R&D Director India Software Lab

If you want to directly shape the future, this is your opportunity! Advantest is one of the world’s leading providers of automatic test equipment for the semiconductor industry. We work closely together with leading companies in the most exciting and emerging markets. Almost any modern AI, cloud, or embedded system is based on semiconductor devices that have been tested with our products.

We are looking for an R&D Director (m/f/d) for our new India SW Lab. The India SW Lab aims to participate in growth and momentum of the Indian semiconductor ecosystem and to advance our products and solutions as a core component of the global Advantest R&D organization. In the position of the R&D Director India SW Lab (m/f/d) you will lead all technical aspects for setting up, growing and constantly delivery results for our India SW Lab. The India SW Lab will play a key role in the global Advantest R&D organization.

This role is intended for technical leaders with experience building and growing SW development teams with a strong focus on technology, trends, and technical guidance of the individual teams. It is onsite only in Bangalore, India.

What you will do as an R&D Director India SW Lab (m/f/d):

• Build and lead the engineering aspects of the India Software Lab: hire, develop, and retain senior engineers and engineering leaders; set a high hiring bar and strong engineering culture
• Provide technical leadership: drive architecture/design reviews, unblock complex technical issues, and coach teams in day-to-day engineering execution
• Establish scalable engineering standards: code quality, CI/CD, test automation, reliability, observability, and secure development practices
• Cooperation with Advantest BUs – ensure delivery of working packages by India SW lab according to defined success criteria
• Build a partner strategy in India with clear quality gates and accountability
• Advise on technical strategy considering the ecosystem in India

Essential Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in SW, high tech, semiconductor industries
• Engineering leadership: Demonstrated experience of building and leading engineering organizations (hiring, coaching, developing leaders, performance management).
• Hands-on technical depth: Ability to personally assess architecture and design, guide implementation approaches, and raise the engineering culture with focus on getting things done with high quality
• Engineering efficiency: Proven ability to establish operating mechanisms that scale (planning cadences, metrics, governance, cross-team dependency management).
• Cross-org collaboration: Experience aligning multiple stakeholders and translating demand into tangible actions and outcomes
• Communication: Ability to discuss complex topics with stakeholders based on facts and to align globally distributed teams

• Strong written/verbal communication in English
• Flexibility to travel to other locations in India and world-wide Advantest locations. International travel is not frequently required

Preferred Qualifications:

• India market expertise: In-depth understanding of India’s software market and ecosystem
• Strong experience in SW for complex embedded systems covering the full stack from HW to cloud
• Semiconductor / test / EDA knowledge: Experience with semiconductor software, test ecosystems, EDA/DFT communities
• Partner cooperation: Strong track record managing external engineering partnerships
• Products & Platforms: Experience building products, developer platforms/tooling in a scaled engineering environment.
• Experience working in scaled agile or large engineering organizations
• Experience in regulated environments (e.g. automotive, medical, aerospace)

German and/or Japanese and/or Chinese language skills are a plus