Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Detroit, MI

Leads end-to-end hardware engineering execution for advanced robotics programs from concept through launch. Owns mechanical architecture, design release, change management, prototype hardware, power-electronics integration, automation hardware, validation, and production readiness. Manages program plans, milestones, risks, technical decisions, cross-functional dependencies, suppliers, and engineering teams while resolving design, build, and test issues.

Leads end-to-end electrical engineering execution for autonomous robotics programs from concept through launch. Owns electrical architectures, wiring, communications, controls calibration, sensing, design release, change management, configuration control, and production readiness. Manages milestones, dependencies, risks, suppliers, manufacturing coordination, validation, and cross-functional technical decisions. Ensures programs deliver on schedule, meet quality and safety requirements, and achieve scalable, manufacturable electrical system integration.

Lead a team of software engineers building and scaling Spark’s broker productivity platform. Responsibilities include architecting full-stack solutions, guiding technical direction, reviewing code, managing infrastructure priorities, coordinating product planning, sequencing projects, coaching engineers, hiring, and ensuring reliable, high-quality delivery. The role balances hands-on engineering with people management and is fully remote within the United States.

Leads a hardware engineering team responsible for automotive connectivity telematics modules from sourcing and specification through production launch. Oversees hardware integration, packaging, supplier and contract manufacturer coordination, BOM and change management, DFMEA, validation builds, production approvals, issue resolution, and regulatory, safety, EMC, and cybersecurity compliance. Partners with product, software, systems, quality, purchasing, and vehicle teams while reporting program status, risks, costs, timing, and supplier readiness to senior leadership.

Lead and mentor a software engineering squad while remaining hands-on with code reviews, design discussions, and occasional development. Own the software development lifecycle, drive sprint execution, remove blockers, ensure secure and high-quality delivery, and partner with product and engineering leadership. Support open-source contributors, communicate progress and risks, and guide engineers’ technical and professional growth.

Leads multiple software engineering teams building enterprise platforms, integrations, APIs, and modernization programs. Sets technical direction, owns delivery and production health, drives architecture and legacy-system modernization, and embeds AI coding agents across the software development lifecycle. The role remains hands-on through coding, reviews, debugging, and prototyping while coaching leaders, hiring engineers, improving engineering practices, measuring delivery performance, and aligning technical outcomes with business strategy.

Leads technical strategy, architecture, and execution for Ford Pro’s large-scale fleet management platform. Oversees micro frontends, backend modernization, cloud-native distributed systems, multi-tenant scalability, partner integrations, APIs, security, observability, and data enablement. Provides engineering leadership, mentorship, governance, and cross-functional collaboration while supporting telemetry ingestion, analytics, and customer-facing insights.

Leads Systems Engineering Team leaders and vehicle hardware engineering integration using systems design and MBSE methodologies. Drives vehicle-level decisions, cost and weight optimization, part reduction, quality improvements, design compatibility reviews, lifecycle cost targets, and program milestone delivery. Collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, supply chain, studio, suppliers, and other cross-functional partners while managing technical trade-offs, system sign-offs, production readiness, and EV-related engineering initiatives.

Leads a hardware engineering team within GM’s Energy Conversion Systems organization, overseeing propulsion hardware design and release. Ensures functional, performance, safety, quality, reliability, durability, serviceability, and delivery targets are achieved. Responsibilities include recruiting, coaching, developing talent, prioritizing work, removing roadblocks, managing suppliers, resolving conflicts, and aligning individual contributions with organizational objectives. The role requires approximately 5% travel and hybrid onsite attendance.

Leads the Structural Hardware engineering team responsible for design and release of propulsion hardware, including cylinder blocks, cylinder heads, gaskets, brackets, support structures, transmission structures, and joints. Ensures performance, safety, quality, reliability, durability, serviceability, and delivery targets. Recruits, coaches, and develops engineers; prioritizes work, removes roadblocks, manages stakeholders, and drives efficient execution across GM and supplier engineering organizations.

Lead a globally distributed IT engineering team building enterprise integrations, workflow automation, orchestration, and AI-native workflows. Set technical direction, establish roadmaps, manage delivery metrics, and partner with business and service operations leaders to eliminate manual work. Guide engineers on architecture, CI/CD, testing, and development practices while evaluating emerging automation and AI tools. Build integrations across identity, ITSM, SaaS, and enterprise systems, and grow team capabilities across US and India time zones.

