Echodyne offers the world’s first compact solid-state true beam-steering radar for a wide range of industries and applications. Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM).
Echodyne is seeking a Software Engineering Manager, Data Platform, to join our fast-growing team.
Who You Are
Our Data Platform connects sensors and radars through EchoWare to cloud services and internal data systems. As Engineering Manager, Data Platform, you will lead the team responsible for building and operating the services, data flows, and interfaces that connect these environments. The team will securely move operational radar data into Echodyne’s data platform and turn those capabilities into reusable services that support products and teams across the company.
You stay close to the technology, understand the tradeoffs being made, ask the right questions, and use your experience to support and vet important technical decisions. You create the conditions for engineers and technical leads to own detailed architecture and implementation while ensuring decisions are pragmatic, technically sound, and aligned with business needs.
You have experience building cloud and distributed systems from the ground up and understand that successful 0 → 1 development requires deliberate choices about what must be built now, what needs a strong foundation, and what can reasonably wait.
You are a strategic thinker who can use the systems being built today as a beachhead for broader services, capabilities, and product opportunities over time.
You are also a team builder and strong cross-functional partner, comfortable leading work across edge and cloud environments and collaborating closely with Analytics, Research, Product, and other engineering teams.
Required Experience
- 5+ years managing engineering teams, including hiring, developing talent, setting priorities, and driving accountability.
- Proven experience building new systems, platforms, or products from the ground up in environments where requirements and architecture were still evolving.
- Strong understanding of edge computing and cloud platforms, with practical experience building production services, APIs, distributed systems, and data pipelines, particularly for data-intensive systems with real-time delivery requirements.
- Comfortable evaluating architecture and design choices, identifying risks and unnecessary complexity, and helping teams make pragmatic technical decisions.
- Experience building shared platforms, APIs, or services that other engineering teams depend on.
- Strong understanding of operating production services, including reliability, availability, SLAs or SLOs, deployment, observability, and incident response.
What Sets You Apart
- You have a strong track record of hiring and developing the talent needed to build and operate complex systems.
- You have built cloud and distributed systems from the ground up and know how to balance immediate needs with longer-term platform foundations.
- You have the technical depth and judgment to guide, challenge, and vet important engineering decisions.
- You are comfortable leading teams that build processing capabilities at the edge and services in the cloud, and can guide delivery across the boundary between them.
- You think strategically about how today’s platform can become the foundation for broader services and capabilities.
- You bring a strong security mindset to system design, including authentication and device identity, encryption, access controls, tenant isolation, auditability, and the handling of sensitive customer data.
- You are naturally inclined to lead with action, thrive in ambiguity, and drive the team toward clarity and execution while maintaining strong strategic alignment.
What You Do
- Hire, develop, and organize the talent needed to deliver across edge and cloud systems.
- Stay close to the technology, guide key design decisions, identify risks, and help the team make sound technical choices.
- Turn broad product and business goals into clear technical priorities, balancing immediate needs with longer-term platform investments.
- Lead delivery of cohesive systems spanning edge processing, cloud services, and the interfaces between them.
- Deliver reliable shared services that other teams can depend on, with clear ownership and operational expectations.
- Use today’s platform as the foundation for future services, capabilities, and product expansion.
- Establish clear priorities, accountability, engineering practices, and operational maturity as the team grows.
Echodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations. Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S.
WHAT WE OFFERThis is an exempt role.If your skills generally align but not perfectly, please apply anyway. There may be another role that’s a great fit for you!
We offer competitive compensation and benefits to our full-time, US-based employees, including:
- RSU (Restricted Stock Units)
- Generous Benefits:
- Fully-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you
- Choice of PPO or HDHP/HSA
- Virtual Care – 98Point6
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental Health coverage through Springhealth & Talkspace (Premera)
- Travel Assistance Insurance
- Company Paid Life Insurance
- Company Paid Short & Long Term Disability
- Flexible PTO (exempt) / 15 days per year (non-exempt)
- 401(k) match
- Pet Insurance
- Prepaid Legal Program
- Commuter Benefits
- Paid Company Holidays
All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- 5+ years managing engineering teams, including hiring, talent development, priority setting, and accountability
- Experience building new systems, platforms, or products from the ground up amid evolving requirements and architecture
- Strong understanding of edge computing and cloud platforms
- Practical experience building production services, APIs, distributed systems, and data pipelines for data-intensive systems with real-time delivery requirements
- Experience evaluating architecture and design choices, identifying risks and unnecessary complexity, and guiding pragmatic technical decisions
- Experience building shared platforms, APIs, or services used by other engineering teams
- Strong understanding of production service operations, including reliability, availability, SLAs or SLOs, deployment, observability, and incident response
- Experience hiring and developing talent for complex systems
- Experience leading teams across edge processing and cloud services
- Security-focused system design experience involving authentication, device identity, encryption, access controls, tenant isolation, auditability, and sensitive customer data
Echodyne Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Echodyne and has not been reviewed or approved by Echodyne.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare premiums for employees are fully paid, and medical, dental, and vision options are consistently cited as strong parts of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO for salaried staff and structured accruals plus paid holidays for hourly employees indicate broad time-off support.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company match is noted, alongside company-paid life and disability insurance that strengthens financial security.
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What We Do
Echodyne designs and builds advanced radar solutions that unlock new capabilities for intelligent systems and autonomous machines and shatter price-performance barriers for sensor arrays. Our combination of patented metamaterials electronically scanned array (MESA®) technology with powerful software ultimately means significantly greater situational awareness that increases safety and saves lives. Our first radar is the size of a paperback book, weighs less than bowling pin, draws less power than a light bulb, yet outperforms every comparable radar on the market. We are just getting started. Echodyne delivers commercial radar solutions for end users and integrators in Government and Defense, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Autonomous Vehicle markets globally. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington and backed by Bill Gates, NEA, Madrona Venture Group, Baillie Gifford, Vulcan Capital, Vanedge Capital, and Irongrey among others. Discover more at echodyne.com.
