Manager, Engineering
Lead a team of engineers responsible for integrating, validating, and scaling the Hivemind autonomy platform across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight environments. Requires 7+ years experience, technical leadership in integration and test, and hands-on expertise with autonomy stacks, Python/C++, and ROS.
About the job
What you'll do
- Mentor, and develop a team of engineers focused on software integration, system validation, and developer experience.
- Establish team priorities, drive execution, and foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Actively contribute to system integration, validation, and debugging activities and develop deep expertise in our autonomy stack.
- Guide the architecture and implementation of integration frameworks, deployment workflows, and configuration management tools that streamline validation across Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), and flight environments.
- Review system logs, telemetry, and rosbag data to diagnose integration defects.
- Lead cross-functional investigations, establish corrective actions, and create tooling that accelerates debugging and issue resolution.
- Ensure integrated capabilities meet product requirements and interface specifications.
Required qualifications
- Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree in CS, Comp Eng, Robotics, or a related field; or 6 years and a master’s degree; or 4 years with a PhD.
- Proficiency in programming languages including Python or C++.
- Experience with autonomous systems or middleware.
- Demonstrated experience designing integration workflows, communicating system dependencies, and triaging and reporting integration defects across subsystem boundaries.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of collaborating effectively across various teams and presenting to customers or technical leadership.
- Experience leading software integration engineers and owning integration roadmaps and release schedules.
Preferred qualifications
- Demonstrated experience building complex systems with a strong understanding of software architecture and design principles.
- Experience with hardware or embedded systems.
- Expert knowledge of Python.
- Experience with ROS.
- Experience with white box testing.
- Familiarity with networking, operating-systems, and radio communications.
- Experience supporting customer applications.
Skills
Python, C++, ROS, Autonomous Systems, Middleware, Software Integration, System Validation, Hardware-In-The-Loop, Software-In-The-Loop, Debugging, Software Architecture
Similar jobs
Engineering Management jobs
Crusoe
Denver, CO
Leads commissioning programs across multiple data center projects, managing commissioning teams, third-party agents, and stakeholder coordination from pre-functional testing through turnover. Requires 10+ years of mission-critical commissioning experience, 5+ years of leadership, engineering knowledge, and a bachelor’s degree.
LegitScript
United States
Leads a hands-on platform engineering team responsible for AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes deployment paths, developer self-service, CI/CD governance, reliability, and audit readiness. The role requires deep infrastructure experience, Terraform expertise, production Kubernetes operations, and people leadership.
Shield AI
San Diego, CALeads a hands-on Shared Services Engineering team building and operating reusable services, SDKs, APIs, and customer-facing systems. Requires 7+ years of software engineering experience, engineering management experience, and strong technical judgment across distributed and full-stack systems.
Forge
New York, NYLeads Forge’s Site Reliability Engineering team, overseeing availability, incident response, observability, production operations, and reliability practices. Requires substantial infrastructure or software engineering experience, people leadership, and expertise with cloud platforms and operational tooling.
BuildOps
San Francisco, CALeads the architecture and development of BuildOps’ integration and data platform, driving technical strategy, reliability, APIs, databases, and engineering standards across multiple teams. Requires 10+ years of software engineering experience and deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.