Software Engineering Manager
Secon Order EffectsEl Segundo, California
Full Time
Posted October 23, 2025
$157k - $194k
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Job Description
A Software Engineering Manager responsible for leading and mentoring software engineering teams across multiple locations, ensuring the delivery of high-quality embedded and systems software solutions while fostering collaboration, process improvement, and professional growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support the software engineering team across multiple offices.
- Ensure successful project delivery by defining technical scope and success criteria.
- Manage, mentor, and develop software engineers to align with business goals.
- Set performance expectations and effectively resource team members for multiple projects.
- Establish standards, processes, and best practices for software and embedded system design.
- Collaborate with leadership to identify growth opportunities within the software team.
- Leverage technical expertise to support ongoing software development efforts.
- Communicate technical information effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
- Evaluate and manage project risks, including scope creep and critical requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Science, Physics, Systems Engineering, or related field
- 7 years of experience in a software engineering and hardware development role for aerospace, industrial automation, and/or robotics, especially for tightly coupled systems
- 5 years of progressively impactful software engineering leadership roles
- Previous experience in both a people management and engineering design leadership role
- Aptitude for cross functional community building and collaboration with mechanical, electrical, systems, and test engineers to improve the output of the software engineering team
- Expertise in successfully executing end-to-end embedded system design from requirements generation through software bring-up
- Proven hands-on experience designing and implementing software development processes including SDLC, SecDevOps, CI/CD, and evaluating, selecting, and configuring supporting toolchains and infrastructure to establish scalable development workflows
- Strong communication skills with the ability to synthesize and communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to evaluate and manage project risk, including scope creep, remediating missing critical requirements, and ensuring that technical challenges are sufficiently addressed
- Applicant must be willing to work 40 hours a week on-site at either the Redmond, Washington or El Segundo, California facility
- Applicant must be eligible to work on export controlled projects under U.S. Government export control regulations
- Applicant must be willing to travel monthly to the other office
Benefits & Perks
Compensation range of 156,840-193,820
Flexible work hours and work from home policy
100% employer-paid health insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision for employees with 50 dependent coverage)
Unlimited paid time off policy
11 paid company holidays
12 paid sick days
401(k) retirement account with employer matching
Generous paid parental leave
Relocation assistance available if 50 miles away from the office
Daily catered lunches, snacks, and accessible kitchen
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