Senior Director of SDET and PVR, Vancouver ***Completed***
Flex Logix is looking for the right individual to lead a team of talented engineers in the quality assurance of Flex Logix’s InferX product line. This is a senior leadership position of high visibility. This individual will contribute directly to the success of the company.
About Flex Logix
Backed by some of the savviest investors in this space, Flex Logix develops industry-leading AI inference acceleration engines and is also the #1 provider of eFPGA solutions. Our InferX X1 chipset is the industry’s fastest and most-efficient AI edge inference accelerator that brings AI to high-volume applications, surpassing competitor’s performance. Our Compiler will be one the most flexible, re-targetable, and easiest to use in the Edge AI arena. Our architecture is covered by dozens of patents and is highly differentiated giving us a sustainable competitive advantage.
The Flex-Logix Inference Software team is growing. We are planning a significant growth in the team across our three sites. The Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) and Product Verification and Release (PVR) teams will grow accordingly.
About the Role
In this role, you will be responsible for leading a talented group of InferX SDET designers and their managers along with the Product Verification and Release team. The InferX Compiler is an advanced piece of software capable of digesting all manner of Convolutional Neural Network models and adapting them to the renowned Flex Logix InferX X1 chipset. You'll be working with multiple software teams, deep learning scientists, and hardware designers, to design the appropriate test tools and harnesses to rigorously test and report upon the quality of the InferX application and get it ready for release.
You will grow the team, define the processes, build the framework, design the reporting architecture, along with your team members, and ensure that Flex Logix releases high quality products deterministically. Your direct reports will be the SDET and PVR managers and technical leaders of your team. You will report on the quality of the software in development to the exec team and help decide on release readiness.
About You
You are someone who has always enjoyed developing tools and scripts to help automate anything which can be automated! A smooth-running end to end flow of software tools and executables is what makes your day.
You are passionate about right-sized and efficient SW development processes and tools which make things go more smoothly
You believe that SW quality is something that should be assumed to exist before a release can take place
You are good at breaking-down a large problem into its constituent components; the flow from unit test through to end-to-end system verification is well understood by you
You feel strongly about the term ‘design for testability’ and the use of modern modular SW design techniques
You are experienced in the verification of embedded systems, from top-level API to Verilog and have always prided yourself on keeping up with the latest trends in embedded system testing and reporting
You are confident in your abilities to fill such a role and relish the chance to stretch yourself in a startup environment
You are an accomplished development leader who has managed development and/or SDET/PV/QA teams previously
Minimum Credentials
20+ years of experience in embedded software/system development and verification; 10+ years of experience leading such teams, preferably with some of the experience as a senior leader; leading other managers
Experience with C++, C, and the LINUX and Windows OS environments, GitHub, Jira, and modern test frameworks, e.g., Jenkins
Experienced in designing and implementing end-to-end test frameworks and tools in the embedded system development environment
Strong interpersonal skills and communication skills, both written and verbal; experienced in reporting on SW Quality to the execs. Comfortable in such forums.
BS or higher in computer/software engineering, electrical engineering, or related field
Must have Canadian Citizenship and/or be permitted to work in different tech companies in Canada.
CONTACT: Amanda Du Toit amanda@corporate.bc.ca