Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Richmond, VA

Leads a multidisciplinary physical infrastructure engineering organization supporting global AI/GPU data centers. Owns engineering standards, specifications, technical decisions, infrastructure reliability, facility due diligence, vendor relationships, root-cause analysis, compliance reviews, audit programs, corrective actions, and engineering talent development. Partners with operations, construction, deployment, legal, and EHS teams to ensure scalable, compliant, reliable data center infrastructure.

Leads the electrical testing function, including test equipment specification, design, fabrication, validation, installation, troubleshooting, and production support. Manages and develops test engineering employees, drives safety and continuous improvement initiatives, coordinates cross-functional manufacturing activities, and resolves electrical design, equipment, and production issues. The role requires expertise in electrical testing, controls, schematics, safe work practices, regulatory standards, and operational performance improvement.

Lead a team of firmware and ML engineers developing, optimizing, and deploying AI models on edge devices. Set technical strategy for embedded systems, latency, power, memory, and model performance; provide hands-on leadership; partner with Product and Hardware teams to ship mass-production products; shape roadmaps; and hire, mentor, and develop engineering talent.

Lead the POS Payments Experience engineering team, delivering reliable Android and web-based payment products. Drive planning, cross-team execution, technical direction, architecture, quality, monitoring, and production issue resolution. Partner with product and UX leaders, hire and develop engineers, and champion AI-assisted development practices.

Lead and develop a team of process engineers to design, implement, and optimize manufacturing processes. Drive continuous improvement using lean and Six Sigma, monitor KPIs, manage projects, budgets, and cross-functional integration, ensure regulatory compliance, and report on process performance while staying current on industry technologies.

Leads and manages quality engineers responsible for automation, functional, API, integration, data, performance, security, and AI-enabled testing. Provides technical direction, reviews automation code, improves regression health, oversees release readiness and quality metrics, and supports compliance requirements. Develops staff, manages performance, allocates resources, oversees vendors and budgets, and partners cross-functionally to improve testability, resolve defects, and modernize quality engineering practices.

Leads and develops a globally distributed engineering team while shaping technical strategy, modernizing a SaaS platform, and building scalable solutions with .NET, React, APIs, and cloud technologies. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, influencing architecture, improving CI/CD, reliability, delivery practices, and advancing responsible AI adoption across engineering.

Leads and develops a globally distributed software engineering team while remaining 50% hands-on. Responsibilities include driving technical strategy and modernization, building scalable SaaS solutions with .NET, React, APIs, and cloud technologies, improving CI/CD and reliability, mentoring engineers, influencing architecture, and advancing responsible AI use across engineering.

Leads and develops a team responsible for Microsoft 365 and modern workplace services. Provides hands-on technical leadership across endpoint management, identity, collaboration, automation, security, and device management. Oversees technical design, implementation, troubleshooting, escalations, service operations, roadmaps, governance, documentation, and continuous improvement while partnering with other IT teams and organizational leadership.

Lead and mentor software engineering teams across multiple product pods. Provide technical direction, oversee production services and operational readiness, manage on-call and incident response, support hiring and career development, and drive cross-functional planning and delivery. The role requires strong people-management experience, technical judgment, production-service expertise, and the ability to work asynchronously in a distributed startup environment.

Leads Test Engineering for large-form-factor electrical products, low-voltage switchgear, power distribution equipment, and related assemblies. Manages personnel, hiring, development, performance, budgets, forecasts, test strategies, equipment procurement, and continuous improvement. Ensures compliance with electrical standards and customer requirements while overseeing factory acceptance, production, validation, troubleshooting, specialized test equipment, and automated test software development.

Leads a full-stack engineering team while remaining hands-on with AWS infrastructure, cloud security, observability, reliability, and AI-first development practices. Owns AWS CDK architecture, serverless scalability, internal tooling, engineering standards, and product development using TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, React, and related technologies. Manages engineers, partners with product and Salesforce teams, coordinates distributed development, and supports hiring and team growth.

