Director Of Software Engineering

Director, Software Engineering – System, Test & Portfolio Location: India, Chennai (On-site, No Hybrid) Company: Advantest Test Solutions (ATS) Position Overview We are seeking a Site Leader for Software Engineering to lead Software + Hardware System Integration, Product Development, Program Engineering, Handler, Test Engineering, and Portfolio Engineering for semiconductor test platforms supporting SLT, Burn-In, HPC, and ATE. The role leads multiple India teams (40+) responsible for equipment-control software, material handling integration, test engineering, factory interfaces, production data, and shared software capabilities. This position is expected to be highly technical and hands-on with software and hardware, with approximately 30% of time spent directly on coding, debugging, and solving complex technical issues across the semiconductor test ecosystem. The position will have dual reporting. BU/functional reports to VP of Software & Technology and Organizational will report directly India Management. Key Responsibilities • Translate engineering strategy into engineering plans, technical milestones, resource plans, and delivery schedules. • Lead software managers, technical leads, developers, and test engineers across Thermal, System Integration, Handler, Test, and Portfolio Engineering. • Drive execution across multiple products and customer programs and ensure teams deliver committed milestones. • Align software development, integration, validation, and release schedules with SW Product Management and Hardware TPMs. • Lead software integration across testers, handlers, thermal systems, device interfaces, PLCs, firmware, and equipment-control systems. • Lead development of communication interfaces for material handling, factory automation, and factory management systems. • Lead GEM/SECS, EAC/EAP, lot of processing, alarms, availability reporting, equipment telemetry, and production data capabilities. • Lead automated validation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, regression, endurance testing, system qualification, and production readiness. • Improve throughput, reliability, availability, recovery, and downtime through system performance analysis. • Drive reuse and standardization of APIs, SDKs, messaging, data models, logging, diagnostics, and common software components. • Ensure customer requirements are implemented as scalable, configurable product capabilities. • Track milestones, dependencies, risks, quality, integration of readiness, and release criteria across the portfolio. • Improve software development, testing, validation, and release processes. • Coordinate execution with Product Management, Program Management, Business Development, Hardware, Firmware, QA, Production, Applications, and Product Support. • Lead adoption of AI-assisted software development, testing, diagnostics, and documentation. • Conduct architecture, design, integration, and release-readiness reviews. • Present technical and program-readiness reviews to customers and internal leadership. • Support customer technical discussions, system bring-up, escalations, and production deployments. • Conduct performance reviews, set goals, mentor leaders, and support succession planning.