Director of Software Engineering position at Samsung
I know that many of my readers are technical and interested in wireless innovation so I thought I’d pass this along. Samsung is looking for a director of software engineering for a creative team.
Director, Software Engineering
Dallas, TexasInvolves managing a group of 25 or so creative individuals and being an idea leader for that group. The group is expected to generate approximately 25 patents per year. The candidate must guide the work of some truly creative individuals. The output will be software innovations that will be used in future handsets models. This position gets a lot of visibility in HQ so the candidate must be able to travel to Korea to represent his work.
Requirements
MS or PhD from a tier one university (e.g. Ivy League, CMU, Stanford, MIT, academic Big Ten, etc) At least 10 years experience with embedded systems design, algorithms and C language programming. Understanding of software architecture and algorithms
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As someone who pioneered software engineering as a profession, I am dissapointed at the lack of understanding of the nature of a Director of Software Engineering (DSE) position the Samsung advertisement communicates. Generally, software engineers are over managed and under lead. The DSE is a leader of leaders. As such, the DSE sets policy, strategic plans, sets up measures of strategic throughput, software team creation and monitoring methods and so forth. The DSE is looking toward and over a time horizon of 1 to 5 years. The detailed technical day-to-day decisions and running of projects is handled at a lower level. The DSE sets the tone, the goals, the environment within which motivated, creative people work. Contrary to common belief, software engineers are more productive in a structured, bounded, rule based environment than a lassez faire one - the data proves it - even though they will complain.
Good luck to Samsung - I hope they select a candidate who can fill the previously stated bill.
By Lawrence Peters, PhD, CSDP on 02.05.09 11:03 am
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