Leads and develops an engineering team focused on developer productivity and observability for autonomous vehicle software. Defines technical strategy and platform roadmaps, oversees distributed systems architecture, instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing, and supports incident response. Partners with AI/ML, firmware, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability. Leads telemetry tools and data pipelines at scale while managing third-party observability vendors, costs, coaching, performance reviews, and career development.

Lead and develop an engineering squad building scalable partner-facing products and APIs. Shape multi-quarter strategy, coordinate across engineering and business teams, guide architecture and technical tradeoffs, improve reliability and delivery practices, and develop engineers and emerging leaders. Partner with Product, Design, and Business Development to translate customer and partner needs into durable platform capabilities while influencing broader engineering direction and culture.

Leads multiple software engineering teams responsible for Commercial OnStar products and Commercial APIs. Sets engineering strategy, roadmaps, and operating plans; guides architecture modernization, reliability, observability, and incident response; and drives customer, revenue, adoption, and service-quality outcomes. Partners across product, infrastructure, security, privacy, vehicle data, sales, and support organizations. Builds engineering leadership, hires and develops talent, manages organizational design, and represents the function in executive and customer engagements.

Leads global vehicle closure systems engineering strategy, design, supplier development, verification, validation, production launch, quality, and ongoing product support. Owns technical standards, design reviews, business cases, technology development, and engineering KPIs. Manages department resources, budgets, talent development, cross-functional collaboration, supplier selection, and executive communication while ensuring robust, production-feasible designs.

Leads a cross-functional engineering team responsible for GameChanger’s basketball coverage products across iOS, Android, and backend platforms. Coaches and develops engineers, sets delivery and reliability standards, partners with Product and Design on priorities, hires talent, and contributes to engineering culture and organizational effectiveness. The role requires technical depth, architecture fluency, product judgment, and active development of AI fluency.

Lead the IQ Platform engineering team and define the architecture and roadmap for Jasper’s AI context layer. Build scalable knowledge management systems, integrations, and RAG pipelines that improve agent intelligence and reliability. Serve as a player-coach by contributing code, mentoring engineers, partnering with Staff-level technical leaders, and driving major platform initiatives from strategy through delivery.

Lead a team of firmware and ML engineers developing, optimizing, and deploying computer vision and AI models on edge devices. Provide hands-on technical leadership for embedded systems, low-latency processing, and resource-constrained hardware. Partner with Product, Hardware, and Full-stack teams to deliver products from concept through mass production, shape technical roadmaps, and hire and develop engineering talent.

Manages the Marketplace Performance software engineering team, setting technical strategy and delivering business-critical backend and consumer marketplace systems. Partners with product, design, analytics, revenue, and merchant teams; oversees system reliability, monitoring, testing, on-call operations, and technical standards. Develops engineering talent, drives quality and ownership, and contributes to Affirm’s ads platform and marketplace monetization initiatives.

Lead and grow the Product Engineering team to deliver customer-facing web dashboards, APIs, integrations, and AI workflows. Own roadmap execution, collaborate with Product and Design, drive engineering best practices (testing, deployment, observability), provide technical mentorship, and remain hands-on in architecture and code reviews to ensure high-quality, scalable SaaS product delivery.

Lead and develop mobile engineering teams building Ford’s customer-facing app. Provide technical direction across product development and production, review architectures and designs, establish engineering standards for documentation, code quality, testing, and operational excellence, evaluate mobile technologies, and partner with product, design, and engineering leaders to deliver reliable, scalable experiences.

Leads process engineering teams across two automotive manufacturing facilities. Oversees manufacturing documentation, process standards, new program launches, line layouts, capacity planning, engineering changes, continuous improvement, customer quality issues, and corrective actions. Partners with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, Program Management, Materials Planning and Logistics, and Automation Engineering to improve safety, quality, productivity, throughput, scrap reduction, and production readiness.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Leads a large team of interior engineering designers supporting Instrument Panel and Floor Console vehicle programs. Responsibilities include staffing, workload prioritization, technical direction, design and release execution, process and standards development, training, performance management, issue resolution, and cross-functional collaboration. The role guides technical solutions, manages math development processes, removes roadblocks, and ensures successful delivery of vehicle program design objectives.

Lead a six-to-eight-person engineering team through people management, hiring, performance management, planning, delivery oversight, and career development. Remain hands-on by contributing code and pull requests while partnering with product managers and technical leaders on priorities, architecture, and alignment. Support onboarding, documentation, ownership clarity, and team growth. The role requires substantial backend experience, strong TypeScript skills, recent technical contributions, AI-enabled engineering workflow familiarity, and prior management of at least five engineers.