Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Detroit, MI

Lead a platform configuration and implementation engineering team, owning technical direction, delivery commitments, architecture, system reliability, hiring, and engineer development. Collaborate across Product, Delivery, Underwriting, Compliance, and peer engineering teams. Guide distributed systems and microservices development, promote configuration-driven solutions, adopt AI development tooling, monitor team and system metrics, and contribute hands-on to design and code reviews.

Leads site engineering resources and manages engineering execution, product launches, continuous improvement, equipment standards, capacity planning, and engineering change processes. Partners with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and Maintenance to deliver projects on schedule, within budget, and to quality standards. Supervises, recruits, coaches, and develops engineering personnel while promoting safety, accountability, and collaboration in a production facility.

Leads a General Assembly Manufacturing Engineering team responsible for vehicle manufacturability, assembly strategy, automation, launch readiness, safety, and cross-functional product integration. Sets technical priorities, guides complex problem-solving, manages engineering deliverables, develops team members, and represents plant and operator needs in product decisions. Partners with product engineering, tooling, automation, plant launch, suppliers, and program management teams to improve designs, reduce risk and cost, and deliver successful vehicle launches.

Manage a distributed team of senior and staff engineers developing and scaling Gitaly, GitLab’s Git storage tier. Drive complex infrastructure, performance, scalability, architecture, and maintainability initiatives while balancing roadmap and platform priorities. Provide mentoring, career development, technical guidance, and accountability. Collaborate asynchronously with Git and cross-functional teams, represent Gitaly’s technical direction, and ensure long-term platform viability through sound architectural judgment.

Leads engineering and program management for automotive progressive stamping operations, from customer quoting and feasibility through tooling development and production launch. Oversees manufacturing process development, progressive die design, strip layouts, supplier coordination, technical reviews, and continuous improvement. Partners with Quality on APQP, PFMEA, Control Plans, and PPAP documentation while ensuring compliance with IATF 16949, ISO 14001, and customer requirements.

Leads Supabase’s globally distributed Realtime engineering team, balancing people management, hiring, roadmap delivery, technical quality, reliability, support, and incident response. The role manages a low-latency Elixir and Phoenix service supporting Broadcast, Presence, and Postgres Changes. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, managing performance and career development, prioritizing work, maintaining service-level objectives, coordinating incidents, and driving blameless post-incident improvements.

Leads the Pipelines engineering team, overseeing people management, hiring, roadmap delivery, project prioritization, support workflows, SLOs, and incident response. The role requires technical credibility in Postgres replication, data pipelines, streaming systems, analytical destinations, and customer-facing data products. The manager builds a healthy remote team, coaches engineers, manages performance, coordinates incidents, communicates risks, and drives blameless post-incident improvements.

Lead and grow an engineering squad of 8–15 engineers, owning hiring, career development, performance, budget, headcount, delivery, and team results. Partner with engineering managers, Product, and Delivery to prioritize customer value and ship predictably. Drive AI-native engineering practices and continuous improvement in a remote, high-growth startup environment. This is a people-leadership role rather than a hands-on coding position.

Leads a manufacturing engineering team responsible for project execution from design through production launch. Develops project plans, budgets, and timelines; manages risks, roadblocks, quality, safety, and regulatory compliance; coordinates with operations, quality, and supply chain; mentors engineers; and drives continuous improvement at an onsite assembly facility.

Leads distributed engineering teams, oversees technical execution and software project delivery, establishes engineering standards, manages risks, ensures scalable and secure architecture, and develops engineering talent. Partners with product, architecture, technical leadership, clients, and stakeholders on roadmaps, delivery plans, performance, and continuous improvement.

Own and evolve Hopper’s subledger platform, ensuring accurate, traceable financial transaction recording and reconciliation. Lead and mentor engineers, set technical direction, oversee architecture, and drive scalable abstractions, automation, refactors, and migrations. Partner closely with Finance, Accounting, Payments, Bookings, Post-Booking, and Data teams to translate accounting requirements into reliable system designs. Monitor reconciliation and reliability KPIs, reduce manual effort, and eliminate transaction discrepancies.

Leads a 15-person engineering organization building scalable, multi-site compute infrastructure for automotive test and simulation benches. Owns technical direction, platform roadmap, reliability, capacity and investment planning, observability, security, production readiness, and customer enablement. The role coordinates engineering, IT, networking, security, and test-program stakeholders while scaling infrastructure beyond 500 benches and developing engineering leadership.

