Engineering Manager
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Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership or management role.
- Proven experience shipping and iterating on user-facing products, with a strong sense of what makes software useful, reliable and delightful
- The ability to move fluently between hands-on engineering and people management
- Strong product instincts and the ability to partner closely with product, design and stakeholders to shape roadmaps, make scope trade-offs and deliver meaningful outcomes
- Solid engineering fundamentals with the ability to set high standards for code quality, system architecture and engineering practices across a team
- Experience building and growing high-performing engineering teams — hiring, developing talent, giving clear feedback, and creating an environment where people do the best work of their careers
- Can balance technical depth with strategic thinking.
- A genuine interest in building software that enables breakthrough scientific and industrial applications, and the ability to translate that ambition into concrete plans a team can rally behind
- Bonus: Previous experience working in an AI/ML environment - you don't need to be an ML engineer, but familiarity with the workflows, tooling and pace of AI teams is a real advantage
- Bonus:
- Upon reading Hamming's You and Your Research, you resonate with quotes such as:
- "Yes, I would like to do first-class work"
- "You should do your job in such a fashion that others can build on top of it, so they will indeed say, 'Yes, I've stood on so and so's shoulders and I saw further.'"
- "Instead of attacking isolated problems, I made the resolution that I would never again solve an isolated problem except as characteristic of a class"
Responsibilities
- Own engineering of the Curie platform
- Architecture: Define and evolve the technical blueprint for Curie, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.
- Architecture:
- Quality: Establish and enforce rigorous standards for code quality, testing, monitoring, and overall system reliability.
- Quality:
- Delivery: Drive efficient and predictable delivery of high-quality software features in alignment with product goals and timelines.
- Delivery:
- Build and scale the team
- Hiring: Lead the recruitment process for new engineers, focusing on attracting top-tier talent that aligns with Orbital's technical and cultural requirements.
- Hiring:
- Mentoring: Provide guidance, support, and professional development opportunities to the engineering team to foster continuous growth and skill enhancement.
- Mentoring:
- Establishing engineering culture as we grow internationally: Define, promote, and maintain a high-performance, collaborative, and inclusive engineering culture across all current and future global offices.
- Establishing engineering culture as we grow internationally:
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package - the ability to own part of Orbital as we grow
- Flexible and generous paid time off
- Excellent health, dental and vision insurance plan
- Regular company off-sites to the USA and beyond
- The experience of working in a cutting-edge organisation dedicated to a better future