Embedded Software Team Lead

Are you someone who is passionate, motivated, and driven to make a difference?  If so, MSA Safety is the perfect fit for your career. 

At MSA, SAFETY is who we are AND it is what we do.  We are a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to deliver on our Mission to help protect people and assets all around the world.  We continue to be relentless in our pursuit of solving our customers greatest problems so they can go home safe each and every day. 

Are you in?  Read on for more details about this particular role.

What you get to do:

• Join a tech company that makes solutions and products that directly protect and save lives of firefighters and industrial workers around the world everyday, as well as the environment
• Lead a diverse team of highly engaged, highly skilled embedded software engineers on projects that involve a variety of technology stacks and product types
• Firefighter equipment, gas detectors and industrial worker gear with various sensor technologies (e.g. thermal imaging, environmental sensing, location, infrared/lasers)
• IoT style ecosystem of physical/digital products with wireless and wired connectivity (e.g. AWS, cellular, GNSS, BLE)
• Safety critical software (SIL, security)

• Influence and shape development and execution of our gas detection-related strategy for

  toxic, poisonous, combustible gas and/or flame, refrigerant, chemical leak detection

  products, where the value provided to customers exponentially increases with ecosystem (cloud and

  device/sensor) level features, data gathering and insights, and wireless Internet of Things-style connectivity.

• Have a focus on software engineering as a discipline and the workflow/throughput/predictability of your team that promotes engineers on your team honing their technical and leadership skills and team dynamics, ensuring team output and delivery as well as opportunity for them to maximize their talents and potential for their own career development
• Work with peers in an embedded software leadership structure to hone and align on a larger vision beyond a single team, promoting group growth that improves both present and future delivery of customer value for MSA

About you:

• Your mindset is one of personal, team and company growth and you’ve demonstrated how meshing your own values and embodying an organization’s values translate into tangible actions that contribute to that growth
• Technical coaching and mentoring and enabling technical persons to thrive and grow personally and as part of a team is a passion of yours
• You embrace complex challenges and drive towards timely resolution that fit the setting, circumstance and people involved, in technical arenas as well as non-technical ones
• You value people and relationships, and would rather proactively engage others to help solve or prevent situations and issues, even if those others think differently or have different areas of focus or business drivers than you
• The idea of working with cross-functional and global teams in different product areas utilizing different technology stacks meeting different customer needs excites you
• You care about the “why” and delivering value to various internal and external stakeholders in a way that fulfills their stated or unstated underlying needs or requirements

Special Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Delivered working software in leadership capacity on a team that delighted the customer and the company
• Understanding of the software lifecycle and navigating the challenges and complexities that arise during a typical development cycle
• Experience interacting with breadth of internal/external stakeholders that software teams deliver to and cooperate with in the process of new product development, especially within an ecosystem of inter-communicating products
• Demonstrated ability to provide leadership, guidance and constructive feedback in a way where others feel empowered and motivated to grow and operate in their own capabilities
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, presentation)

Education and Experience Required:

• BSCE, BSEE or relevant technical discipline, preferably from an ABET or similarly accredited program
• At least 5 years of industry experience in software engineering
• (Preferred) Master's degree in computer-related field, business or management-related field

This role is posted at two levels: 

• Team Lead I: At least 1 year of experience in software-related technical leadership or team leadership/people management role
• Team Lead II: At least 3 years of experience in team leadership/people management role

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