Divisional Director, Engineering

Senstar has been safeguarding people places and property for more than 45 years and today stands as the worlds leading provider of perimeter intrusion detection and video management solutions building the broadest security portfolio in the industry (fiber optic and buried sensors AI powered video analytics access control) designed manufactured and tested in North America. With over 50000 kilometers of perimeter sensors deployed and more than 25000 video management installations across 100-plus countries and backed by three dedicated R&D centers the worlds largest private test facility of its kind and a global network of service centers and partners Senstar protects the critical infrastructure energy corrections transportation and logistics sites that keep the world moving detecting threats early and cutting risk for organizations everywhere.

Scope of the Position

This is a senior leadership role responsible for the full breadth of Senstars engineering organization: the hardware and embedded sensor team behind the perimeter intrusion detection portfolio. The leader will own end to end delivery across custom hardware embedded software signal processing and will report directly to the Chief Technology Officer.

This is a hands-on motivational leadership role for someone who can build credibility with senior specialists who can shape the organization into a high performing energetic and motivated group that drives the technology roadmap and participates at the executive level.

The Team

The combined organization totals roughly a dozen people. The sensor engineering group including an embedded software development manager senior hardware and RF or optical design engineers verification staff and a design services function. The leader will also partner through influence rather than direct authority with a principal systems architect who holds cross-system design authority for the sensor line.

Key Responsibilities

Sensor Hardware and Embedded Engineering

• Own end to end delivery of the sensor product portfolio across hardware design embedded software signal processing and verification

• Lead an engineering organization that includes development managers senior individual contributors and early career staff

• Drive execution of the next-generation perimeter intrusion detection platform while sustaining and supporting fielded products through long product lifecycles

• Balance new product development against sustaining engineering field escalations and manufacturing support making the trade-offs explicit

• Partner with the systems architect who owns cross-system design authority for the sensor line; the architect is accountable for the design itself while this leader is accountable for delivery staffing and execution

• Own planning and roadmap commitments with Product Management including estimation resourcing and make-or-buy decisions

• Oversee the design services and documentation interface into manufacturing including design-for-manufacture and regulatory or compliance requirements

• Own quality outcomes for the sensor line including escalation and resolution of complex field issues spanning hardware firmware and installation environments

• Establish engineering standards design review practices and delivery discipline across hardware and embedded software

Organizational and People Leadership

• Develop people deliberately: coach a first-time development manager progress a technical lead toward formal team leadership and advance early-career engineers into independent development roles

• Manage senior long-tenured individual contributors who need technical engagement and prioritization rather than close supervision

• Lead across sites since both the engineering team and the customer base are distributed

• Coach direct reports on cultivating and enhancing strong relationships with key customers

• Collaborate with other engineering managers on a common vision across products and solutions

• Serve as a trusted point of contact for internal Sales and Marketing teams on product functionality competitive comparisons and implementations

• Recruit and retain senior engineering talent in competitive hardware and software markets

• Proven engineering leadership across both hardware and software disciplines including managing other managers within an organization of comparable scale

• Deep technical grounding in at least one core sensor domain (embedded systems signal processing RF electro-optics/photonics or electronics design) or equivalent sufficient to hold credibility with senior specialists on either side

• Experience delivering products end to end from concept through design verification certification or release and field support

• A track record of developing engineers and managers including growing first-time managers technical leads and early-career staff

• Demonstrated ability to lead senior individual contributors and to work effectively alongside architect-level peers who are not direct reports

• Experience leading distributed or multi-site engineering teams

• Strong delivery and planning discipline including estimation prioritization and predictable execution across parallel hardware and software work streams

• A degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field with seven to ten years of experience leading technology product development and product architecture

Nice to Have

• Experience with perimeter security physical security defence or other safety- and security-critical products

• Experience with fiber-optic sensing distributed acoustic sensing radar/microwave detection or similar sensing technologies

• Familiarity with regulatory certification for electronic products (for example CE FCC UL) and design-for-manufacture practices

• Experience with Scrum and other Agile methodologies

Competency Profile

Motivating

Encourages others by creating enthusiasm a feeling of investment and a desire to excel; inspires others to follow and recognizes positive contributions.

Visioning

Imagines future possibilities thinks broadly investigates a wide range of alternatives and communicates a clear vision to others.

Results Orientation

Focuses strongly on achieving agreed-upon outcomes conveys a sense of urgency and drives issues to closure.

Leading Change

Recognizes when change is necessary challenges the status quo and develops effective action plans to carry it out.