Engineering Lead - Pittsburgh, United States - K A Hamilton Associates

Description

Engineering Lead - Field Software
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
What We Do

Our client is helping the world's most important organizations ensure the availability, reliability, and sustainability of critical infrastructure.

Role at a Glance

As the field software tech lead manager, you will lead the growth of the Field Software Team and Field Software offering as we diversify the types of inspections and platforms.

You will be responsible for working with a UX designer and autonomy teams to build out a state of the art inspection platform with autonomy-in-the-loop features.

Your work will marry the NDT skills and analysis required to execute a quality inspection with customer-facing operations management to ensure that every collection our client does results in high quality deliverables.

As one of the software engineering leads, you will work broadly across software teams to define software development patterns that will scale with the company's growing needs.

You will partner closely with engineers and operators in the field and in the lab to develop expertise in robotic platforms and create the software interface between the robotic hardware and the operations team.

You will be responsible for maintaining long term roadmaps of the field software systems, interfaces, and components that are aligned with the company/business direction.

You will manage a team of 3-5 contributors for the field software system and set the bar for software development.

What you will do

As the field software engineering tech lead manager you will
Collaborate with UX and Autonomy engineers to design and build the next generation of inspection software
Be an active contributor to the field software codebase
Design the software systems that enable data collection across a multitude of data collection modalities
Understand the different roles and consumers for field systems and tailor designs to those users
Make core tech stack decisions for field software including identification of new technologies, systems, interfaces, etc. that align with the long term plans for the company
Work across departments to understand stakeholder requirements
Deeply understand the task of data collection and design solutions that increase efficiency and quality of operations in the field
Become an expert in robotic platforms and design the software interfaces for those platforms
Create and maintain long term roadmaps for field software systems
Lead a team of 3-5 engineers in design and implementation of world-class field software

Technologies We Use

We use a variety of technologies but primarily operate using Python and JavaScript. A successful candidate in this role will have a working knowledge of python and some knowledge of microservice architectures.

About You

Required Skills
Minimum 3+ years of experience in a technically hands-on software management/lead role
Ability to dive into a code base and develop new features
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
Experience working with partner and stakeholder teams on creating solutions with complex requirement sets.
Experience working with microservices and deploying user-facing applications.
Able to work independently and demonstrate end-to-end ownership of a critical part of Field Software Platform
Strong data structures and algorithms knowledge.
Strong background in software engineering design.
Experience in standing up software testing for complex user applications.
Experience deploying applications to multiple operating system environments.

Preferred Skills
Experience building web applications using React/Svelte, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Experience with privacy, compliance, and governance in the advertising space.
5+ years technical leadership experience in building business-critical and reliable systems.
You are driven by the desire to solve hard technical problems with the goal of automating
You are self-motivated and love making an impact.
You can work independently, delivering innovative solutions with minimal guidance.
You have a successful track record of delivering results in complex cross-functional projects.
You have a strong bias towards action.

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