Director of Engineering

This position is an excellent opportunity for a dynamic leader with strategic vision. Priorities include a focus on growing talent and execution against priorities.

This is an in-office position; the selected candidate will be required to work out of our Waterloo, Ontario office.

• Accountable for engineering across the full product lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery of products that meet defined functional, cost, schedule, performance, quality, and reliability objectives.
• Promote a culture of technical excellence and innovation, encouraging experimentation, learning, and the application of emerging technologies into commercially viable products.
• Articulate the strategic vision and provide inspirational leadership to the engineering team and instill a sense of urgency and intense customer focus.
• Partner with Product, Manufacturing, Service, Quality, Sales, and leadership to convert company strategy into executable technical roadmaps.
• Provide clear, concise reporting updates to the General Manager and leadership teams as required.
• Develop and maintain departmental budgets.
• Perform other related duties to benefit the organization.

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience, Masters or PhD preferred. MBA is beneficial.
• Background in AI, computer vision/robotics or calibration algorithms is beneficial.
• Proven leadership of multi-disciplinary engineering organizations.
• Strong systems thinking across complex products involving software, hardware, mechanical, electrical, optical, quality, and manufacturing.
• Excellent execution discipline: able to convert strategy into priorities, roadmaps, staffing plans, budgets, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Credible technical judgment: able to ask strong questions, assess tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and guide practical engineering decisions.
• Demonstrable ability to implement products using artificial intelligence.

Salary Range: CAD $ – $
Incentive Program: Yes

Virtek encourages applications from all qualified candidates. Accommodations are available upon request. If you need an accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us .