Software Engineer Manager

SAIC•University, FL

About The Position

SAIC is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a multidisciplinary software team developing AI-enabled training and decision-support solutions, integrating intelligent capabilities with existing virtual simulation environments, and adapting those capabilities for immersive, multi-platform part-task training. This role will oversee the design, development, integration, testing, and delivery of software products that improve training effectiveness, accelerate content development, enhance simulation-based learning, and provide actionable performance insights for customers. The ideal candidate brings a strong blend of software delivery leadership, game or simulation development experience, agile execution, customer engagement, technical documentation, and team mentorship. This position requires a hands-on leader who can translate customer needs into executable software plans, guide cross-functional teams, manage delivery schedules, and ensure high-quality technical outcomes across AI, simulation, immersive training, and interactive learning applications.

Requirements

Strong blend of software delivery leadership
Game or simulation development experience
Agile execution
Customer engagement
Technical documentation
Team mentorship
Hands-on leader who can translate customer needs into executable software plans
Guide cross-functional teams
Manage delivery schedules
Ensure high-quality technical outcomes across AI, simulation, immersive training, and interactive learning applications

Responsibilities

Lead software development teams building AI-enabled applications, simulation-integrated tools, immersive training experiences, and multi-platform instructional technologies.
Oversee the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, documentation, testing, debugging, integration, deployment support, and sustainment.
Collaborate with customers, subject matter experts, product owners, engineers, designers, and technical leads to define user needs, system capabilities, software requirements, and delivery priorities.
Guide the integration of intelligent software capabilities with existing simulation platforms, training systems, content workflows, and operational learning environments.
Manage agile development practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, team ceremonies, release planning, risk tracking, and transparent progress reporting.
Establish operational objectives, work plans, delivery schedules, and performance expectations for subordinate managers, technical specialists, and cross-functional contributors.
Delegate assignments across software engineering, design, production, UI/UX, testing, technical art, and integration resources while ensuring alignment to customer outcomes.
Ensure software standards, documentation practices, version control, quality assurance, cybersecurity considerations, and technical review processes are consistently followed.
Support the development of autonomous services, desktop applications, web applications, scripts, utility programs, simulation interfaces, and interactive training tools.
Analyze technical challenges related to system intent, input/output requirements, data acquisition, simulation state, user interaction, performance, scalability, and integration constraints.
Lead technical discussions, customer briefings, internal reviews, and stakeholder updates related to software delivery, project status, schedule risks, technical tradeoffs, and contractual requirements.
Contribute to proposals, estimates, technical approaches, staffing plans, RFP responses, and growth opportunities involving AI-enabled training, simulation, and immersive learning solutions.
Mentor developers, designers, producers, and technical specialists to strengthen team performance, professional growth, delivery discipline, and product quality.
Identify opportunities to improve software pipelines, development workflows, reuse of capabilities, automation, test practices, and cross-platform delivery efficiency.