Job Requirements
People Leadership
Team Health & Growth: Run regular, substantive 1-on-1s, career development plans, and honest, timely performance conversations for every engineer on the team.
Hiring & Staffing: Own recruiting, interviewing, and staffing plans for the software team as it grows toward its planned size.
Culture & Process: Establish and evolve team processes, including planning, ceremonies, and onboarding, appropriate to a growing engineering team.
Business Partnership: Represent the software team's priorities, constraints, and needs to business leadership, MPDE, FDE mechanical/electrical/controls/vision disciplines, Operations/Site ME, and IT/OT counterparts.
Hands-On Technical Contribution
Technical Credibility: Personally contribute code and technical work, up to roughly half your time depending on the phase the team is in. Treat this as a minimum level of hands-on technical involvement, and protect the people duties above even when technical work would fill more of your time.
Standards Partnership: Partner with the Staff Software Engineer to set and uphold engineering standards and best practices, including source control, automated testing, code review, secure development, and controlled software release.
Systems Foundation: In the team's current early phase, expect to spend meaningful time helping stand up baseline systems such as source control, CI/CD, requirements and interface tracking, reproducible builds, automated test, release/versioning, and the team's development tooling, including its approach to AI-assisted development. This may reduce hands-on coding time in the near term in service of the team's longer-term technical health
What your background should look like
Education: BS or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience: Typically 10+ years in software development, including experience operating at the Senior or Staff Software Engineer level, plus demonstrated interest in and aptitude for people leadership. Formal management experience is a plus but not required.
Leadership Foundation: Has coached, mentored, or informally led other engineers, and genuinely wants people development to be the center of the job.
Software Development Practices: Strong personal grounding in version control, testing, and software lifecycle management, sufficient to hold an informed technical conversation with the Staff Software Engineer as a peer.
Core Leadership Competencies
People Development: Skilled at structured feedback, coaching, and difficult performance conversations.
Hiring & Staffing: Able to assess technical talent, run a fair interview process, and build a staffing plan against real team needs.
Process & Delivery: Comfortable running sprint or iteration planning, tracking delivery, and reporting transparently on progress and risk.
Technical Fluency: Enough hands-on technical background in automation, machine/station software, or industrial systems to understand and direct the actual substance of the team's work.
Preferred Qualifications
Team Leadership: Prior experience managing or informally leading a small (5-10 person) engineering team.
Process Ownership: Experience standing up or substantially maturing engineering process, such as source control, CI/CD, or requirements tracking, in a team that previously had little or none.
Domain Exposure: Background in, or direct exposure to, manufacturing, industrial automation, or hardware-adjacent software.
Cross-Discipline Partnership: Experience partnering with MPDE/process engineering, mechanical, electrical/controls, vision, Operations/Site ME, or IT/OT security disciplines.
Competencies
SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)
ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY
TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.
Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
COMPENSATION
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $194,400 - $250,000 (subject to change dependent on physical location)
- Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
- Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits
BENEFITS
A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.
EOE, Including Disability/Vets
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Job Locations
Posting City
Rochester
Job Country
United States
Travel Required
Less than 10%
Requisition ID
159920
Workplace Type
Onsite
External Careers Page
Engineering & Technology
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