Job Description:
Reporting to the R&D Director, the Manager of Software Engineering is responsible for leading the end-to-end software engineering activities for the product line.
The role safeguards the long-term technical competitiveness, scalability, and industrial robustness of software platforms. It combines:
- Strategic Software Design Authority in France,
- Scalable Software Delivery Factory in India,
- Strong governance aligned with CAMECA NPI / Stage-Gate processes,
- Transformation of legacy instrument software into a modular, hardware-agnostic platform.
Software is treated as a strategic product asset and a key differentiator for CAMECA’s business model.
Responsibilities:
The manager of Software Engineering will ensure:
Global Software Engineering Leadership
- Lead and structure the global SIMS Software Engineering organization (France + India).
- Define and deploy the target software operating model in line with the SIMS R&D transformation.
- Own software delivery performance (Quality, Cost, Delivery).
- Establish clear governance, Key performance Indicators, and cross-site performance cadence.
- Act as final escalation authority for major technical and delivery matters.
- Develop technical leadership, succession plans, and engineering capability maturity.
Software Design Authority – Gennevilliers
- Own end-to-end software system architecture across the portfolio.
- Define and enforce modular, hardware-agnostic architectural principles.
- Ensure system-level integration (software / electronics / physics / mechanics).
- Approve key architectural decisions and arbitrate technical trade-offs.
- Define validation, qualification, and release criteria.
- Ensure cybersecurity-by-design and compliance considerations are embedded in architecture.
- Guarantee long-term maintainability, backward compatibility, and lifecycle sustainability.
Software Delivery Factory – Bangalore
- Build and scale the India-based Software Engineering organization.
- Implement disciplined Agile execution and industrialized DevOps practices.
- Ensure feature development, sustaining engineering, refactoring, and documentation.
- Enforce standards, traceability, configuration management, and release discipline.
- Protect Design Authority while scaling execution capacity.
- Ensure predictable velocity and milestone adherence.
Platform Strategy & Modernization
- Lead the transition from instrument-specific legacy software to a scalable software platform.
- Define platform roadmap aligned with product and business strategy.
- Integrate:
- Modern UI/UX
- Core real-time instrument control
- Data acquisition & processing
- Integrated data visualization
- Post-processing workflows
- AI/ML enablement readiness
- Reduce technical debt and maintenance burden.
- Drive reuse strategy across multiple instruments.
- Contribute to long-term platform consolidation and modernization strategy.
NPI, Compliance & Quality:
- Ensure full compliance with CAMECA NPI / Stage-Gate processes.
- Lead structured design reviews, documentation control, and change management.
- Ensure software contributions support overall product compliance with applicable regulatory standards.
- Embed cybersecurity-by-design principles aligned with industrial requirements.
- Maintain rigorous traceability from requirements to validation evidence and release.
- Drive continuous improvement in software quality, defect prevention, and industrial robustness.
Sustaining & Lifecycle Engineering
- Lead sustaining activities including corrective updates, performance improvements, and obsolescence-driven adaptations.
- Maintain configuration control and release integrity across product generations.
- Ensure controlled evolution of legacy platforms while limiting technical debt accumulation.
- Support cost optimization and value engineering initiatives.
- Contribute to long-term lifecycle cost (TCO) optimization.
Cross-Functional & External Collaboration
- Translate market and customer requirements into clear software specifications in partnership with Product Marketing
- Work closely with Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Service.
- Interface with external development partners, suppliers, and test laboratories when applicable.
- Support manufacturing ramp-up and troubleshooting during industrialization.
Education & Experience :
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline. Advanced technical degree preferred.
- 12–15+ years of experience in software engineering within complex high-tech equipment, scientific instrumentation, or industrial systems.
- Minimum 5 years in technical leadership or software organization management roles.
- Proven experience in multi-site or distributed engineering environments.
- Experience scaling offshore or Low Cost Region engineering capacity is highly desirable.
Professional Knowledge & Abilities :
Technical Expertise
- Proven experience in complex multi-layered architecture combining:
- Real-time/embedded control
- Data acquisition systems
- Signal/data processing
- Advanced UI frameworks
- Strong expertise in C/C++ for real-time or near-real-time environments.
- Experience with Linux-based systems and/or RTOS environments.
- Knowledge of languages for control or data applications.
- Knowledge of customizable graphics: C#, WPF, MVVM.
- Experience with hardware abstraction layers and industrial communication interfaces.
- Strong understanding of software/system integration challenges in high-precision instruments.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity practices applicable to industrial/scientific equipment.
- Experience deploying scalable CI/CD and automated testing in regulated or high-reliability environments.
Agile & Delivery Model Governance
- Define and deploy a scalable Agile delivery framework adapted to industrial NPI environments.
- Ensure alignment between Agile execution cycles and CAMECA Stage-Gate governance.
- Structure multi-squad organization (feature teams, platform teams, sustaining teams).
- Establish clear backlog ownership and prioritization mechanisms in collaboration with Product Management.
- Implement measurable velocity tracking and delivery predictability indicators.
- Prevent Agile drift by enforcing architectural coherence and design authority discipline.
- Ensure documentation, traceability, and regulatory constraints remain compatible with Agile execution.
Leadership & Strategic Capabilities
- Ability to define long-term software platform strategy and modernization roadmap.
- Strong capability to manage technical trade-offs (performance, determinism, scalability, cost).
- Experience in make-or-buy decisions and external partner governance.
- Financial literacy for budget planning and cost optimization.
- Strong communicator able to present complex technical topics clearly to executive stakeholders.
- Resilient, structured, and decision-oriented leadership style.
- Professional proficiency in English (minimum B2 level).
About Us:
CAMECA is a world leading supplier of microanalytical and metrology instrumentation for research and process control. Our instruments measure elemental and isotopic composition in materials down to atomic resolution and equip government and university labs as well as high-tech industrial companies around the world.
Learn how we address challenging characterization needs in diverse markets: semi-conductor, nanotechnology and novel materials, nuclear science, energy, biology, environment, mining, geology.
CAMECA is also at the forefront of ion and electron source technology with TES - Polygon Physics, the most compact ECR source in the world. Discover ECR source applications.
