CareerPlan

Senior Manager of Software Engineering

US - Texas - AustinFull-time$198k–$273k2026-09-29 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead the Aerial team to build the processing pipeline that transforms raw drone images into georeferenced, survey-grade maps and serves imagery/terrain at scale for construction, energy, mining, and agriculture customers.

Role type

Senior Manager of Software Engineering (Aerial Platform)

Builds

Geospatial mapping platform, processing pipelines, and systems serving imagery/terrain/measurements

Domain

Geospatial technology, drone/UAV data processing, cloud systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Technical leadership, hands-on coding (web/backend/cloud), AI integration, product roadmap ownership, quality/reliability metrics, stakeholder management

Preferred skills

Geospatial/mapping/3D/imagery experience, survey/construction/energy industry background, drone/UAV operations or Part 107 certification

Technologies

Cloud systems, web frameworks, backend systems, AI/ML tools, observability platforms

Responsibilities

Lead delivery of large technical initiatives, grow engineers into technical leaders, integrate AI into team workflows, partner with Product on roadmap, debug and prototype alongside team, ensure system reliability via metrics, represent team to leadership and customers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC leader