Top Engineering Manager Jobs

Leads manufacturing engineering teams supporting New Glenn first-stage production. Responsibilities include optimizing manufacturing operations, developing build plans, managing resources and budgets, mentoring staff, driving continuous improvement, supporting new product introduction and production scale-up, resolving technical issues, and ensuring safety, quality, regulatory, and delivery requirements.

Leads and develops engineering teams while remaining hands-on in production coding, architecture, design reviews, and technical decisions. Establishes engineering standards, owns system architecture, manages technical debt, partners with Product and Operations, and advances AI-native development practices through agent deployment and evaluation frameworks. The role also supports hiring, engineering culture, roadmap prioritization, and the delivery of healthcare technology systems.

Manage large and complex mechanical engineering capital projects from scope development through design, construction support, commissioning, and closeout. Responsibilities include coordinating consultants and disciplines, monitoring schedules and budgets, reviewing technical documents and construction submittals, conducting site assessments, preparing mechanical calculations and cost estimates, managing permits and approvals, resolving field issues, leading project meetings, and presenting projects to agency and community stakeholders.

Lead the System Modeling and Design Simulation organization, managing 5–10 engineers and specialists. Define modeling and simulation strategy, develop mathematical and discrete-event models, optimize robotic system designs, and guide capacity, throughput, and performance analysis. Partner with architecture, controls, mechanical, and software teams on trade studies and product decisions. Establish technical standards, mentor staff, support hiring, and communicate simulation-based recommendations to engineering leaders and executives.

Leads technical execution for BESS projects from design handoff through commissioning, performance validation, customer acceptance, and post-COD support. Owns customer and vendor technical discussions, milestone readiness, issue resolution, commissioning standards, field documentation, safety procedures, BoS configuration, supplier enablement, and EPC relationships. Builds and develops the Project Engineering team while coordinating Product, System Integration, PMO, Supply Chain, Quality, EHS, and field resources.

Leads a systems engineering section of 10–15 personnel while performing technical operations-analysis work. Responsibilities include engineering tasking, technical guidance, staffing, performance management, mentoring, project planning, cost and schedule oversight, compliance, and coordination across integrated product teams. The role requires active DoD Top Secret clearance, eligibility for Special Program Access, full-time on-site work in El Segundo, and up to 20% travel.

Leads multiple software engineering teams within employee platforms, providing technical direction, coaching, stakeholder management, and delivery oversight. Drives responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools, SDLC automation, cloud-native practices, secure development, and operational excellence. Oversees full-lifecycle application delivery, including architecture, development, testing, deployment, resiliency, compliance, and production stability. Establishes engineering standards and promotes quality through code reviews, automated testing, reusable patterns, and continuous improvement.

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.

Leads and develops a regional Sales Engineering team, partnering with Sales on technical deal strategy, evaluations, demos, and proofs of concept. The role improves pre-sales processes, coaches SEs, monitors technical sales metrics, supports strategic customer conversations, and communicates field insights to Product and Engineering. It requires technical credibility with developers and security teams, startup growth experience, and familiarity with software supply chain security, CI/CD, Linux, scripting, and open source ecosystems.

Lead software engineering for Nike’s Product Creation technology ecosystem. Own product roadmaps, translate research and innovation goals into technical requirements, guide architecture and development, and coordinate across engineering teams. Manage, mentor, and develop engineers while overseeing hiring, performance, and compensation processes. Partner with product, design, research, and business stakeholders to deliver modular, API-first capabilities using modern web, cloud, data, and software architecture practices.

Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering projects for autonomous underwater and surface vehicles from scope through integration, testing, sea trials, and production release. Build development plans, manage dependencies, critical paths, configuration, risks, scope changes, acceptance criteria, and test readiness. Work closely with mechanical, electrical, software, manufacturing, and operations teams in an on-site hardware development environment.

Leads a new GTM Engineering function, setting technical strategy and managing 2–3 engineers while remaining hands-on. Builds production systems connecting marketing, sales, product, and data platforms; orchestrates GTM workflows; improves prospect qualification and routing; establishes measurement and experimentation; and applies AI with evaluation, testing, and human oversight. The role uses TypeScript, Node.js, Customer.io, Salesforce, Snowflake, and Haskell integrations.

Lead and develop an analytics engineering team, define the analytics roadmap, and establish scalable standards for data modeling, business intelligence, and AI-enabled analytics. Partner with leadership, Operations, Engineering, and Product to solve complex business problems, deliver actionable insights, optimize data pipelines, and build a trusted data foundation. Champion documentation, data literacy, and evidence-based decision-making across the organization.

