Director of Engineering

This position is an excellent opportunity for a dynamic leader with strategic vision. Priorities include a focus on growing talent and execution against priorities.

This role requires significant management experience including the management of managers and individual contributors. This is an in-office position, where the selected candidate will be required to work out of our Waterloo, Ontario office.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for engineering across the full product lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery of products that meet defined functional, cost, schedule, performance, quality, and reliability objective
• Promote a culture of technical excellence and innovation, encouraging experimentation, learning, and the application of emerging technologies into commercially viable products
• Articulate the strategic vision and provide inspirational leadership to the engineering team and instill a sense of urgency and intense customer focus.
• Partner with Product, Manufacturing, Service, Quality, Sales, and leadership to convert company strategy into executable technical roadmaps.
• Provide clear, concise reporting updates to the General Manager and leadership teams as required.
• Develop and maintain departmental budgets.
• Performs other related duties to benefit the organization.

We are looking for

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience, Masters or PhD preferred. MBA is beneficial.
• Background in AI, computer vision/robotics or calibration algorithms is beneficial.
• Proven leadership of multi-disciplinary engineering organizations
• Strong systems thinking across complex products involving software, hardware, mechanical, electrical, optical, quality, and manufacturing.
• Excellent execution discipline: able to convert strategy into priorities, roadmaps, staffing plans, budgets, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Credible technical judgement: able to ask strong questions, assess tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and guide practical engineering decisions.
• Demonstrable ability to implement products using artificial intelligence.

Salary Range: CAD $225,000.00 - $275,000.00

Salary range is inclusive of base salary and eligible incentive program.

Virtek encourages applications from all qualified candidates. Accommodations are available upon request. Should you need an accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process please contact us at View phone number on click.appcast.io.