R&D Director – INTL India

Insight Global is seeking an R&D Director to establish and lead a new Software R&D organization in Bangalore, India. This role will be responsible for building, scaling, and guiding high-performing engineering teams that deliver core software components for a global technology portfolio. The R&D Director will provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, design, and engineering standards while setting a strong development culture focused on quality, scalability, and execution. This individual will partner closely with global business units to align technical strategy, drive delivery of complex software initiatives, and integrate the India R&D lab as a critical contributor within the broader global R&D organization.

Responsibilities:
- Build and lead the engineering aspects of the India Software Lab (hire, develop, and retain senior engineers and engineering leaders; set a high hiring bar and strong engineering culture)
- Drive architecture/design reviews, unblock complex technical issues, and coach teams in day-to-day engineering execution
- Establish scalable engineering standards: code quality, CI/CD, test automation, reliability, observability, and secure development practices
- Cooperation with Advantest BUs to ensure delivery of working packages by India SW lab according to defined success criteria

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- 10+ years of experience in SW, high tech, semiconductor industries
- Strong experience in SW for complex embedded systems covering the full stack from HM to cloud
- Experience with semiconductor software, test ecosystems, EDA/DFT communities
- Experience building and leading engineering organizations (hiring, coaching, developing leaders, performance management)
- Ability to personally assess architecture and design, guide implementation approaches, and raise the engineering culture with focus on getting things done with high quality
- Proven ability to establish operating mechanisms that scale (planning cadences, metrics, governance, cross-team dependency management)

- In-depth understanding of India’s software market and ecosystem
- Strong experience in SW for complex embedded systems covering the full stack from HW to cloud
- Strong track record managing external engineering partnerships
- Experience building products, developer platforms/tooling in a scaled engineering environment.
- Experience working in scaled agile or large engineering organizations
- Flexibility to travel to other locations in India and world-wide Advantest locations

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.