Top Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

Lead and grow a 5–10 engineer autonomy integration team for V-BAT/X-BAT, owning delivery, hiring, mentoring, and technical health. Drive integration of autonomy software (mission behaviors, VTOL transitions, multi-agent coordination), collaborate tightly with aircraft, perception, and capability teams, run ICDs and field tests, and support live exercises and deployments (20–30% travel).

Lead day-to-day operations for multiple engineering teams, drive sprint planning and quarterly roadmaps, remove blockers, improve delivery processes, coach and develop engineers, review technical and architectural decisions, coordinate cross-team dependencies, partner with product and design, and track engineering metrics to continuously improve quality and throughput.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a development team, set technical direction, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate cross-functionally to enhance a SaaS application for governance, risk, and compliance.

The Engineering Manager will lead the Web & Add-ins team, driving product development and team optimization while ensuring project success and best practices.

The role involves leading technical teams to develop high-quality software, mentoring engineers, and contributing to open source projects. Responsibilities include planning, execution, and enhancing the Linux user experience across various teams and technologies.

Lead and grow a full‑stack engineering team building customer data and identity solutions. Own architecture, APIs, component libraries, code quality, hiring, mentoring, roadmap execution, and cross‑functional collaboration. Contribute code for high‑impact items and ensure scalable systems and agile best practices.

The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor engineering teams, define technical strategies, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive project success with a focus on high-quality software delivery.

The role involves leading hardware engineering teams through the product development process, managing program milestones, addressing issues, and ensuring product launch readiness.

Lead a team of backend engineers to build cloud inference services on Kubernetes, focusing on operational excellence, incident response, and engineering best practices.

Lead and manage the Segmentation and Insights platforms, focusing on autonomy and AI-driven solutions, while ensuring operational maturity and team growth.

As Engineering Manager for Code Plane, you will lead a team to develop and enhance tools that support code automation and AI integration while collaborating across functions to meet customer needs.

Lead 2–3 software teams (12–20 engineers), owning people management, hiring, retention, and stakeholder communication. Drive adoption of AI tools, guide technical debt and platform investment decisions, and partner with tech leads and Product Owners to keep delivery aligned and healthy in a regulated payments environment.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead and develop an engineering team, ensuring technical quality, fostering growth, and guiding product initiatives, while utilizing AI effectively.

Lead multiple teams in building production quality AI systems, ensuring reliable delivery and effective people management while establishing standards and practices.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team to enhance hospital operations through AI software, focusing on user-facing features and technical management.

Lead and scale the engineering team, hire engineers, set technical direction, ensure engineering excellence, and foster a high-performance culture.

Lead and grow a small engineering team building scalable, secure, HIPAA-compliant patient and clinician-facing web and mobile systems. Drive architectural decisions, CI/CD, feature-flagged small-batch delivery, AI-native developer workflows, and operational excellence. Partner with product, design, clinical, and ops to translate requirements into reliable, accessible software and hire, mentor, and raise delivery capability across the team.

Lead and manage a team building and operating Topstep's Trading Platform. Accountable for team hiring, development, reliability, on-call/incident response, delivery cadence, and cross-functional partnership. Provide technical guidance for backend/distributed, real-time systems and ensure observability, performance, and operational excellence while balancing feature delivery and technical investment.

Lead engineering operations team supporting R&D, QA/Test, production and repair labs. Manage OEM production support, process optimization, budgets, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement using Lean/Six Sigma. Mentor technicians and project engineers, drive manufacturing efficiency, and oversee project delivery, resource allocation, and operational metrics.

Manage and mentor an engineering squad while contributing technically. Own delivery, sprint execution, KPIs, hiring, security, reliability, and advocate AI-assisted development to accelerate engineering productivity.

Lead architecture and delivery of real-time stream-processing pipelines using Apache Flink and Java. Design scalable, event-driven, low-latency systems; optimize performance and reliability; deploy and manage cloud/containerized services; enforce CI/CD, testing, and observability; troubleshoot production issues; collaborate with cross-functional teams; and mentor engineering teams.

Lead a backend engineering team as a player-coach building payment processing, fraud detection, compliance, and user management systems. Architect distributed microservices, drive technical decisions, write code, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-team integrations, and ensure reliable, regulatory-compliant, high-scale financial infrastructure.

Lead a distributed team of engineers overseeing Linux kernel delivery for Ubuntu, ensuring quality, security, and effective collaborative practices.

As an Engineering Manager, lead a team of engineers, coaching their development while ensuring quality results and implementing engineering processes.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team to optimize engineering and operations processes, ensuring quality managed services while collaborating with customers and stakeholders.