Job Title: Director - Technology / Engineering - Residential Gateways, Embedded Platforms & Wireless : We are looking for a Director of Technology / Engineering to lead the strategy, architecture, execution, and delivery of next-generation residential gateway platforms. This role will own the technical roadmap across embedded firmware, prplOS/OpenWrt-based platforms, Linux wireless, broadband device management, networking, containerization, and carrier-grade software reliability. : Key Responsibilities :

- Technology Strategy & Roadmap: Define and drive the long-term technology roadmap for residential gateway software platforms, ensuring alignment with business priorities, product strategy, customer commitments, and evolving broadband technology standards. :

- Engineering Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop managers, architects, technical leads, and senior engineers across embedded firmware, wireless, networking, platform, QA, and automation functions. :

- Architecture Governance: Own architectural direction for scalable, hardware-agnostic gateway platforms leveraging prplOS/OpenWrt, SoC abstraction, Linux networking, device management, containerized services, and lifecycle management. :

- Execution & Delivery: Oversee end-to-end engineering delivery from requirements and architecture through development, validation, release, deployment, and production support. :

- Wireless & Broadband Platform Leadership: Provide strategic oversight for Wi-Fi 6E/Wi-Fi 7, Linux wireless stack, hostapd, wpa_supplicant, iw, TR-181, USP/TR-369, L2/L3 networking, routing, bridging, and packet forwarding capabilities. :

- Quality, Reliability & Performance: Establish engineering standards for code quality, test automation, unit testing, performance profiling, memory optimization, stability, observability,



and carrier-grade reliability. :

- Operational Excellence: Drive continuous improvement across engineering processes, CI/CD practices, release governance, defect management, incident response, technical debt reduction, and productivity metrics. :

- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with product, program management, architecture, security, operations, customer-facing teams, and external partners to ensure technology solutions are scalable, secure, cost-effective, and commercially viable. :

- Vendor & Ecosystem Management: Manage strategic relationships with silicon vendors, software partners, open-source communities, and technology suppliers to influence roadmaps and resolve complex integration challenges. :

- People, Budget & Resource Planning: Own workforce planning, hiring, capability development, budget inputs, resource allocation, and succession planning for the technology organization. : Must-Have Requirements :

- Experience: 15+ years of technology, embedded software, platform engineering, or telecom/networking product development experience, including 5+ years in engineering leadership roles. :

- Domain Expertise: Strong background in broadband, telecom, networking, residential gateways, embedded Linux, connected devices, or carrier-grade platform software. :

- Leadership Scale: Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams, managers, architects,



and senior technical contributors across complex product portfolios. :

- Embedded Platform Knowledge: Robust understanding of C/C++, embedded Linux, OpenWrt/prplOS, firmware architecture, SoC integration, hardware abstraction, and platform lifecycle management. :

- Networking & Wireless: Deep knowledge of L2/L3 networking concepts, routing, bridging, Wi-Fi architecture, Linux wireless stack, and broadband connectivity standards. :

- Device Management: Strong working knowledge of TR-181, USP/TR-369, remote device management, telemetry, provisioning, and carrier operations requirements. :

- Delivery Leadership: Demonstrated success delivering complex technology programs across architecture, development, testing, release, and production support. :

- Engineering Excellence: Experience establishing best practices for SDLC, automation, CI/CD, test strategy, code quality, observability, performance profiling, security, and reliability. :

- Stakeholder Management: Ability to influence senior leaders, product stakeholders, vendors, customers, and distributed engineering teams through clear communication and data-driven decision-making. :

- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred. : Good-to-Have Requirements :

- Hands-on experience with prplOS, prpl Foundation ecosystem, OpenWrt ubus, iMTP, Docker-based embedded services, or prpl LCM. :

- Experience working with Broadcom, MaxLinear, Qualcomm, or similar residential gateway SoC platforms. :

- **Exposure to Wi-Fi 7, EasyMesh, multi-AP architectures, cloud-managed CPE, telemetry plat

📌 Director - Technology / Engineering - Residential Gateways, Embedded Platforms & Wireless (Hyderabad)
🏢 Atet
📍 Hyderabad