Job Summary:
Echodyne offers innovative radar technology for various industries, and they are seeking a high-caliber Senior Engineering Manager. This role involves leading a technical team, driving the end-to-end delivery process, and ensuring the integration of user feedback into the technical roadmap.
Responsibilities:
• Build & Grow: Directly lead the recruitment and onboarding of a technical team designed to support a fast-growing organization.
• Drive Execution: Own the end-to-end delivery process (requirements → design → execution → delivery) and ensure the team meets its commitments to the business and the customer.
• Shepherd Innovation: Drive system design for real-world environments—addressing edge deployment, security, and reliability—to ensure durability and high performance.
• Connect with the Field: Build end-to-end systems used in real missions, ensuring that field-user feedback is integrated into the technical roadmap.
Qualifications:
Required:
• At least 5 years of engineering management experience with a proven track record of hiring, managing, and scaling high-performance technical teams.
• Deep technical background with the ability to drive innovation across a tiered application stack.
• Familiar with modern programming languages and frameworks such as Rust, React, and Python.
• Solid understanding of software architecture composed of front-end, middleware, and complex integrations with external systems.
• Extensive experience working in companies focused on delivering customer-facing products.
• Clear history of taking ownership of the full lifecycle—from planning through delivery—ensuring software meets strict commitments.
• Direct experience building and scaling highly available, mission-critical systems.
• Experience elevating engineering standards, including design clarity, code quality, and pragmatic development practices.
Preferred:
• A clear and repeatable track record of identifying and recruiting technical talent in rapid-growth or R&D (0 → 1) environments.
• A strong bias toward action combined with sound engineering judgment; you operate with high autonomy and a relentless focus on outcomes.
• Comfortable leading and collaborating across diverse disciplines, including research, hardware, software, and data science.
• You lead with a low-ego, high-ownership approach, prioritizing the mission and the user above all else.
Company:
Echodyne develops and manufactures meta-materials-based radar technologies. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Kirkland, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.