Software Engineering Manager (Factory Platform)

Join the Terrestrial Software team as a Software Engineering Manager (Factory Platform). You will lead a squad building mission-critical tooling for design and simulation engineers, delivering the engineering analysis platform, design tools, and data pipelines. You will work directly with propulsion, structures, avionics, and test engineers to understand their workflows and build software that accelerates their ability to iterate, validate, and improve the vehicle. You will also hire, grow, and manage a team of 5-10 engineers, set team roadmap and priorities, establish engineering standards, guide architectural decisions, and build a high-performing culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

• Lead a squad building mission-critical tooling for design and simulation engineers, delivering the engineering analysis platform, design tools, and data pipelines.
• Hire, grow, and manage a team of 5-10 engineers, setting team roadmap and priorities in partnership with design and test engineering stakeholders.
• Establish engineering standards, guide architectural decisions, and build a high-performing culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Strong hiring, retention, and talent development track record
• 7+ years prior software engineering experience
• 3+ years engineering management experience with direct reports (5-10+ team size)
• Bachelor's or higher in CS or related engineering field
• Excellent communication: technical tradeoffs, strategy docs, feedback, influence
• Full-stack technical foundation (frontend and backend)
• Experience managing managers or multiple teams
• Familiarity with simulation, CAD/CAE, or test data systems
• Background in engineering analysis tools, scientific computing, or data-intensive applications
• DevOps, MLOps, or data platform engineering background
• Aerospace, automotive, or hardware-driven industry experience
• Strong written and verbal communication - you can write a crisp design doc and also give useful, timely feedback to a struggling engineer
• Proven track record hiring, retaining, and developing engineers
• Comfortable driving architectural decisions and building buy-in across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
• 5+ years of software engineering experience across multiple production systems
• Fluent in at least one backend language (Go, Python) and willing to range across the stack
• Bachelor's or higher in CS or a related engineering field
• Expert in React and modern frontend tooling