Top Engineering Manager Jobs

Manage and grow multiple engineering teams (3–5 direct reports, hire 3–5 more), coach engineers to own large, loosely defined projects, provide feedback on specs, occasionally code/debug in the codebase, and lead department-wide initiatives to improve engineering practices (reviews, interviews, demo data, developer experience).

Lead and grow a Support Engineering team that resolves complex product issues, integrations, and data workflows. Define escalation and triage practices, build scalable diagnostics and internal tools, collaborate closely with Engineering and Product, mentor engineers on debugging, logs, and database querying, and create repeatable processes to improve customer outcomes and support efficiency.

Manage and lead an automation and controls engineering team delivering PLC/DCS programs, HMI/SCADA solutions, control system specifications, project estimates, and client relationships. Oversee project schedules, budgets, quality, safety, hiring, performance, and technical reviews while maintaining technical leadership and ensuring compliance with engineering standards and codes.

Manage a multidisciplinary electrical power and electronics team, oversee facility and machine power systems (480V/240V, switchgear, MCCs, UPS, generators), maintain electrical standards and documentation, support equipment integration and commissioning, lead root-cause analysis, manage vendors/contractors, and drive reliability, safety, and energy-efficiency improvements.

Manage a process engineering team to design equipment, systems, and P&IDs; ensure projects meet schedule, budget, quality, and safety standards; check calculations/drawings; develop design guidelines and specifications; assess feasibility, risks, man-hour requirements, and identify cost-saving opportunities.

Manage and mentor an automation and controls engineering team responsible for PLC/DCS programming, HMI and SCADA design, and industrial IT. Oversee project delivery, budgets, schedules, quality checks, specifications, client relationships, safety compliance, hiring, and technical leadership across multi-discipline automation projects.

Lead and manage a team designing, specifying, implementing, and commissioning industrial automation and control system projects (primarily DCS and SIS). Provide technical leadership for control narratives, logic development, system architecture, FAT/SAT, commissioning, safety (SIL/SIF), budgeting, scheduling, client relations, hiring, performance management, and compliance with industry standards and HSSE policies.

Lead and manage a team designing and delivering industrial control and safety systems (DCS/SIS). Oversee system architecture, logic development, HMI/PLC/SCADA integration, testing, commissioning, project budgets/schedules, client relations, hiring, and safety compliance.

Manage an electrical engineering team to deliver safe, accurate designs on schedule and within budget. Oversee quality checks, resource and budget planning, client relationships, risk management, and staff hiring/performance. Provide technical direction, review vendor drawings, visit sites/vendors, and ensure HSSE compliance and design code adherence.

Lead and grow a mechanical engineering team to develop, verify, and release UAV/quadcopter platforms. Own departmental strategy, resource planning, BOM and PLM management, DFM/DFA/DFT practices, cross-functional integration, supplier relationships, NPI and manufacturing scale-up, and continuous improvement to meet performance, cost, schedule, and quality goals.

Lead execution of equipment, relocation, automation, and plant improvement projects from concept to commissioning. Manage cross-functional teams, develop CapEx business cases, create equipment specs and RFQs, oversee installations, validations (IQ/OQ/PQ), PFMEAs, drawings, testing (FAT/SAT), mentor engineers, and support production troubleshooting and continuous improvement.

Manage and lead mechanical engineering teams through program execution for ISR/aviation systems. Oversee design, documentation, approvals, staffing, scheduling, budgets, risk mitigation, process improvement, training, and talent development while ensuring engineering output meets program requirements and security clearance standards.

Manage systems engineering teams through program execution for ISR/aviation systems. Oversee requirements, design, integration, verification, staffing, budgets, training, process improvement, and ensure timely engineering deliverables while supporting hiring and career development.

Lead a team of equipment engineers/technicians to own equipment uptime, maintenance programs, spare parts strategy, and new equipment installations/qualifications (FAT/SAT/IQ/OQ) for front-end MEMS and back-end device assembly supporting Class III medical implant production under QMS.

Lead a team building high-signal evaluation datasets, developer tools, and online evaluation systems (e.g., CursorBench) to measure and improve coding agent/model quality, integrate evals into launches, deploys, and training decisions, and define metrics and guardrails.

Lead and grow a platform engineering function, design and automate cloud-first infrastructure, implement enterprise observability/AIOps, build GitOps CI/CD and IaC (Terraform), enforce security controls and Zero Trust, create self-service developer workflows, mentor engineers, and drive architectural standards and cross-functional platform onboarding.

Lead and grow an infrastructure engineering team that builds and operates cloud, networking, storage, and compute platforms. Own Kubernetes clusters, geo-deployment strategy, edge/security and CDN/WAF, storage systems (Postgres/OLAP/ClickHouse), cost optimization, and a unified container orchestration platform while hiring, mentoring, and contributing code.

Lead the Desktop team building Cursor's desktop client: own UI, core features, and client-side architecture. Partner with product, design, and platform to deliver high-performance, reliable developer experiences. Hire and grow fullstack engineering talent, set engineering standards, and drive cross-cutting features like async agents, local↔cloud workflows, and deep product integration.

Lead a small team owning shared backend services (auth, webhooks, SCM integrations, agent backend). Set technical direction, build reliable high-throughput systems, write/review code, partner with product and infra, and hire/mentor engineers to ensure platform reliability and scalability.

Lead I&C and digital engineering for Extended Power Uprate projects, ensuring safe, compliant design, modification, and testing of I&C and electrical systems. Coordinate with EPCs, OEMs, Owner's Engineer and site teams to deliver constructible, operable solutions meeting NRC, NERC, IEEE, INPO, and fleet standards while resolving technical issues to meet cost, schedule, and quality metrics.

Lead electrical engineering for power uprate projects, ensuring safe, compliant designs meeting NRC/NERC/IEEE standards. Coordinate with EPCs, OEMs, Owner's Engineer, and site teams to deliver constructible, operable electrical solutions, support reviews, and resolve technical issues to meet project milestones.

Lead an ML platform engineering team to design and scale GPU cluster architecture, build training and inference orchestration frameworks, optimize performance and utilization at massive scale, set team roadmap, and partner with research and infrastructure teams to accelerate production deployment.

Lead and grow a cross-functional engineering team delivering Axion autonomy toolchain modules. Define technical roadmaps, drive architecture and engineering best practices, manage sprint/release execution, collaborate with product, UX, hardware/integration and operations, and ensure field readiness and quality for simulation, HIL/SIL, and real-time systems in defense and autonomy contexts.

Lead a solutions engineering team focused on pre-sales for automotive and mobility customers. Own technical presales end-to-end: customer onsites, architectural deep-dives, discovery, solution validation, and deal closure. Mentor engineers, partner with leadership and product teams, and translate complex automotive needs into winning technical solutions.

Lead and grow an engineering team building scalable behavior systems for L2/L4 autonomous vehicles. Own architecture and delivery of safety-critical behavior planning across diverse driving domains, collaborate with Perception, Research, Simulation, and Vehicle Operations, mentor engineers, and drive technical and business decisions for production autonomy systems.