- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- San DiegoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jul 22, 2026
- Salary
- $117,500–$179,250 a year
Full-time
Manager, Software Engineering
Job description
The Manager, Software Engineering, leads a software QA, automation, and DevSecOps team, growing the people, processes, and tools that systematically verify mission systems software and maintain robust development and test infrastructure. As a member of the Engineering management team, the Manager defines and executes the team's strategy, budget, staffing, and development, and coordinates across software engineering, the system test team, programs, and information security to reduce software quality and program risk.
AV isn’t for everyone. We hire the curious, the relentless, the mission-obsessed. The best of the best.
We don’t just build defense technology—we redefine what’s possible.
Job responsibilities
- Manages a group of software QA, automation, and DevOps engineers, including budget planning, staffing, training, performance evaluation and career development.
- Defines the team's roles, ways of working, and a clear scope that complements (rather than duplicates) the software development and system test teams
- Sets the strategy for test coverage, automation frameworks, and CI/CD and lab infrastructure across programs
- Establishes and owns QA standards, metrics, and reporting; the bug reporting and review process; and go/no-go release recommendations to the system test team
- Leads software risk identification, tracking, and mitigation across programs
- Collaborates with software engineering, the system test team, programs, and information security to align quality goals and engineering processes
- Works in an Agile environment to coordinate the team's work including scope, scheduling and resourcing
- Frequently interacts with subordinate supervisors, customers and/or functional peer group managers, normally involving matters between functional areas
Job requirements
- BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in software quality, test automation, and/or DevOps/CI-CD
- At least 2+ years in a supervisory or technical lead role, successfully managing or leading a technical team
- Experience defining test strategy, automation frameworks, and quality processes for complex software
- Experienced with modern development and CI/CD tooling (e.g., Git/GitLab, CI pipelines, containerization) and Linux environments
- Demonstrated ability to work across engineering, test, and program teams to drive quality and reduce risk
- Occasionally may be required to travel within the Continental U.S.
- Advanced degree is desired