Software Engineering Manager
Secon Order EffectsRedmond, Washington
Full Time
Posted February 2, 2026
$160k - $198k
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Job Description
A Software Engineering Manager at SOE leads and manages embedded software development teams, making technical decisions, ensuring quality and delivery, and collaborating across disciplines to solve complex engineering challenges in aerospace and related fields.
Key Responsibilities
- Own software technical decisions and outcomes across projects, managing design tradeoffs, risks, and delivery challenges
- Lead, mentor, and manage the software engineering team, setting performance expectations and developing technical and leadership skills
- Provide hands-on technical guidance throughout the embedded software development lifecycle
- Partner with business and project leaders to define technical scope, plans, and success criteria
- Establish standards, processes, and best practices to improve software design quality and efficiency
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
- 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 such as SDLC, SecDevOps, CI/CD, including 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 in Redmond, Washington, USA
- Applicant must be eligible to work on export controlled projects under U.S. Government export control regulations, including being a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b-3, or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
- Applicant must be willing to travel monthly to the El Segundo, CA office
Benefits & Perks
Compensation range of $159,980 - $197,700
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
Catered lunches, snacks, and accessible kitchen
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