Software Engineering Manager (Nextest, San Jose)

Our Purpose 
TERADYNE, where experience meets innovation and driving excellence in every connection. We are fueled by creativity and diversity of thought and in our workforce. Our employees are supported to innovate and learn something new every day. 
 
We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results. 

Opportunity Overview 

We are seeking an Engineering Manager for our Nextest division to manage a Software development team. The team is responsible for the design, implementation, testing and delivery of software for Digital Instruments on our flagship products/platform. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Create milestone-based development schedules for new features to ensure delivery of high-quality software within time and budget. 

• Collaborate with technical subject matter experts to understand software requirements for new system features for which the team is responsible 

• Drive, unblock, and strategize with stakeholders on software delivery for time-critical projects. 

• Provide technical and management over enablement of the development of functional specifications and design documents based on requirements. 

• Monitor progress, take corrective action as needed, and report   status to software and project management. 

• Provide career coaching and feedback to employees to help them   expand and deepen their skills, have a track record of hiring highly productive   engineers. 

• Develop ATE-specific technical knowledge and skill required to communicate and resolve issues that affect customers. 

All About You 

• BS in CS, CE or EE.  MS. Preferred 

• Minimum1-3 years functional management experience with successful performance management and talent retention experience. 

• 1-3 years of experience in software development on semiconductor test or ATE equipment. 

• Excellent communication skills with interfacing multi discipline stakeholders. 

• Excellent interpersonal relationship skills and ability to resolve conflicts, especially cross teams. 

• Energetic team player who can motivate a variety of people and disciplines 

• Solid grasp of Object-Oriented Design and have a passion for highly predictable quality releases. 

• Prior experience as a software engineer will be beneficial (C/C++, MS Visual Studio) to this role, especially developing software for hardware instrumentation 

• Experience working with HW engineers and FPGA developers 

• Proven success as a manager with a good track record of delivery to production for customer facing products 

• A passion for learning about the ATE industry and ecosystem. 

• Experience communicating over various busses; GPIB, I2C, SPI,  PCIe, etc.