# Senior Engineering Manager, Systems

**Company:** [NODA AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/noda-ai)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Systems Engineering, Debugging, Root Cause Analysis, Networking, Rf, Firmware, Hardware Diagnostics, Dod Security, Cmmc, Embedded Systems, Rtos, Requirements Traceability, Mbse
**Posted:** 2026-07-10

> Senior Engineering Manager to build and lead the Systems Engineering team at NODA, ensuring system-level integrity for autonomous orchestration of heterogeneous unmanned systems. Hands-on role focused on cross-domain debugging, system health ownership, gap catching, and scaling the team in a defense/aerospace environment.

## Job Description

## 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).

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