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Software Engineering Manager / Technical Lead (Embedded Systems)
Location: Wilmington, NC (Onsite – 5 days/week)
A growing manufacturing organization on the North Carolina coast is seeking a hands?on Software Engineering Manager to lead a small embedded software team. This role is best suited for someone who still enjoys being deep in the code while also guiding and mentoring engineers.
This is not a heavily administrative management role. Instead, it functions as a technical lead position with meaningful ownership of architecture, development, and problem?solving, paired with gradual people?leadership responsibilities.
What You’ll Do
Location: Wilmington, NC (Onsite – 5 days/week)
A growing manufacturing organization on the North Carolina coast is seeking a hands?on Software Engineering Manager to lead a small embedded software team. This role is best suited for someone who still enjoys being deep in the code while also guiding and mentoring engineers.
This is not a heavily administrative management role. Instead, it functions as a technical lead position with meaningful ownership of architecture, development, and problem?solving, paired with gradual people?leadership responsibilities.
What You’ll Do
- Act as the technical lead for a tight?knit embedded software team
- Spend the majority of your time writing, debugging, and reviewing code
- Provide technical guidance and support, especially around complex debugging challenges
- Collaborate closely with hardware and cross?functional teams
- Help coordinate work across a mix of full?time and contract engineers
- Participate in some client?facing technical discussions
- Contribute to designs that go from concept to real?world deployment
- Lead a team of ~5 embedded engineers
- Blend of onsite full?time engineers and contractors
- Strong collaboration with in?house hardware teams
- Opportunity to grow into broader people leadership over time (no need to be a seasoned manager on day one)
- Strong foundation in embedded software development
- Experience working in OS?based embedded environments
- Comfortable operating as a technical leader or senior lead engineer
- Background in manufacturing or contract manufacturing environments is a plus
- Roughly 10 years of relevant experience preferred, but flexibility for the right profile
- Embedded Linux and/or Windows Embedded
- C, C , and/or Python
- System?level debugging and problem?solving experience
- High impact, hands?on technical work
- Products and solutions are built and deployed, not theoretical
- Long?term growth opportunity within a stable manufacturing environment
- Onsite office close to downtown Wilmington, NC
- Competitive and flexible, based on experience
- Target range: $120,000–$140,000
Salary : $120,000 - $140,000