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Senior Director, Engineering - Enablement Foundations

Ann Arbor, MI

Meet The Team:  

Within the Torc Enablement Division, the Foundations Team is a new organization responsible for all Technology Build, Test and Tool Environments. It is the foundation for our software development life cycle (SDLC). The Foundations Team achieves their goals through close collaboration with internal groups (Engineering, Enablement Operations, Product and Business Ops) as well as external partnerships.

What You’ll Do:  
We are looking for a seasoned leader that will bring new ideas, optimizations, and best practices for the entire technology organization. As a senior director, you will work closely with leadership and engineers to deliver the solutions, processes and measurements that support the development of high-quality safety-critical software. Specific areas of focus for the Foundations Team may include: 

  • Set vision, develop strategies and deliver results that enable engineering to effectively deliver our products to market
  • Collaborate with other departments like engineering or product teams to understand requirements, plan, improve and deploy complex technical solutions and tools.
  • Communicate effectively with management and stakeholders regarding quality and performance of our technical environments
  • Develop and manage measurements to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure team effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
  • Identify and incorporate software industry trends for measuring the stability and throughput of Torc’s SDLC
  • Analyze failure feedback to identify trends and implement improvements to support processes
  • Optimize budgets and resource allocation
  • Hire and develop a high performing team. 

As a strategic thinker, the Senior Director, Engineering is staying on top of latest innovations in the industry and drive new ideas into the organization. This person will also continuously review internal developments and is proactively resolving roadblocks within their organization and beyond. 

As a leader, you are responsible for the … 

  • Development of business plans and operational priorities to meet goals and objectives of the organization.
  • Facilitation of processes for the delivery of scalable and high-quality systems products for autonomous driving vehicles and support systems.
  • Collaboration with other management and teams as needed to meet goals, monitor team performance, and achieve objectives.
  • Understanding of the industry best practices in support and partner management
  • Career development and coaching of the team.
  • Selection and performance management of the teams.
  • Continuous performance feedback is being delivered
  • Compensation analysis in close collaboration with peer managers and People Operations. 

What You’ll Need to Succeed:  

  • Ability to be a strategic partner to the organization and identify & plan how to meet future needs of the organization.
  • Expert knowledge and demonstrated leader in area like CI/CD, Developer Tooling, Test and Build environments, acting as an advisor to other leaders on relevant trends and emerging issues.
  • Ability to effectively manage a team of managers and professionals and identify opportunities to grow and develop the team.
  • Ability to evangelize best practices and promote consistent standards including performance metrics, root cause analysis and CLCA.
  • A customer first mentality: experience leading teams that support products or engineering environments.
  • Develop plans and anticipate the needs for incident response, security and compliance audits. 

Bonus Points: 

  • 20+ years Experience within CI/CD and Software Build environments
  • 15+ years Experience working with Simulated environments  
  • 15+ years Leader experience
  • Experience with embedded systems involving automated testing on hardware (HiL) 

Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r 

Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers: 

  • A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options
  • 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
  • 401K plan with a 6% employer match
  • Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)
  • Company-wide holiday office closures
  • AD+D and Life Insurance 
Hiring Range for Job Opening 

US Pay Range

$262,100 - $314,500 USD

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