Engineering Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical background.
• Hands-on robotics software experience, including ROS 2, navigation software, robot models and kinematics, and device drivers.
• Strong C++ and Python skills.
• At least 3 years of experience managing software engineers.
• Experience delivering software for physical robots.
• Experience developing software used across more than one robot platform or hardware configuration.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing software engineers.
• Experience leading distributed engineering teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience creating and delivering engineering plans with milestones, owners, and dates.
• Ability to work effectively with technical leaders and partner engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or Electrical Engineering.
• Humanoid, mobile manipulator, or legged platform experience.
• Simulation-driven development using Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo, or equivalent, including sim-first bring-up and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Experience with behavior trees, state machines, or task planning software.
• Experience developing shared software platforms used by multiple products.
• Experience working with international engineering teams.
• Familiarity with technology or manufacturing readiness processes.
• Experience with software updates, configuration management, and version control for deployed robot fleets.
• Safety-relevant or regulated software development.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and delivery of the software application stack used across Ford's advanced robotics programs.
• Define delivery plans, milestones, responsibilities, and dependencies.
• Support reuse of common software components across different robot platforms.
• Oversee software for robot description and kinematics, device integration, navigation, manipulation, simulation, and system bring-up.
• Establish software quality, testing, and release practices.
• Track progress, manage risks, and communicate issues with proposed actions.
• Lead, coach, and develop a globally distributed robotics software engineering team.
• Hire engineers as the team and project portfolio grow.
• Set clear goals, responsibilities, and expectations; support professional development and build technical leadership within the team.
• Maintain regular communication and effective working practices across locations and time zones.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and technical problem solving as needed.
• Translate technical direction into practical engineering plans.
• Coordinate software interfaces with robotics platform, data, and infrastructure teams.
• Partner with hardware teams on robot builds and system integration.
• Work with simulation and testing teams to validate software before deployment.
• Provide clear status updates and raise risks early.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up childcare.
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Established and active employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.
• Visa sponsorship is available.
• Domestic relocation is available.