Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

Lead and grow the mechanical engineering team for sUAS airframes, structures, mechanisms, and integration hardware. Own technical direction, design standards, change control, and configuration management. Drive producibility from concept through qualification into production, represent ME in cross‑functional IPTs, and support testing and fielding. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while partnering with manufacturing, quality, propulsion, and program management to deliver producible aircraft on aggressive timelines.

Lead a multi-discipline mechanical design and configuration management team for aerospace flight hardware and GSE. Provide technical and programmatic oversight, enforce product baselines and design practices (Siemens NX/Teamcenter, GD&T), drive DFMA and continuous improvement, manage staffing, schedules, budgets, and cross-functional coordination, and support proposal BOEs and performance metrics.

The Mobile Engineering Manager will lead a team of Android and iOS engineers, manage app feature development, mentor team members, and collaborate across departments to ensure project delivery in wearable technology.

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 and build a new San Diego product engineering team for provider-facing sleep health diagnostics. Hire, develop, and retain engineers; set team norms and AI-native development methodology; own delivery, quality, security, and roadmap execution; partner with Product, Design, platform teams, and enterprise architects; run reviews, remove blockers, and grow engineers into senior technical roles.

Lead a 10–20 person software team through the full SDLC in an Agile environment, delivering real-time/mission-critical software. Manage planning, execution, EVMS/Agile metrics, risks, cross-discipline collaboration, technical mentoring, and functional HR responsibilities.

Lead and grow remote engineering teams to design, architect, and deliver cloud-native, high-availability education platforms. Combine people management and hands-on development using Agile, CI/CD, IaC, and monitoring. Modernize monoliths, build APIs, ensure reliability at scale, and apply generative AI and responsible AI practices to improve user engagement and product outcomes.

Leads a global network engineering team in designing and operating secure networks. Responsible for network infrastructure, security initiatives, and continuous improvement of services.

Lead and grow a full‑stack team building the Console, Tiger CLI, and MCP integrations. Own customer-facing domains (UI, billing, observability), set technical direction for a JavaScript/Go stack, hire and mentor engineers, establish engineering practices, and partner with Product and Design to deliver polished features. Be hands-on and drive organizational change during growth.

Leads and develops a 5–10-person software engineering team, sets technical strategy, guides architecture and API design, and partners with product, design, data science, and business stakeholders. Owns product delivery, reliability, observability, incident response, security, automation, testing, continuous delivery, and operational health while hiring talent and fostering an inclusive, high-performing team culture.

Lead and grow engineering teams to improve delivery velocity, remove cross-functional friction, introduce lightweight processes, prevent burnout, and contribute to architecture while hiring and developing engineers.

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 an engineering team building core VM and container platform capabilities for Azure. Drive technical strategy, execution, incident resolution, cross-team coordination, and scalable, secure platform innovations.

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 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 a senior engineering team building dashboards, notebooks, visualizations, and AI-assisted investigative tools. Partner with Product to drive roadmap and delivery, shape technical direction with staff+ engineers, mentor engineers, and ensure performance and scalability of analytical surfaces at enterprise scale.

Leads QA and application delivery across Tax & Licensing and Short-Term Rental platforms. Manages distributed employees and contractors, owns release and deployment processes, builds unified QA pipelines, expands test automation, establishes DORA delivery metrics, and reports release health and risks. Partners with engineering and product leadership while evaluating AI-assisted testing tools and developing team capabilities.

Manage and develop a design engineering team for aerospace/space hardware, providing technical oversight of designs, drawings, and design reviews. Ensure product quality, schedule, and cost objectives; coordinate with analysis, manufacturing, quality, and program management. Drive process standardization, DFMA, continuous improvement, resource management, and proposal BOEs. Lead morale, talent development, and change initiatives.

Lead a cross-discipline engineering team to deliver production-ready, AI-enabled solutions across the full lifecycle. Coach engineers and data scientists, manage a portfolio of engagements, act as player‑coach on select projects, strengthen multidisciplinary practices, and champion responsible, hypervelocity AI engineering and reusable accelerators.

Lead and scale distributed engineering teams, drive technical best practices, manage project timelines and risks, oversee hiring and career development, and ensure scalable, secure, maintainable architectures while collaborating with product and stakeholders.

Lead the Lister engineering domain, owning roadmap, delivery, technical health, partner data quality, and team growth. Manage three pods via team leads, stay hands-on with architecture and code reviews, partner cross-functionally, own intake and reliability, and hire/mentor engineers to scale backend services and data pipelines that integrate messy third-party partner systems.

Manage two engineering teams building Ethereum developer tooling (Hardhat and EDR). Provide technical leadership, own product roadmap, ensure timely delivery, conduct code and design reviews, mentor engineers, improve hiring and performance processes, and align stakeholders and community.