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Salary: USD 164,594 - 246,788 / annual
Echodyne is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for its Data Platform team. The company develops compact solid-state beam-steering radar technology for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft, drones, and critical infrastructure security applications.
In this role, you will lead the engineering team responsible for building and operating the data platform that connects Echodyne's sensors and radars through EchoWare to cloud services and internal data systems. Your team will securely move operational radar data into the platform and develop reusable services that support products and teams across the company.
You will stay close to the technology, understand technical tradeoffs, and ask the right questions to support and vet important technical decisions. You create conditions for engineers and technical leads to own detailed architecture and implementation while ensuring decisions are pragmatic, technically sound, and aligned with business needs.
You have experience building cloud and distributed systems from the ground up and understand that successful 0-to-1 development requires deliberate choices about what must be built now, what needs a strong foundation, and what can reasonably wait. You are a strategic thinker who can use the systems being built today as a beachhead for broader services, capabilities, and product opportunities over time.
You are also a team builder and strong cross-functional partner, comfortable leading work across edge and cloud environments and collaborating closely with Analytics, Research, Product, and other engineering teams. You will establish clear priorities, accountability, engineering practices, and operational maturity as the team grows.
Note: Echodyne's technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government. As part of the application process, you will be asked to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen, green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S.
REQUIREMENTS:
• 5+ years managing engineering teams, including hiring, developing talent, setting priorities, and driving accountability
• Proven experience building new systems, platforms, or products from the ground up in environments where requirements and architecture were still evolving
• Strong understanding of edge computing and cloud platforms, with practical experience building production services, APIs, distributed systems, and data pipelines, particularly for data-intensive systems with real-time delivery requirements
• Comfortable evaluating architecture and design choices, identifying risks and unnecessary complexity, and helping teams make pragmatic technical decisions
• Experience building shared platforms, APIs, or services that other engineering teams depend on
• Ability to establish clear priorities, accountability, engineering practices, and operational maturity as the team grows
