Technical Leader Jobs

Under the responsibility of the R&D hardware engineering group manager, the technical leader is central in the development of our hardware technical solutions. Thus, together with the architects, he proposes solutions, to then ensure the technical coordination of the design teams during the development of the products. These teams, made up of specialists, designers and technicians, develop future EXFO products that are considered the most efficient in the world in the field of optical instrumentation and protocol analysis. The Technical Leader has a wealth of knowledge and experience allowing him to act as a technical advisor and coach within the group and also to set up and promote good working methods and processes.

The Challenges And Mandates That Await You

• Establish and promote good working methods and processes.
• Ensure technical decision-making;
• Support technical design work and provide required technical assistance to team members;
• Be the representative of the R&D technical team within the project team;
• Assign tasks and coordinate activities associated with the deliverables of the R&D technical team;
• In collaboration with the members of your teams, elaborate detailed implementation plans for the projects assigned to you;
• Actively lead the resolution of technical issues;
• Give the progress status of projects;
• Actively participate in the development of his team's schedule in collaboration with the project manager;
• Ensure interdisciplinary communication;

Required Profile

• Solid experience in carrying out the hardware developpment (mechanical, electronic, signal integrity, signal processing (FPGA)) of complex and multidisciplinary technical development projects
• Solid experience in complex electronic design (signal integrity >10Gbps, use of complex integrated circuits such as FPGA, CPU, DDR4 among others)
• Experience and leadership as an electronic designer in a context of multidisciplinary projects (mechanical, low-level software, certification, manufacturing issues)
• Open-mindedness and Leadership
• Very good sense of priority management, great autonomy
• Very good ability to converge a technical team towards the best solutions
• Excellent planning and project monitoring skills.
• Team Player
• Mastery of PCB design issues for high-speed applications
• Good command of the hardware product development sequence and the interdependencies involved

Required Skills

• Minimum of 15 years of relevant experience (within multidisciplinary project teams with a high degree of technical complexity) as an electronic PCB designer, including 5 years demonstrating strong leadership
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (related degree and relevant equivalent experience may be considered)
• French and English (spoken and written)
• Additional training and experience in team management, an asset