Senior Software Engineering Manager

Echodyne is seeking a high-caliber, product-minded Senior Software Engineering Manager who thrives in ambiguity and moves fast to build with real-world users in mind.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Our ideal candidate turns loosely defined problems into structured execution, guiding teams to deliver mission-critical capabilities under tight timelines. You should possess a strong technical foundation that allows you to shepherd innovation while ensuring systems integrate seamlessly into the ecosystem through thoughtful design and intuitive APIs. Most importantly, we need a builder of teams—someone dedicated to hiring top talent and fostering a culture of high performance and direct feedback. This role reports to the VP, Software & Firmware Engineering

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build & Grow: Directly lead the recruitment and onboarding of a technical team designed to support a fast-growing organization.
• Drive Execution: Own the end-to-end delivery process (requirements → design → execution → delivery) and ensure the team meets its commitments to the business and the customer.
• Shepherd Innovation: Drive system design for real-world environments—addressing edge deployment, security, and reliability—to ensure durability and high performance.
• Connect with the Field: Build end-to-end systems used in real missions, ensuring that field-user feedback is integrated into the technical roadmap.

REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

• Team Scaling & Leadership: At least 5 years of engineering management experience with a proven track record of hiring, managing, and scaling high-performance technical teams. You have a passion for developing engineers through active mentorship, coaching, and career growth.
• Strong Technical Foundation: Deep technical background with the ability to drive innovation across a tiered application stack. You should be familiar with modern programming languages and frameworks such as Rust, React, and Python.
• Architectural Depth: Solid understanding of software architecture composed of front-end, middleware, and complex integrations with external systems.
• Customer-Centric Delivery: Extensive experience working in companies focused on delivering customer-facing products. You have a clear history of taking ownership of the full lifecycle—from planning through delivery—ensuring software meets strict commitments.
• System Scaling: Direct experience building and scaling highly available, mission-critical systems.
• Operational Excellence: Experience elevating engineering standards, including design clarity, code quality, and pragmatic development practices.

DESIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE 
(Looking for one or more as a complement to the core skills) 

• Hiring Excellence: A clear and repeatable track record of identifying and recruiting technical talent in rapid-growth or R&D (0 → 1) environments.
• Strategic Execution: A strong bias toward action combined with sound engineering judgment; you operate with high autonomy and a relentless focus on outcomes.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Comfortable leading and collaborating across diverse disciplines, including research, hardware, software, and data science.
• Impact-Driven Mindset: You lead with a low-ego, high-ownership approach, prioritizing the mission and the user above all else.

Echodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations.  Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S. 

WHAT WE OFFER

This is an exempt role.