Director of Engineering

Yunex Traffic

21d

About The Position

Yunex Traffic is seeking an executive leader to serve as Director of Engineering for North America. This role is for someone energized by complexity, driven by impact, and passionate about building world-class teams and products. This is a senior executive engineering leadership role with end-to-end accountability for how our integrated product and solutions portfolio is developed, tested, released, and supported. As Director of Engineering, you will sit at the intersection of technology strategy, execution excellence, and people leadership. You will lead multidisciplinary teams that develop cloud platforms, as well as traffic control hardware and software, ensuring our products and solutions meet the highest standards of quality, cybersecurity, reliability, and customer value. You will be a builder of winning teams, a trusted partner to customers and internal leaders, and a visible executive voice representing development excellence across North America and within Yunex’s global technology organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related technical field.
10+ years of senior experience in product, systems, or solutions development within transportation, ITS, industrial, or complex technology environments.
Proven executive leadership experience building and leading high-performing teams.
Demonstrated success delivering complex products on time, within budget, and at quality across multiple release cycles.
Previous experience developing IoT or edge devices, as well as leading embedded firmware development across the full device lifecycle, including hardware interfacing, communication stacks, and real-time operational performance.
Strong working fluency across cloud/SaaS platforms particularly those used to manage, monitor and control SCADA systems.
Experience managing multi-million-dollar R&D budgets in partnership with Finance.
Experience implementing and auditing cybersecurity standards in connected product environments.
Experience supporting ISO, NEMA, or equivalent certification and audit processes.
Ability to operate effectively in matrixed, global organizations.
Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States. Qualified Applicants will not require employer sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in the traffic or transportation engineering industry.
Familiarity with ITS standards and protocols (e.g., NTCIP, ATC, NEMA TS-2, V2X).

Responsibilities

Serve as the executive authority for product readiness, quality, and technical integrity.
Ensure development execution aligns with customer needs, market trends, regulatory requirements, and ITS industry standards.
Champion cybersecurity by ensuring global standards are embedded into products, processes, and team behaviors.
Oversee cloud DevOps organizations to ensure highly available, resilient, and continuously operating production environments.
Drive enhancements in hardware and embedded firmware development to accelerate product line modernization and ensure high quality and performance.
Align North American development teams with global CTO and product organizations.
Own development, cybersecurity, and intellectual property processes as North America’s Process Manager.
Ensure a structured hardware lifecycle process, including strategy development for component end-of-life and related product updates.
Establish governance models, development standards, and decision frameworks that scale.
Drive Agile, collaborative, and continuously improving delivery models.
Lead internal and external audits (ISO, NEMA, and other applicable certifications).
Build, inspire, and retain a high-performing engineering organization through coaching, empowerment, and succession planning.
Coordinate globally distributed teams to operate as one organization with shared goals and accountability.
Foster a culture of learning, inclusion, ethical leadership, and ownership.
Ensure robust testing strategies are embedded across development programs.
Champion automation, simulation, and modern testing practices to improve quality and cybersecurity.
Partner with Quality and Operations to deliver reliable, safe, and field-proven products.
Provide executive-level risk management and release readiness assessments.
Own R&D portfolio planning, budgets, and investment priorities.
Partner with Finance to evaluate business cases, manage spend, and maximize ROI.
Act as a strategic partner to Product Management, Solutions Delivery, Operations, Technical Sales, and Bid Management.
Represent senior technical leadership in major bids, customer engagements, and executive forums.
Lead critical (Level 3) customer support escalations and ensure timely resolution.
Capture lessons learned to continuously improve delivery and customer outcomes.