Firmware & Electrical Engineering Manager

About the Role Join us as a Firmware & Electrical Engineering Manager and help build the team behind our products, not just the roadmap. You'll lead a group of Firmware and Electrical Engineers — developing their careers, reviewing designs, and staying close enough to the technical details to unblock hard problems — while setting the technical bar for the hardware that goes into every device we ship.

Where You'll Work This is a hybrid role based out of our Porto office, with an expected average of 3 days per week on-site — reflecting the hands-on nature of leading a team through active builds, bring-up, and EVT/DVT/PVT work.

Job Duties and Responsibilities Reporting to the Senior Hardware Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of Firmware and Electrical Engineers, owning both the people and the technical outcomes across active product lines and new development.

Lead and develop the team

• Foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous growth.

• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations; set clear goals and provide meaningful feedback.

Drive engineering excellence

• Champion structured engineering workflows and drive process improvements to those workflows.

• Oversee team contributions to 8D investigations, component lifecycle management, design changes for active product lines, and new product development.

• Provide technical guidance and support decision-making to ensure high-quality engineering outputs.

Own delivery and coordination

• Manage team capacity, workload distribution, and resource planning; partner with project managers on schedule, risks, issue tracking, and communication. Serve as project manager for some active projects or sub-initiatives.

• Coordinate closely within the FW/EE group and with other engineering teams to ensure co-design is tightly coordinated, interfaces are defined, issues are resolved in a timely manner, and full solution design is delivered for EVT/DVT/PVT builds.

What You'll Need to Succeed Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years in electrical engineering, embedded firmware engineering, or combined EE/FW roles — a strong fit for either an existing engineering manager with EE depth, or a seasoned electrical engineer ready to step into formal leadership.

• Strong communication and technical documentation skills.

• Leadership experience — formally or informally — across projects or teams, with demonstrated ability to influence outcomes, develop others, drive engineering decisions, and deliver initiatives cross-functionally.

• Comfortable working cross-functionally in fast-paced hardware development cycles (EVT/DVT/PVT).

• Strong experience with microcontrollers, embedded C/C++, board bring-up, power systems, and debugging tools (oscilloscopes, JTAG, logic analyzers).

• Experience with embedded firmware development or close collaboration with firmware engineers; sufficient depth to provide meaningful technical direction.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing a team through a full product lifecycle, from NPD through sustaining and end-of-life.

• Exposure to leading or closely partnering across multiple engineering disciplines (e.g., mechanical, industrial design, quality, manufacturing test).

• Experience owning schedule and risk for cross-functional initiatives, beyond your own team's scope.

ABOUT ANOVA 

We are very proudly “one” Anova — built by integrating the best in IIoT technology and expertise. Anova monitors more than 1,250,000 assets across nearly 80 countries for over 2000 clients, from family businesses to the largest LPG, Industrial Gases, and chemicals companies in the world. Our scale is global. Our service is local. We partner directly with customers, taking a holistic approach and delivering tailored solutions that drive innovation and improvement and make our world safer, more efficient, and reliable. 

 

We believe that rewarding work should reward you. As part of Anova, your work, integrity, and commitment are rewarded through competitive compensation and reward strategies, through sincere appreciation, and through opportunities for growth and advancement. We put people first by providing benefits that support your life and well-being, from health and finance to recognition and reward, and so much more — we've got you covered. 

If this sounds like a fit for you, apply to join Anova in connecting the industrial world — for better.

For more information about how Anova is transforming the Industrial IOT industry, visit us at Anova.com.