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Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Sydney, New South Wales💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-07 → 2026-09-24

Core

Lead groups of teams to deliver integrated software for autonomous maritime systems, including autonomy, simulation, data processing, and command and control.

Role type

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Builds

Next generation autonomous underwater and maritime vehicle platforms (e.g., Dive-XL, Copperhead)

Domain

Defense, Maritime Operations, Autonomous Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Software engineering leadership, end-to-end product ownership, multi-stakeholder roadmap management, architecture design for robotic systems, team building and mentoring, budget and risk management

Preferred skills

Military mission system delivery, backend/embedded software (C/C++/Rust/Go), frontend (TypeScript/React), RTOS, horizontally scaled cloud technologies, embedded software in robotics, modeling and simulation, communications protocols (CAN, Ethernet, ARINC, MIL-STD), high assurance safety critical software (DO-178, IEC 61508), sensor/actuator interfaces, systems engineering

Technologies

C, C++, Rust, Go, TypeScript, React, RTOS, CAN, Ethernet, ARINC-825, ARINC-429, MIL-STD-1553, DO-178, IEC 61508

Responsibilities

Design and deliver multi-year software roadmaps across multiple product groups; manage architecture selection and design for robotic systems; lead a multi-disciplinary engineering group of 10-24 members; define and communicate group goals derived from organizational strategy; manage allocated budget and programmatic risk; mentor engineers and managers; act as subject matter expert for software engineering in a multi-stakeholder environment

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC manager leading teams

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