Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Detroit, MI

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.

Lead and mentor an Agile software team, promoting quality, innovation, and performance while ensuring an alignment with company goals and overseeing team dynamics and talent development.

The Manager of Software Engineering will lead the Developer Environments team, enhancing developer productivity through effective environment provisioning and CI/CD workflows while mentoring engineers and implementing system reliability improvements.

Lead a team that builds and operates CI/CD, configuration management, and embedded software developer tooling. Define platform strategy, enforce repository and artifact standards, drive reliability and security across GitHub, Artifactory, Azure, and CI systems, partner with stakeholders to improve developer productivity, and grow team capability through hiring and coaching.

Lead one or more backend engineering teams responsible for core platform services, APIs, data stores, and distributed systems. Drive operating cadence, technical direction, scalability, reliability, and debt reduction. Partner with product and cross-functional stakeholders, participate in architectural decisions, hire and develop engineers, and ensure predictable delivery and high-quality solutions at scale.

Lead and manage SRE/DevOps teams to drive reliability roadmaps, oversee incident management, ensure cloud-native infrastructure scalability, security, and performance, and collaborate cross-functionally to align reliability with business goals.

Lead one or more engineering teams building and operating Airbnb's global payments platform. Set technical strategy, prioritize work, partner cross-functionally, drive reliability and compliance, reduce technical debt, hire and grow engineers, and deliver high-impact payment features and operational excellence at scale.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of software engineers, collaborating with data scientists and geologists to build robust data systems for mineral exploration. Responsibilities include planning and prioritizing projects, coaching team members, and contributing as an individual on critical tasks.

Lead a backend engineering team owning the creative pipeline for high-throughput, low-latency adtech services. Drive roadmap execution, run agile rituals, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and code reviews, handle incidents and on-call, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and support hiring and onboarding.

Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers to deploy Cohere's North platform into private cloud and on-premises environments. Own technical delivery and customer success, collaborate with Product/Engineering/Sales, optimize K8s services (OpenSearch, databases), define GPU/CPU scaling, and build scalable processes and tooling.

Lead and grow a mobile engineering squad building highly-available, distributed SaaS products. Drive technical execution, mentor engineers, run Agile ceremonies, hire, participate in on-call, and partner with Product, Design, Security, Data, and GTM to deliver roadmap outcomes.

Lead a small team owning GFiber's multi‑terabit backbone design, reliability, capacity planning, and observability across IP and optical layers. Drive DWDM metro/long‑haul transport design, telemetry pipelines, automation tooling (Go/Python), and align team strategy with organizational goals while remaining hands‑on in design and code.

Lead and grow a team of software engineers building custom and SaaS solutions for Vertical Brands. Partner with Product and Design to deliver roadmap initiatives, ensure technical excellence, manage delivery and resources, drive data-driven product improvements, and mentor engineers to build capabilities and high-performing culture.

Lead and grow the Customer Studio engineering team to deliver major product features, improve execution pace, hiring, reliability, and incident management. Drive data-warehouse performance optimizations, real-time audience syncing (CDC), analytics/experimentation, and integrate generative AI to improve user workflows while mentoring engineers and collaborating on roadmap and recruiting.

Lead and grow global engineering teams building APM agents and observability tooling. Hands-on with data analysis, OpenTelemetry, backend engineering, reliability, scalability, on-call operations, and cross-team execution to deliver production-grade distributed systems.

Lead and grow a team of autonomy engineers to stand up autonomy on novel platforms (space, maritime, rotorcraft), own delivery from design through fielding, write and integrate latency-sensitive autonomy code, coordinate with platform and cross-functional teams, support live tests and deployments, and evolve R&D efforts into longer-term programs.

Lead and grow a small autonomy engineering team to design, integrate, validate, and field autonomy software for launched effects. Own delivery, hiring, mentoring, technical direction, ICDs, pre-deployment validation, live test support, hardware/software debugging, and cross-team collaboration for multi-agent and air-gapped fleet deployments.

Lead and grow a 5–10 engineer autonomy integration team for V-BAT/X-BAT, owning delivery, hiring, mentoring, and technical health. Drive integration of autonomy software (mission behaviors, VTOL transitions, multi-agent coordination), collaborate tightly with aircraft, perception, and capability teams, run ICDs and field tests, and support live exercises and deployments (20–30% travel).

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a development team, set technical direction, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate cross-functionally to enhance a SaaS application for governance, risk, and compliance.

Lead day-to-day operations for multiple engineering teams, drive sprint planning and quarterly roadmaps, remove blockers, improve delivery processes, coach and develop engineers, review technical and architectural decisions, coordinate cross-team dependencies, partner with product and design, and track engineering metrics to continuously improve quality and throughput.

Lead and grow the backend engineering team that owns the high-traffic application process. Own technical direction, architecture, delivery, hiring, and hands-on engineering (design/code reviews). Partner with product and design to take ambiguous problems to production while raising engineering standards.

Lead a distributed team of 6-8 engineers to deliver web applications from requirements through production. Own planning, delivery, incident response, hiring, onboarding, performance management, and AI-augmented development practices while partnering with product and engineering leadership to improve quality, scalability, and team health.

The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor engineering teams, define technical strategies, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive project success with a focus on high-quality software delivery.

Lead the Warranty Acceleration Team to triage warranty and quality issues, drive root-cause analysis, approve corrective actions, coordinate cross-functional resolution, maintain lessons learned, monitor issue tracking (GIM/S2IRIUS), and report to PTDR senior leadership to meet quality and warranty targets.

The Engineering Manager will lead the Web & Add-ins team, driving product development and team optimization while ensuring project success and best practices.