Senior Engineering Manager, Robotics Software
Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco Bay Area, CA$249k - $299kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Senior Engineering Manager leading the Autonomous Factory Systems robotics software team, focusing on perception, planning, behaviors, control, and orchestration between robots and manufacturing machines, with a people-first leadership approach while guiding technical direction.
Responsibilities
- Own the people leadership of your engineers: hiring, onboarding, mentorship, career growth, and performance.
- Build a hiring engine for robotics talent — define the bar, run a strong interview process, and help recruit a top-tier team across perception, planning, behaviors, and control.
- Ensure engineers are engaged, growing, and set up to do their best work; regularly assess team health and address issues before they become problems.
- Have real input into technical direction and where we invest headcount, in close partnership with the engineers and technical leads who drive architecture and design.
- Partner with Hardware, Controls, Product, and Operations to translate business priorities into a sequenced roadmap, and make sure the team is resourced and organized to deliver it.
- Continuously improve the team's engineering practices and developer lifecycle: planning, design review, code review, testing, simulation, deployment, on-call, and incident response.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of engineering management experience leading robotics, autonomy, or other complex technical teams in production.
- A genuine passion for people management — you care about your engineers' growth and happiness as much as you care about what the team ships.
- A track record of hiring and building strong technical teams, including for hard-to-fill or specialized roles.
- Technical fluency in robotics concepts (perception, planning, behaviors, control, collision avoidance) to have informed conversations about tradeoffs, evaluate technical leads' proposals, and contribute a useful point of view on direction and prioritization — without needing to be the architect yourself.
- Strong judgment on organizational design: how to structure a team, allocate headcount across projects, and balance depth vs. breadth as the stack grows.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional partnership skills — you can align engineers, technical leads, hardware/controls partners, and leadership.
- A track record of running a healthy team: clear expectations, direct feedback, and a strong sense of ownership among your engineers.
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with high stakes, physical systems, and short iteration cycles.
- M.S. in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
Skills
Required:People managementRobotics concepts (perception, planning, behaviors, control, collision avoidance)Technical leadership and architectural judgmentCross-functional collaboration
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
- 401k
- Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
- Flexible vacation policy
- Equity
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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