Lead a team of firmware and ML engineers developing, optimizing, and deploying AI models on edge devices. Set technical strategy for embedded systems, latency, power, memory, and model performance; provide hands-on leadership; partner with Product and Hardware teams to ship mass-production products; shape roadmaps; and hire, mentor, and develop engineering talent.

Leads the engineering team responsible for Airbnb’s globally scalable AirCover insurance platform. Sets technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, and operational standards for configurable insurance products, pricing, enrollment, coverage management, and experimentation. Partners with Product, Data Science, Legal, Insurance, Finance, and Operations to expand across regions and improve attach rates. Manages hiring, mentoring, career development, incident response, and engineering quality while guiding distributed, high-availability backend systems and ML-driven experimentation.

Lead two engineering teams owning Airbnb’s marketing communications platform, including message orchestration, delivery infrastructure, observability, reliability, and AI-native systems. Responsibilities include technical strategy, roadmap execution, engineering management, career development, cross-team prioritization, SLOs, incident management, vendor escalations, and 24/7 on-call operations. The role requires delivering production-grade agentic systems, high-throughput distributed services, large-scale migrations, and reliable messaging across multiple channels.

Leads a high-performing engineering team focused on people management, strategic execution, hiring, coaching, and delivery of core services and systems. The role sets priorities, manages performance, guides technical direction, addresses system and process risks, and partners cross-functionally to deliver business value. Responsibilities include managing employees and contractors, overseeing software development lifecycle execution, fostering psychological safety, improving operational excellence, and guiding teams through ambiguity and organizational change.

Leads Site Reliability Engineering teams responsible for reliability, availability, incident response, disaster recovery, automation, telemetry, security, and compliance for Microsoft Substrate services in regulated environments. Establishes SLOs and SLIs, drives operational excellence, participates in on-call rotations, leads post-incident improvements, develops senior engineers, and influences cross-organizational engineering strategy.

Lead a team of five engineers responsible for modernizing job ingestion pipelines, data stores, data access, data quality, and fraud detection systems. Partner with product managers, data scientists, and engineering stakeholders to prioritize scalable, real-time data initiatives. Improve the handling of messy user-generated and third-party data while ensuring performance, maintainability, security, and personalization capabilities across ZipRecruiter’s job marketplace.

Engineering Manager responsible for leading and developing a team of engineers while balancing technical leadership, execution, and people management. The role involves improving productivity and reliability, shaping technical roadmaps with product and design partners, setting team objectives, leading hiring and retention, and delivering complex web applications and services. The manager will also mentor engineers, support career growth, and make strategic decisions in a fast-paced environment.

Lead the Secure Access engineering team across software, platform, on-premises infrastructure, and cloud environments. Set technical direction, manage priorities and delivery, mentor engineers, maintain reliability for existing customers, and deliver new features. The role requires experience with VMware virtualized infrastructure, VDI or remote access, GCP workloads, Linux administration, containers, and CI/CD pipelines, along with the ability to translate product vision into engineering tasks and communicate with nontechnical stakeholders.

Leads and develops engineering teams in a player/coach role, balancing technical leadership, execution, and people management. Responsibilities include improving team productivity and reliability, shaping technical roadmaps with product and design partners, setting objectives, representing the team in engineering initiatives, and leading hiring, development, and retention. The role requires system design expertise, proficiency in a general-purpose programming language, experience delivering complex web applications and services, and adaptability across technical systems.

Lead the POS Payments Experience engineering team, delivering reliable Android and web-based payment products. Drive planning, cross-team execution, technical direction, architecture, quality, monitoring, and production issue resolution. Partner with product and UX leaders, hire and develop engineers, and champion AI-assisted development practices.

Leads and develops a team responsible for Microsoft 365 and modern workplace services. Provides hands-on technical leadership across endpoint management, identity, collaboration, automation, security, and device management. Oversees technical design, implementation, troubleshooting, escalations, service operations, roadmaps, governance, documentation, and continuous improvement while partnering with other IT teams and organizational leadership.

Lead and mentor software engineering teams across multiple product pods. Provide technical direction, oversee production services and operational readiness, manage on-call and incident response, support hiring and career development, and drive cross-functional planning and delivery. The role requires strong people-management experience, technical judgment, production-service expertise, and the ability to work asynchronously in a distributed startup environment.

Leads mechanical engineering for consumer electromechanical pet products from concept through mass production. Manages engineers, establishes design standards, guides prototyping and validation, oversees CAD and product data, and partners with industrial design, electrical engineering, manufacturing, quality, suppliers, and product management. Responsibilities include design reviews, tolerance analysis, DFMEA, root-cause investigations, tooling and production readiness, cost control, technical risk management, hiring, coaching, and team development.