Leads and develops a team of GTM engineers building AI agents, workflows, integrations, and internal infrastructure for marketing, sales, and customer success. Establishes engineering standards, documentation, review, ownership, and rollback practices; partners on roadmap planning; manages technical vendor relationships; and coordinates transitions from prototypes to long-term engineering ownership. The role remains hands-on while hiring, mentoring, and improving team operations in a fully remote environment.

Leads software engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality solutions for CMS Hospital Quality Reporting systems. Manages hiring, performance, coaching, team development, resource planning, engineering standards, architectural decisions, code reviews, and delivery processes. Collaborates with Product Managers to align engineering work with product goals while fostering technical excellence, continuous improvement, and an inclusive remote-first culture.

Manages EMI engineering and high-power EMI/EMC testing for naval and maritime power systems. Responsibilities include developing test plans and procedures, executing tests, managing lab resources and ISO 17025 compliance, coordinating technical teams, overseeing project schedules and risks, reporting results, and supporting business development. The role requires extensive experience with DoD EMI standards, energy storage and power conversion equipment, technical leadership, and customer liaison responsibilities.

Leads Site Reliability Engineering teams responsible for reliability, availability, incident response, disaster recovery, automation, telemetry, security, and compliance for Microsoft Substrate services in regulated environments. Establishes SLOs and SLIs, drives operational excellence, participates in on-call rotations, leads post-incident improvements, develops senior engineers, and influences cross-organizational engineering strategy.

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.

Lead two or more software engineering teams building and operating TopstepX, a real-time trading platform. Responsibilities include coaching and developing engineers, hiring and capacity planning, prioritizing delivery amid changing needs, and ensuring system availability, performance, quality, and resilience. The role requires leadership of production systems, incident response, observability, reliability investments, and collaboration with Product and business stakeholders.

Lead a new product pod from concept to market while remaining hands-on in Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, and Azure. Set technical direction, design architecture, write production code, instrument the member funnel, and deliver secure, scalable software. Hire and coach senior engineers, manage delivery and incidents, collaborate across product and business teams, and build HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant systems in a regulated healthcare environment.

Lead delivery of US network infrastructure initiatives while maintaining hands-on technical involvement. Set engineering and operational standards, review designs, manage incidents, drive cross-team decisions, and build automation, observability, reliability, provisioning, and CI/CD practices. Coordinate across engineering and international teams, turn operational issues into prioritized backlogs, and ensure tools, workflows, documentation, and runbooks are adopted. Help establish a new network infrastructure organization and eventually scale its team and scope.

Lead and grow an engineering team building decentralized finance products. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, managing roadmaps and workflows, overseeing React and Solidity development, maintaining architecture and code quality, improving development and deployment processes, managing quality assurance and security, monitoring systems, and communicating progress to stakeholders.

Engineering Manager responsible for leading a software engineering team, managing sprint planning and delivery, maintaining engineering quality standards, mentoring engineers, identifying risks, and partnering with Product, Design, and the Director of Engineering. This player-coach role requires technical leadership, experience with Bubble.io or low-code platforms, agile delivery expertise, and support for hiring and onboarding as the company grows.

Lead 10–12 engineers across secrets and certificate management teams. Own delivery, hiring, performance management, technical direction, reliability, engineering quality, customer collaboration, and process improvement. Remain technically involved through code and design reviews while guiding architecture, security, observability, incident response, and operational excellence across cloud, self-hosted, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments.

Leads and grows the engineering team, oversees customer implementations and product delivery, manages stakeholders, balances customization with core product development, and establishes engineering quality and reliability practices. The role also remains hands-on with TypeScript and Node.js coding, code reviews, debugging, and production support. Experience with AI products, healthcare workflows, HIPAA, EHR integrations, and early-stage startups is valuable.

Lead the Data Streaming engineering sub-team responsible for reliable, scalable ingestion, normalization, and routing of cybersecurity telemetry. Manage and grow a 6–7 engineer team, establish SLOs and on-call processes, maintain schemas and data contracts, improve pipeline reliability and scalability, and collaborate with Security Research, Database Platform, and Asset Inventory teams. The role requires hands-on expertise with streaming architectures, cloud-native operations, data quality, and pipeline observability.