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Sr. Manager, Software Development

North Reading, Massachusetts, United StatesFull-time$220k–$298k2026-11-13

Core

Lead engineering teams to design and deliver on-robot software solutions for a strategic robotics initiative, focusing on fleet coordination, continuous learning, and customer integrations.

Role type

Senior Manager, Software Development

Builds

Complex distributed systems for fleet coordination, continuous learning, and customer integrations

Domain

Robotics, AI-native development, fleet coordination

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Engineering team management, ROS or similar middleware, large-scale business-critical software systems, stakeholder management, strategic narrative writing, AI-native development practices

Preferred skills

Robotic manipulation, SLAM, navigation, perception, whole-body-control, simulation, digital twins, ML infrastructure, foundation models, data collection pipelines, optimization algorithms, operations research

Technologies

ROS, LLM, VLM, VLA, Kiro, Copilot

Responsibilities

Design team structures and strategies, lead software development execution, manage and scale SW developer teams, hire and coach talent, decompose complex problems, establish workflows and SLAs, manage stakeholder relationships, present to senior leadership, champion AI-native development practices

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities