Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Detroit, MI

Lead cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver scalable enterprise software and products. Own engagement relationships, product roadmaps, architecture (APIs, microservices), CI/CD and quality practices, project planning, and mentoring of junior staff to drive delivery and continuous improvement.

Lead and grow an observability engineering team to define technical vision, build instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing solutions, drive platform development and vendor management, and collaborate across AI/ML, firmware, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability and incident response.

Lead and grow a Targeted Collection Engineering team to design, build, and operate scalable data collection and warehousing systems. Own a managed attribution browser, set technical strategy, partner with product and cross-functional teams, and ensure data reliability, security, and scale for national security customers.

Lead the Platform Firmware team at Samsara, driving hardware program execution, managing firmware engineers, and collaborating with various stakeholders for high-quality hardware delivery.

Lead and manage deployment engineers executing AMR site installations across regions. Own end-to-end deployment lifecycle, resolve technical/logistical issues, coordinate cross-functional teams, standardize deployment processes, report status to leadership, and mentor team members to ensure on-time, high-quality customer deployments.

Lead and grow a team of engineers building account and transaction history infrastructure. Drive re-architecture for scale, own internal developer tools and dashboards, shape distributed systems and streaming pipeline architecture, coordinate roadmaps with product and finance, and own hiring, SLA accountability, incident response, and on-call practices.

Manage and grow a Cloud Operations Engineering team to ensure fleet reliability and customer environment health across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Own operational outcomes (SLOs, error budgets, incidents), on-call rotations, audit/compliance contributions (FedRAMP, SOC2), cloud cost management, and cross-team coordination while partnering with architects and security. Hire, develop, and report on team performance and risk to engineering leadership.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team developing web applications and AI tools, optimizing product-led growth strategies and enhancing the developer experience.

Lead a global network engineering team to design, scale, and operate large-scale IP and optical backbone and hybrid cloud connectivity. Own technical roadmap, cloud connectivity strategy, automation, vendor relationships, hardware/software integration, testing, tooling, DDoS mitigation, operational excellence, and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations while ensuring compliance in regulated environments.

Lead a full-stack engineering team for core Enterprise product development, balancing management with technical contributions in a remote-first setting.

Lead and grow a hands-on Maps & Search engineering team owning home search across web and mobile. Set technical direction, contribute to code, and scale a high-throughput search platform (~1B monthly requests). Improve relevance, latency, and reliability, integrate AI/LLMs into discovery and ranking, and drive delivery from roadmap through incidents and production operations.

Lead and grow a frontend platform team owning Zocdoc's accessible React component library and design system. Define roadmap and technical strategy, drive adoption across web and mobile, institutionalize accessibility and quality, mentor engineers, partner with UX/Product/Analytics, and deliver platform improvements that speed frontend and mobile development.

Lead and mentor a software engineering team focused on vehicle software distribution. Drive cross-functional collaboration, oversee the full SDLC, enforce quality, architecture and CI/CD best practices, manage performance and hiring, contribute to roadmap and risk mitigation, and promote an innovative, agile engineering culture.

Leads multiple software engineering teams and owns technical direction across enterprise applications, integrations, APIs, legacy modernization, and production support. The role combines principal-level hands-on engineering with people leadership, including architecture decisions, coding, code reviews, debugging, engineering standards, incident response, hiring, coaching, and delivery management.

Lead and grow a Data Foundations engineering team building high-throughput, reliable data platforms. Drive architecture and delivery for ingestion, buffering, enrichment, replication, storage, and query layers (ClickHouse, CDC, event streaming), ensure operability across SaaS/Dedicated/Self-Managed/Cells deployments, hire and coach engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver customer-facing reporting and search capabilities.

Leads General Motors’ advanced vehicle structures team, guiding early-phase architecture and structural development across BEV and truck programs. Responsibilities include optimizing load paths, crashworthiness, stiffness, mass, cost, manufacturability, battery integration, castings, and mixed materials. The role coordinates with CAE, manufacturing, design, safety, suppliers, and program leadership; manages resources, resolves structural issues, supports trade studies, and develops engineering talent.

Lead end-to-end deployment of autonomous mobile equipment and material automation across GM plants. Own lifecycle from planning to production integration, coordinate cross-functional teams, build and mentor engineering staff, report to executives, remove barriers, and scale AMR/AGV solutions and fleet management across multiple sites.

Leads a hardware engineering team responsible for designing and releasing propulsion management hardware, including power electronics, vehicle charging, engine boosting, and emissions systems. Ensures engineering, performance, safety, quality, reliability, and durability targets are achieved while coordinating suppliers and internal stakeholders. Recruits, coaches, and develops employees, prioritizes execution, removes roadblocks, and drives efficient product development. Requires approximately 5% travel and hybrid onsite attendance.

The Lead Architect will develop backend services, oversee integration with imaging facilities, set coding standards, mentor engineers, and ensure fault-tolerant systems while adhering to healthcare data standards.

Lead and hands-on manage an engineering team delivering Customer Care and Aftersales order entry and retail inventory systems. Own delivery, modernization, cloud migration, resiliency, observability, DevSecOps, incident readiness, and cross-functional coordination. Coach engineers, drive technical strategy, ensure production stability, and align engineering priorities with business and product stakeholders.

Lead a small team (2-4) as a hands-on engineering manager, owning sprint delivery, team health, performance management, and incident response. Contribute to a TypeScript codebase, partner with Product and Design, uphold operational and compliance standards for money-touching products, and champion AI-forward automation, IaC, CI/CD, and observability to ship reliable software.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

Lead a hardware engineering group responsible for high-voltage distribution and sensing (BDUs, junction boxes, fuse boxes, sensing hardware). Translate propulsion strategy into roadmaps, ensure performance, safety, quality and release, partner with cross-functional teams and suppliers, hire and develop talent, remove roadblocks, and drive execution with accountability. Hybrid role with some domestic/international travel (~5%).

Lead and grow a team executing display integration across concept, sourcing, engineering, validation, launch, and production support. Drive cross-functional alignment on architecture, packaging, interfaces, supplier accountability, DFMEA/PFMEA, issue resolution, cost optimization, and launch readiness across multiple vehicle platforms and display configurations.

Lead Ford Racing's Performance Engineering team overseeing vehicle dynamics, aerodynamics, simulation, trackside engineering, and data analysis. Drive race-to-road technology transfer, manage budgets and resources, coordinate cross-functional vehicle systems (powertrain, eDrive, chassis), direct CFD and wind-tunnel development, and lead DiL, lap time simulation, and telemetry-driven performance strategies to maximize competitiveness.