Director of Software Engineering

GenLogs is a transportation-technology company building truck intelligence through sensor networks, computer vision, AI-driven analytics, and large-scale field deployment. The Director of Software Engineering will lead the engineering organization, set technical direction, develop engineering practices, and oversee the delivery of reliable, scalable applications and systems integrating hardware, software, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team spanning software engineering, product development, machine learning applications, and agentic development
• Build a high-performing engineering culture centered on ownership, technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Establish clear expectations, goals, career development paths, and performance standards for engineers and engineering leaders
• Recruit and retain exceptional engineering talent as the organization scales
• Develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders, creating leverage through effective delegation and leadership
• Foster strong collaboration across engineering disciplines and ensure teams operate with shared goals and accountability
• Define and evolve the technical strategy and architecture for the user facing applications and services
• Guide architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs across the full product lifecycle
• Ensure engineering investments balance near-term product delivery with long-term reliability, scalability, maintainability, and cost
• Establish engineering standards and practices that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality
• Identify technical risks and dependencies early and drive them to resolution
• Partner with senior engineers to evaluate new technologies, tools, and approaches that can improve the product and engineering organization
• Partner closely with Product and Deployment to translate business and customer requirements into executable engineering plans
• Own engineering execution against product and technology roadmaps, ensuring teams are aligned on priorities and delivery expectations
• Create effective planning and development processes that provide visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, and resource requirements
• Remove organizational and technical blockers and ensure teams maintain a strong bias toward action
• Ensure hardware and software development are coordinated effectively across design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance
• Establish mechanisms for learning from field deployments and incorporating operational feedback into product and engineering decisions
• Drive improvements in system availability, performance, observability, security, and operational resilience
• Establish rigorous testing and validation practices across hardware, embedded software, and cloud systems
• Partner with Deployment and Operations to improve installation, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management of deployed systems
• Develop processes for diagnosing and resolving complex production and field issues with urgency and ownership
• Ensure engineering teams build systems that can scale from current deployments to a national-level sensing network
• Serve as the senior engineering partner to Product leadership for user facing product lines
• Work closely with Deployment to ensure engineering solutions are practical, supportable, and optimized for real-world deployment
• Partner with Data Science and Data Engineering teams to ensure sensor systems produce accurate, reliable, and usable data
• Communicate technical strategy, roadmap, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to company leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
• Build strong relationships across the organization and create alignment around technical and business priorities

Requirements:

• 10+ years of engineering experience, with significant experience leading engineering teams and organizations
• 5+ years of people management experience, including experience managing senior engineers and/or engineering managers
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams across two or more of the following: hardware, embedded systems, edge computing, backend software, cloud infrastructure, or distributed systems
• Experience building and operating products that combine physical hardware with software systems
• Proven experience scaling engineering teams, processes, and technical infrastructure as a company or product grows
• Strong technical understanding of modern software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and production systems
• Experience establishing engineering standards, development processes, testing practices, and operational excellence
• Demonstrated ability to make sound technical and organizational decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Strong track record of recruiting, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering talent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
• High effectiveness and communication working in a remote and distributed team
• English proficiency is required
• You are a builder and a leader. You enjoy developing people and organizations while remaining technically engaged enough to understand complex systems and make sound technical decisions
• You think across the entire system. You can connect hardware, embedded software, edge systems, cloud infrastructure, and data into a cohesive product architecture
• You prioritize impact. You understand that engineering exists to solve meaningful customer and business problems, and you focus teams on delivering measurable outcomes
• You operate with urgency and ownership. You are comfortable making decisions with imperfect information, removing obstacles, and driving issues to resolution
• You raise the bar. You establish clear standards for engineering quality, reliability, execution, and accountability—and consistently hold yourself and your team to them
• You develop people. You invest in coaching, feedback, career development, and creating opportunities for engineers to take on greater responsibility
• You balance speed with durability. You know when to move quickly, when to invest in foundational work, and how to make pragmatic technical tradeoffs without accumulating unnecessary complexity
• You thrive in complexity. You are energized by systems that operate in the real world and understand that building reliable technology often requires solving problems across organizational and technical boundaries
• You communicate clearly. You can translate complex technical concepts into clear decisions, priorities, and tradeoffs for engineers, product leaders, executives, and cross-functional partners
• You value transparency and collaboration. You actively seek input, give direct feedback, and build trust through clear communication and accountability
• You are curious and adaptable. You continuously learn, challenge assumptions, and look for better ways to build both technology and teams
• You are comfortable in a remote environment. You create clarity, alignment, and accountability across distributed teams without relying on proximity