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 the engineering team managing 300+ destination integrations, focusing on technical execution, product improvements, and mentoring engineers while ensuring customer satisfaction.

Lead and develop a remote team of Python engineers, ensuring their growth and satisfaction while driving high-quality software delivery.

As the Engineering Manager for Scribe's Platform team, you will lead the backend team, define technical strategy, collaborate on product outcomes, and foster engineering culture while ensuring reliability and compliance.

Lead a hands-on engineering team to improve kernel-centric reliability of large AI compute clusters. Own technical vision, build diagnostic and debug tooling, collaborate with SW and HW teams to reduce downtime, speed failure analysis, and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, reliable production systems.

As a Lead Front-End Engineer, you'll own UI architecture, mentor team members, manage technical initiatives, and drive AI-powered feature development.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to ship features, collaborate with cross-functional teams, coach engineers, and manage project progress.

Lead a Product Engineering squad (8–15 engineers), prioritize people development, hiring, process, and predictable delivery. Drive AI-native practices, technical credibility, customer-focused outcomes, testing/validation, and cross-functional partnerships while owning team budget and headcount.

Lead a squad end-to-end to deliver customer value: set direction, drive execution, ensure scalable and secure architectures, stay close to technical work, coach and grow engineers, hire and manage performance, and apply AI-native practices to accelerate delivery.

Manage engineering projects and QA for a small, remote engineering team: track work, run bug pipeline, write and automate tests (Capybara when useful), coordinate engineers with product and internal stakeholders, and report status to leadership while using AI to streamline repetitive testing tasks.

Leads and develops a team of mobile software engineers building NPR applications. Responsibilities include coaching, hiring, Agile delivery, technical planning, code and design reviews, workflow automation, production incident response, vendor coordination, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires prior hands-on mobile engineering experience, proficiency in native iOS or Android technologies, release infrastructure, Git, and Agile/Scrum practices.

Leads the Platform Development and browser engineering teams, overseeing architecture, development, delivery, optimization, and operational excellence for scalable enterprise software. Maintains hands-on technical involvement while building high-performing teams, mentoring leaders, driving AI enablement, improving engineering practices, and executing the product roadmap. Partners with Product, Architecture, Data, and AI teams to deliver reliable, secure, performant platform capabilities and communicates technical strategy and progress to executive stakeholders.

Lead and develop a software engineering team modernizing a legacy enterprise platform. Drive re-architecture, define target-state architecture and technical strategy, guide scalability and reliability decisions, and establish engineering standards for testing, code review, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and operational excellence. Partner with Architecture, Product, Security, and business stakeholders while recruiting talent, supporting career development, and balancing technical priorities with delivery commitments.

Lead Docker’s Secure Build and SCS Services teams, owning delivery, team health, technical direction, operational excellence, hiring, and engineer development. Shape portfolio priorities across secure build, Docker Scout, and Docker Hardened Images while balancing roadmap work, reliability, on-call, and stakeholder commitments. Partner with Product and cross-functional teams, guide distributed-systems and infrastructure decisions, oversee incidents and production operations, and establish clear ownership across team interfaces. The role requires strong backend engineering judgment, software supply-chain security understanding, and leadership across remote European and US teams.

Lead a 6–8 engineer team building an SSH client, web app, and backend services for an agentic AI platform. Own architecture, hiring, process, roadmap partnership with product, incident response, and mentorship while remaining ~20% hands-on.

Lead engineering for CaptivateIQ’s Incentive Compensation Operations platform. Hire, develop, and manage software engineers; partner cross-functionally on product vision, roadmaps, and strategy; oversee delivery, reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence; guide architecture and technical decisions; and transform compensation operations into an AI-native experience using intelligent agents to reduce manual work.

Lead and grow a DevOps team responsible for AWS/Azure infrastructure, CI/CD, reliability, observability, incident response, and FinOps. Set technical direction for IaC, pipelines, and service management while partnering with Product, Engineering, and Security and participating in on-call rotation.

Lead one or more Agile engineering squads to deliver scalable, high-quality microservices and platform capabilities. Translate product requirements into technical solutions, mentor engineers, drive CI/CD and test automation, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure predictable, production-ready deliveries.

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.

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 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 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 an engineering team, set technical vision, drive delivery of scalable secure systems, partner with product/design, establish engineering practices (Agile, CI/CD, TDD), mentor engineers, and promote innovation to advance Function's healthcare platform.

The Engineering Manager will mentor a team of engineers, improve processes, collaborate with product managers, and define staffing strategies.