Job Overview:

Vantiva seeks an experienced Software Senior Manager to lead a team of engineers that develops software and manages customer engagements covering a wide range of Connected Home’s Cable and Telco Broadband Gateways for the worldwide market. In addition, software architecture design/review across multiple platforms will be part of the critical role you play at Vantiva, as our product portfolio diversifies across multiple hardware platforms.

In this challenging role in Broadband PDU, you will be responsible for collaborating with team members to develop software features associated with Multi-Services IP Gateways, and Smart Home Gateways that are sold in the Service Provider market. You will need to work with and coordinate the efforts of both internal and external (ODC/ODM) resources based in North America, Europe, and Asia. You will need to contribute to overall product design from a software architecture perspective, keeping in mind multiple customer requirements and hardware characteristics across various platforms.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Experience with RDK-B Routing Stacks and Yacto.
• Work with engineering, product management, business development, and account managers to champion the needs of key customers.
• Contribute to product design discussions on overall software feature/interop compatibility across different platforms.
• Have the necessary technical skills to communicate the details of complex Data, VoIP, Gateway, Wi-Fi, and Video features.
• Communicate regularly with key customers to manage expectations regarding key software deliverables.
• Drive and manage product qualification and post-sales issues that could impact the business.
• Communicate regularly with customer engineering teams and operations to de-risk deployment issues that will affect deployments of Vantiva products.
• Facilitate customer feedback into the development and customer engagement process.
• The position requires an experienced manager with strong technical and communication skills

Industry Experience:

15+ years of industry experience as described above. Prior experience with software development of complex systems is a MUST. Experience in working with large NSP/MSOs is preferred.

Mandatory Qualification:

• Wide experience on RDK - B
• Experience on Yacto
• Excellent C programming skills
• Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems (Linux, eCOS)
• Experience in the layers of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) model of networking especially L2 & L3 and IP Networking protocols
• Experience in DOCSIS specifications, protocols, test procedures, and debugging (D3.0, D3.1)
• Experience in PacketCable 1.5 and 2.0 specifications, protocols, test procedures, and debugging.
• Hands-on development experience on Cable Modems, Residential Gateways and EMTAs
• Preferred stack experience: Broadcom SDKs, OpenBFC, CCSP
• Debug skills covering: IP networking, MGCP/NCS and SIP signaling protocols, DNS, DHCP, TFTP, RTP, routers and routing protocols, data load testing, and redundant / fault tolerant configurations.
• Good communication skills. Email communication and documentation should be clear and crisp

Preferred Qualifications:

• IP Networking protocols (IPv4, IPv6, RIPv2, SNMP, DHCP, TFTP, FTP, TCP, UDP).
• Fiber (xPON), DOCSIS, 5G, WiFi specifications protocols, test procedures, and debugging.
• VoIP system architectures and network elements.
• Home Networking Protocols (HNAP, uPNP, RIPv2, TR69, etc)
• Wireless (802.11b/g/n/ac/ax) including wireless encryption (WPA2, WPA, WEP), WPS, DFS, and WMM
• Agile (Scrum) Development Methodology
• Programming languages: C, C++, Java
• Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems (Linux, eCOS)
• Debug skills covering: IP networking, MGCP/NCS and SIP signaling protocols, DNS, DHCP, TFTP, RTP, Video, routers and routing protocols, data load testing, and redundant / fault tolerant configurations.