Driven by a commitment to improving lives, WSA seeks to reinforce its leadership in the hearing aid market by expanding penetration in underserved segments and accelerating the business transformation to reach more people more effectively.

The Head of Platform Abstraction & Software System Integration owns the strategy and governance of hardware-abstraction layers, middleware, and platform services to decouple hardware from the Digital Ecosystem. He/She will lead end-to-end software system integration across Platform, B2B, and B2C domains, establish a staged CI/CD model and a Software Factory to monitor health and progress, and drive cross-functional collaboration, quality, security, and compliance to deliver a cohesive, scalable, and reliable software system across device generations and product lines.

Key responsibilities:

• Platform Abstraction & Middleware Leadership: define strategy for HAL, middleware, APIs, and shared services; ensure scalable, hardware-agnostic interfaces; own release for the Platform Abstraction & Middleware layer.

• End-to-End Software System Integration: lead integration of Platform, B2B, and B2C components; define integration architecture, dependency management, and system alignment; ensure interoperability across firmware, middleware, cloud, mobile apps, and third parties; establish governance for readiness.

• CI/CD & Build Infrastructure: create/maintain a staged CI pipeline from unit tests to full system release; define automated quality gates and regression safeguards; ensure reliable build automation aligned with test organizations.

• Software Factory Operations: build and run the Software Factory with processes, monitoring, dashboards, and alerts; track integration health, stability, debt, and release readiness; drive transparency and predictability.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: partner with stakeholders across teams; align architectures, timelines, and interfaces; serve as escalation point for cross-domain issues.

• Quality, Security & Compliance: ensure secure-by-design practices; align with QA/system tests on global quality KPIs; drive continuous improvement and architectural stability.

What you bring

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or an equivalent field.

• 10+ years in embedded systems, middleware/platform engineering, or system integration.

• Proven track record leading software platform teams or integration organizations.

• Demonstrated ability to establish CI/CD pipelines and manage complex, multi-domain build and test processes.

• Experience integrating embedded, cloud, mobile, and B2B/B2C systems is preferred.

• Deep knowledge of hardware abstraction, middleware frameworks, platform APIs, and system-level architecture.

• DevOps and quality: Expertise in CI/CD systems, build automation, integration pipelines, and software quality monitoring.

• Experience with embedded OSes (RTOS, Linux), distributed cloud architectures, and mobile app ecosystems.

• Proficiency with integration tooling, automation frameworks, and modern DevOps practices.

What we offer

Who we are

Our products - help millions of people regain their hearing and quality of life. This is what drives us every day!

Our social responsibility - sustainability is not just an idea for us, it is part of our business purpose. Together with you, we can continue to make the world a better place!

Creative freedom - your ideas are welcome and you can try out new solutions.

Individual responsibility - you can actively shape, decide and, most importantly, move things forward with us.

Personal development - trying, learning and reflecting are part of our DNA.

Internationality - as a global player, you will have the opportunity to work with colleagues in different parts of the world.

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.

Department

Research & Development

Role

Software & Digital Solutions

Locations

Erlangen, Germany

Employment type

Full-time

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