DevJobs

VP R&D

Overview
Skills
  • DevOps DevOps
  • CI/CD CI/CD
  • AWS AWS
  • Cloud Platforms
  • IoT
  • Embedded Systems
  • Wireless Communication Protocols

Join us to drive innovation that protects one of the world’s most vital resources while building cutting-edge technology in a fast-growing, high-impact business.

We’re looking for a seasoned R&D leader (10+ years of experience) to lead and scale our growing engineering organization.

You’ll lead a talented, multi-disciplinary team including hardware, embedded, cloud, mobile, data science, QA, and DevOps in building world-class products to take the company to the next step of growth and leadership.


Key Responsibilities:


Leadership & Execution

  • Lead, organize, and scale the R&D organization to support growth and product delivery goals.
  • Own the full product lifecycle — from early design to release and long-term support.
  • Build a culture of speed, quality, and accountability.

Technical & Operational Management

  • Oversee architecture, engineering, and operations of our IoT devices and cloud platform.
  • Ensure seamless integration across hardware, firmware, cloud, and applications.
  • Lead DevOps, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response to ensure uptime and reliability.
  • Drive rigorous quality practices across development, testing, and real-world validation.

Team Development

  • Hire, mentor, and grow world-class engineering talent across disciplines.
  • Define KPIs, manage performance, and align team development with tech trends.
  • Optimize R&D budgets, tools, and vendor partnerships.

Cross-functional Collaboration

  • Partner with Product, Customer Success, Operations, and Sales to align delivery with business priorities.
  • Provide technical guidance, risk assessments, and forecasts to executive leadership.
  • Lead fast, effective resolution of field and production issues.

Qualifications

  • A bachelor’s or a master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electrical engineering or related field.
  • 10+ years of engineering leadership experience.
  • Experience in in a multi-disciplinary product offering that combines hardware including IoT devices.
  • Deep knowledge in cloud platforms (AWS) and IoT architectures.
  • Proven track record of managing both software/hardware development, QA and DevOps teams.
  • Outstanding leadership, team building, and communication skills.
  • Experience managing distributed or remote engineering and QA teams.

Preferred Skills

  • Hands-on familiarity with embedded systems and wireless communication protocols.
  • Knowledge of end-to-end IoT system design.
  • Experience with cybersecurity best practices in IoT and cloud solutions.

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