Senior Engineering Manager, Systems

Key Responsibilities

• Hire, level, and develop engineers across software, networking, RF, and hardware-adjacent debugging.
• Coach cross-layer debugging as a team capability.
• Personally profile systems and root-cause the most ambiguous or cross-cutting issues.
• Own System Health including performance, stability KPIs, MTTR, degradation detection, and related tooling/telemetry.
• Own crash-to-root-cause analysis and verification evidence for release go/no-go decisions.
• Treat security and CMMC-derived constraints as first-class design inputs.
• Catch gaps left by other teams before they become integration failures or field incidents.
• Translate field, customer, and BD requirements into team constraints.
• Represent Systems Engineering at cross-team design sessions and the Architecture Review Board; escalate system integrity and delivery risks.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience with substantial hands-on debugging of distributed, real-time, or multi-domain systems in production.
• 2+ years managing engineers, ideally across multiple technical domains.
• Proven track record as an expert debugger for the hardest, most ambiguous cross-system issues.
• Ability to think horizontally across software, RF, networking, firmware, and hardware, and vertically to root-cause failures.
• Experience owning system health, performance monitoring, or release-readiness processes.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals and real-time or low-latency middleware.
• Comfortable with hardware bench diagnostics (multimeter, oscilloscope) and reading firmware-level behavior.
• Working understanding of DoD security and compliance frameworks (e.g., CMMC) or ability to ramp quickly.
• U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain a security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling a cross-domain engineering team 2x+ in under a year.
• Background in defense, aerospace, or other mission-critical or regulated environments.
• Direct CMMC Level 2 (or similar) experience in systems engineering.
• Experience with embedded and edge-constrained systems (embedded Linux, RTOS, bare-metal).
• Familiarity with SIL and HIL pipelines and sim-to-field validation.
• Experience authoring or overseeing ICDs, requirements traceability, or MBSE artifacts.

Skills & Attributes

• Systems thinker comfortable across software, networking, RF, firmware, and hardware boundaries.
• Strong debugger and root-cause analyst with discipline to trace failures across layers.
• Effective team-builder and coach who can teach cross-domain judgment.
• Detail-oriented approach to system reliability, security, and release readiness.
• Collaborative across engineering, autonomy, and integration teams.
• Bias for action with ability to escalate gaps with clear options.
• Mission-driven with commitment to supporting national defense.

What We Offer

• Hybrid work environment.
• Competitive pay, including equity.
• Flexible time off and generous PTO policy.
• Federal holidays.
• Generous health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Free OneMedical membership.
• 401(k).
• Clear growth path with defined levels (L5 Technical Lead through L7 Senior Engineering Manager).