What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Engineering position at Yunex Traffic?
Location:
Austin, TX, TX, US, 78733
Type of Employment: Full-time
Career Level: Executive
Job Family: Research & Development
Date posted: Apr 21, 2026
Lead the Technology That Moves Cities
Yunex Traffic is shaping the future of mobility by designing, building, and operating intelligent transportation systems that make cities safer, smarter, and more sustainable. We are seeking an executive leader to serve as Director of Engineering for North America, a role for someone who is energized by complexity, driven by impact, and passionate about building world-class teams and products.
This is a senior executive engineering leadership role with end-to-end accountability for how our integrated product and solutions portfolio is developed, tested, released, and supported.
The Opportunity
As Director of Engineering, you will sit at the intersection of technology strategy, execution excellence, and people leadership. You will lead multidisciplinary teams that develop cloud platforms, as well as traffic control hardware and software, ensuring our products and solutions meet the highest standards of quality, cybersecurity, reliability, and customer value.
You will be a builder of winning teams, a trusted partner to customers and internal leaders, and a visible executive voice representing development excellence across North America and within Yunex’s global technology organization.
What You’ll Lead
Product Engineering Ownership
What You Bring
We are seeking an accomplished executive leader who brings strategic clarity, sound judgment, and a passion for delivering business impact through technology. This leader connects vision to execution, actively listens to customers with the ability to translate market needs into actionable priorities. One that inspires the team to perform at their best. The ideal hire is equally comfortable engaging engineers and executives, guiding organizations through complexity and change with confidence and credibility. Above all, this leader sets the tone through personal accountability, integrity, and high standards of excellence, building trust, developing talent, and fostering a culture where people are empowered to do their best work while delivering measurable results for our clients and our business.
Why Yunex Traffic?
In this role, you will directly influence:
Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States. Qualified Applicants will not require employer sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in the United States.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Yunex Traffic is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or
We believe that a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our team. While growing our international team, we are committed to providing an inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment which supports and enables each team member with personal growth along life’s journey. Benefits like parental leave and support for continued education are just a few of the ways Yunex Traffic strives to support our employees. Here at Yunex Traffic we believe and embrace that a diverse workforce is the only way to have a successful company. We therefore greatly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran.
Nearest Major Market: Austin
Austin, TX, TX, US, 78733
Type of Employment: Full-time
Career Level: Executive
Job Family: Research & Development
Date posted: Apr 21, 2026
Lead the Technology That Moves Cities
Yunex Traffic is shaping the future of mobility by designing, building, and operating intelligent transportation systems that make cities safer, smarter, and more sustainable. We are seeking an executive leader to serve as Director of Engineering for North America, a role for someone who is energized by complexity, driven by impact, and passionate about building world-class teams and products.
This is a senior executive engineering leadership role with end-to-end accountability for how our integrated product and solutions portfolio is developed, tested, released, and supported.
The Opportunity
As Director of Engineering, you will sit at the intersection of technology strategy, execution excellence, and people leadership. You will lead multidisciplinary teams that develop cloud platforms, as well as traffic control hardware and software, ensuring our products and solutions meet the highest standards of quality, cybersecurity, reliability, and customer value.
You will be a builder of winning teams, a trusted partner to customers and internal leaders, and a visible executive voice representing development excellence across North America and within Yunex’s global technology organization.
What You’ll Lead
Product Engineering Ownership
- Serve as the executive authority for product readiness, quality, and technical integrity.
- Ensure development execution aligns with customer needs, market trends, regulatory requirements, and ITS industry standards.
- Champion cybersecurity by ensuring global standards are embedded into products, processes, and team behaviors.
- Oversee cloud DevOps organizations to ensure highly available, resilient, and continuously operating production environments.
- Drive enhancements in hardware and embedded firmware development to accelerate product line modernization and ensure high quality and performance.
- Align North American development teams with global CTO and product organizations.
- Own development, cybersecurity, and intellectual property processes as North America’s Process Manager.
- Ensure a structured hardware lifecycle process, including strategy development for component end-of-life and related product updates
- Establish governance models, development standards, and decision frameworks that scale.
- Drive Agile, collaborative, and continuously improving delivery models.
- Lead internal and external audits (ISO, NEMA, and other applicable certifications).
- Build, inspire, and retain a high-performing engineering organization through coaching, empowerment, and succession planning.
- Coordinate globally distributed teams to operate as one organization with shared goals and accountability.
- Foster a culture of learning, inclusion, ethical leadership, and ownership.
- Ensure robust testing strategies are embedded across development programs.
- Champion automation, simulation, and modern testing practices to improve quality and cybersecurity.
- Partner with Quality and Operations to deliver reliable, safe, and field-proven products.
- Provide executive-level risk management and release readiness assessments.
- Own R&D portfolio planning, budgets, and investment priorities.
- Partner with Finance to evaluate business cases, manage spend, and maximize ROI.
- Act as a strategic partner to Product Management, Solutions Delivery, Operations, Technical Sales, and Bid Management.
- Represent senior technical leadership in major bids, customer engagements, and executive forums.
- Lead critical (Level 3) customer support escalations and ensure timely resolution.
- Capture lessons learned to continuously improve delivery and customer outcomes.
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related technical field.
- 10 years of senior experience in product, systems, or solutions development within transportation, ITS, industrial, or complex technology environments.
- Proven executive leadership experience building and leading high-performing teams.
- Demonstrated success delivering complex products on time, within budget, and at quality across multiple release cycles.
- Previous experience developing IoT or edge devices, as well as leading embedded firmware development across the full device lifecycle, including hardware interfacing, communication stacks, and real-time operational performance.
- Strong working fluency across cloud/SaaS platforms particularly those used to manage, monitor and control SCADA systems.
- Experience managing multi-million-dollar R&D budgets in partnership with Finance.
- Experience implementing and auditing cybersecurity standards in connected product environments.
- Experience supporting ISO, NEMA, or equivalent certification and audit processes.
- Ability to operate effectively in matrixed, global organizations.
- Prior experience in the traffic or transportation engineering industry.
- Familiarity with ITS standards and protocols (e.g., NTCIP, ATC, NEMA TS-2, V2X).
We are seeking an accomplished executive leader who brings strategic clarity, sound judgment, and a passion for delivering business impact through technology. This leader connects vision to execution, actively listens to customers with the ability to translate market needs into actionable priorities. One that inspires the team to perform at their best. The ideal hire is equally comfortable engaging engineers and executives, guiding organizations through complexity and change with confidence and credibility. Above all, this leader sets the tone through personal accountability, integrity, and high standards of excellence, building trust, developing talent, and fostering a culture where people are empowered to do their best work while delivering measurable results for our clients and our business.
Why Yunex Traffic?
In this role, you will directly influence:
- Product competitiveness and innovation
- Customer satisfaction and delivery performance
- The growth and development of engineering leaders and teams
- The long-term technology roadmap and market position of Yunex Traffic in North America
Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States. Qualified Applicants will not require employer sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in the United States.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Yunex Traffic is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or
We believe that a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our team. While growing our international team, we are committed to providing an inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment which supports and enables each team member with personal growth along life’s journey. Benefits like parental leave and support for continued education are just a few of the ways Yunex Traffic strives to support our employees. Here at Yunex Traffic we believe and embrace that a diverse workforce is the only way to have a successful company. We therefore greatly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran.
Nearest Major Market: Austin