Summary

As an Engineering Manager, Embedded Robotics, you lead the team that builds, tests, and ships the software running on our mobile robotics platforms. You are responsible for the velocity, quality, and technical health of the embedded software team—and for growing the people inside it. You operate at the intersection of technical depth and team leadership: you understand the code and the systems well enough to make sound calls, and you create the conditions for your engineers to do their best work.

Duties

Manage, mentor, and grow a team of embedded software engineers and test engineers building and verifying software for UAV, UGV, and USV platforms
Own delivery of the embedded software roadmap—plan sprints, manage dependencies, remove blockers, and hold the team accountable to commitments
Drive technical standards and practices across the team: code review rigor, test coverage expectations, branching and release strategies, CI/CD pipeline health
Partner with systems engineering, hardware,



and product leadership to translate product and mission requirements into concrete engineering plans and milestones
Make build-vs-buy and architectural decisions alongside senior engineers, ensuring the team invests effort where it creates the most leverage
Own the team's CI/CD and test infrastructure strategy—ensure SITL/HITL rigs, Jenkins pipelines, and multi-site fixtures remain reliable, quick, and fit for purpose as the product scales
Manage engineering operations across distributed offices: coordinate hardware resources, test fixture availability, and lab access so that geography is not a bottleneck
Recruit, interview, and hire embedded software and test engineers—build a team that can operate at the level the mission demands
Run effective 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations; identify and address underperformance early and directly
Establish and track engineering metrics (cycle time, defect escape rate, CI pass rate, test coverage) that giv

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