People-leadership role managing and growing a team of data scientists and AI engineers building retrieval, extraction, and reasoning systems for scientific discovery products. Focus on hiring, coaching, performance management, team health, cross-team initiatives, and communicating work to stakeholders. Maintain technical fluency in LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, and evaluation to mentor teams, while partnering with technical leads and product owners.

Leads Fastly’s Platform Security organization, defining multi-year technical strategy and roadmaps for foundational infrastructure, secrets, identity, PKI, and trust services. Manages engineering teams and principal-level contributors, drives reliability and security best practices across the organization, establishes metrics and accountability, and communicates strategy and risk to executives. Requires deep experience with distributed systems, infrastructure as code, Linux, cloud and on-premises environments, and security technologies. Coding is not expected, but strong technical expertise is essential.

Leads a 15–20-person Liaison Engineering team supporting the F-35 program. Oversees staffing, technical processes, escalation of aircraft nonconformances, and disposition of metallic, composite, and subsystem issues. Partners with engineering leadership to improve processes and best practices, while supporting recruiting, performance management, team meetings, and workforce planning. The role requires expertise in liaison engineering, aircraft design, GD&T, CAD tools, manufacturing systems, and government-cleared aerospace programs.

Leads multiple software engineering teams supporting mission-critical trade execution platforms for global financial markets. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy, mentoring engineers, delivering secure Java or Python applications on AWS, overseeing cloud-native microservices, improving operational stability, and coordinating stakeholders and vendors. The role also drives enterprise adoption of AI-assisted engineering and SDLC automation, establishing governance, security controls, quality gates, measurable outcomes, and responsible AI practices across teams.

Leads multiple software engineering teams, providing technical direction, coaching, resource and budget oversight, and cross-team collaboration. Establishes enterprise practices for AI-assisted engineering and SDLC/TLM automation, including governance, validation, security, resiliency, and measurable delivery outcomes. Requires experience operating NICE Actimize products, leading technologists, managing talent, applying cloud-native technologies, and scaling responsible AI practices across engineering workflows.

Lead multiple software engineering teams building and modernizing secure, reliable Java-based platforms for sanctions technology. Provide architectural direction, technical coaching, incident response leadership, and talent development. Drive cloud and hybrid modernization, responsible AI-assisted engineering adoption, SDLC automation, governance, and measurable delivery improvements. Partner with product, engineering, operations, and risk stakeholders while influencing budgets, technical strategy, compliance, performance, and operational resilience in regulated financial environments.

Lead and grow Confido’s data engineering team, initially managing an analytics engineer while remaining hands-on with SQL, data models, pipelines, and code reviews. Own warehouse architecture, orchestration, tooling, data standards, monitoring, and metric definitions. Hire and develop engineers, prioritize the team’s roadmap, collaborate across departments, and improve data reliability, documentation, and reporting across the company.

Leads the Developer Platform and Experience engineering team supporting PingOne multi-tenant SaaS. Owns CI/CD pipelines, build systems, self-service developer tooling, platform modernization, operational reliability, and AI-enabled engineering automation. Provides architectural oversight, drives observability and incident response practices, and manages a globally distributed team of senior and staff engineers while improving developer productivity and platform adoption.

Leads a global mechanical engineering team developing orthopedic robotic systems. Responsibilities include mechanical architecture, electromechanical design, CAD, design-for-manufacturability, prototyping, verification and validation, risk management, design controls, supplier qualification, manufacturing transfer, budgeting, and cross-functional technical leadership. The role combines people management with hands-on engineering and requires collaboration across systems, software, electronics, clinical, quality, regulatory, supply chain, and manufacturing teams.

Leads a global Application Engineering organization supporting commercial vehicle and rail customers. Builds technical relationships with OEMs, Tier suppliers, fleets, operators, and partners; translates customer and market insights into new product opportunities; identifies cross-selling and competitive displacement opportunities; establishes global operating practices; develops technical capabilities; and leads customer workshops, trials, issue resolution, and commercialization activities across regions.

The Engineering Project Manager plans, coordinates, monitors, and evaluates institutional and grant-funded projects. Responsibilities include developing timelines and budgets, managing resources, tracking expenditures, ensuring federal grant compliance, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, preparing reports, evaluating outcomes, and maintaining project documentation. The role supports academic programs, workforce initiatives, and institutional priorities while collaborating with faculty, staff, administrators, external partners, and funding agencies.

Leads the firewall infrastructure engineering function, overseeing team performance, operational reliability, lifecycle management, capacity planning, resiliency, monitoring, automation, vendor relationships, and strategic projects. Ensures firewall platforms remain secure, scalable, supportable, and aligned with business and cybersecurity objectives. Manages risks, technical debt, technology roadmaps, infrastructure upgrades, disaster recovery, operational standards, and executive reporting while partnering with architecture, network, cloud, security operations, and infrastructure teams.