologies

Experience working with network software stacks; ModemManager Network Manager IPsec VPN s IPTables etc.

Experience working with A/B symmetric update processes

Experience working with Python

Experience with CI/CD and automated testing

Experience developing software/firmware for microcontrollers and RTOS familiarity

Experience using Atlassian suite of products such as Jira and Confluence

Knowledge of software version control using tools such as Git and SVN