Senior R&D Manager, Smart Devices

About the role

Vocera now a part of Stryker is looking for Senior Technical R&D Manager is sought to lead the Embedded OS and UX team responsible for creating dependable, intuitive, and maintainable device platforms. This role combines people leadership with technical direction across Yocto Linux and/or Android OS, board support packages, system services, device integration, and user experience.

What you'll do

• Lead the design and implementation of embedded OS platform architecture using Yocto Linux and/or Android OS, aligning platform choices with product, hardware, security
• Own the team roadmap, architectural direction, technical debt strategy, and delivery plans for platform, middleware, device integration, and embedded UX capabilities
• Provide technical leadership across board support packages, bootloaders, Linux kernel configuration, device drivers, hardware abstraction layers, system services
• Partner with Product, UX, Hardware, Systems, Quality, and Security teams to translate customer workflows into coherent, responsive, and accessible device experiences
• Establish reproducible build and release practices, including source control, code review, continuous integration, automated validation, artifact traceability

What you need

• 15–27 yrs of experience
• Git
• Linux
• Android
• CI/CD
• Agile
• Performance management
• B.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or BCA

Good to have

• Python
• Java
• C++
• C
• Kotlin
• Talent management