Chief Technology Officer

Position overview

Key responsibilities

• Define architecture, product roadmap, engineering priorities, technical standards, technology selections, and resource and budget plans with the CEO.
• Lead and develop the engineering organization, including recruitment, technical ownership, people development, performance management, and resource allocation.
• Lead complex software, electronics, and embedded programs through definition, feasibility, architecture, development, integration, validation, release, manufacturing support, and maintenance.
• Lead embedded and hardware/software co-development, including MCU/FPGA/ARM/SoC platforms, board integration, low-level software, drivers/HAL, bring-up, debugging, and production issue resolution.
• Lead technical engagement with Mandarin-speaking customers, manufacturing operations, and engineering partners, including requirements, design reviews, integration, coordination, and escalations.
• Advance engineering automation and applied AI with appropriate validation, security, reliability controls, and human oversight.
• Establish project, development, quality, and risk practices; monitor delivery and report progress, risks, resources, and investment needs to the CEO.
• Participate in international customer, partner, factory, and project-site activities as required.

Required qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, or a closely related technical discipline.
• At least 15 years of relevant technology and product-development experience, including large-scale, cross-functional, internationally distributed R&D.
• At least 6 years managing multidisciplinary engineering teams and experience building or substantially scaling an engineering organization.
• Track record leading technically complex international programs across disciplines and countries, with responsibility for architecture, delivery, quality, and technical risk.
• Strong embedded and systems-engineering background including Linux, processor/SoC/MCU platforms, hardware/software integration, low-level interfaces, drivers/HAL, and debugging.
• Experience delivering demanding international customer programs, developing tailored solutions, resolving major issues, and applying mature project, development, quality, and release practices.
• Practical experience applying modern AI-assisted development or agent technologies in real workflows, including integration, validation, assessment, and human oversight.
• Advanced professional English for international meetings, technical and business discussions, customer coordination, and documentation; approximately CEFR C1 or equivalent.
• Professional working Mandarin for technical requirements discussions, design reviews, coordination, factory/system integration, escalations, and issue resolution.

Preferred qualifications

• Interdisciplinary expertise combining electrical/electronic engineering with intelligent systems, automation, computing, or AI.
• Hands-on experience with ARM, STM32 or comparable MCUs, FPGA systems, board/peripheral integration, JTAG/SWD, TRACE32 or comparable debug environments, and commercial software integration.
• Experience in automotive electronics, mobile computing, semiconductor platforms, industrial/manufacturing systems, or marine technologies; multimedia, audio/video, DSP, or graphics expertise is advantageous.
• Advanced AI engineering involving coding agents, workflow integration, reliability and security controls, optimization, and organization-wide adoption.
• Engineering-management experience in a large international technology company and exposure to mature global project, quality, and customer-delivery practices.