Engineering Manager (Axion)

Join the Axion team as an Engineering Manager, where you will lead a cross-functional engineering group to deliver high-impact autonomy toolchain capabilities. You will drive engineering execution, mentor and grow a team of engineers, define technical roadmaps, and collaborate closely with product, operations, hardware/integration teams, and defense customers. Your work will influence the architecture, scalability, performance, and field-readiness of Axion products.

• Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team to deliver high-impact autonomy toolchain capabilities.
• Define and own the technical roadmap for your area, translating product vision into deliverables and ensuring alignment with overall Axion strategy.
• Drive software engineering best practices, manage project execution, and collaborate with product management and UX/design to refine requirements.
• Skilled in mentoring and growing engineers: recruiting, performance management, career development, building high-performing teams
• Proven experience (e.g., 3 – 5+ years) in software engineering roles with increasing responsibility, and at least 1 – 2 years in a leadership role (team lead, manager) delivering complex systems
• Strong technical background: architecture, design, implementation and delivery of large-scale, high-performance software systems (ideally simulation, real-time, autonomy, robotics, or hardware integration)
• US citizenship. You must already have or be eligible to receive an active US Top Secret security clearance upon onboarding to this role
• Experience managing full software development lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (advanced degree preferred)
• Comfort in a fast-paced, highly-ambiguous environment; ability to make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, and scalability
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills: able to work cross-functionally with product, UX/design, hardware/integration, operations, senior leadership
• Experience in autonomy, robotics, simulation or unmanned systems (air/land/sea) and tool-chain development
• Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles
• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture/design of modular, scalable software systems with high performance constraints
• Familiarity with real-time systems, sensor fusion, hardware/software integration, HIL/SIL testing, cloud infrastructure, large datasets
• Familiarity with multi-domain systems (e.g., air/land/sea/spectrum) and heterogeneous fleets/platforms