Engineering Manager, Robotics & Autonomy

Ocean Infinity; Greater London, Southampton; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocean Infinity is recruiting an Engineering Manager to lead a group of engineers within the Robotics & Autonomy team. This senior role focuses on people management, career development and building a scalable engineering capability.

You will work with team leads to align leadership, capacity planning and delivery priorities while ensuring high performance and retention across multiple projects. This position emphasizes people development over pure technical ownership.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience managing and developing software engineers.
• Track record of hiring, retaining and developing engineering talent into lead roles.
• Comfort balancing capacity across multiple projects or squads.
• Strong 1:1 coaching and feedback skills with fair performance handling.
• Technical credibility to earn engineers' trust without owning the technology.

Responsibilities

• Line-manage a group of engineers: conduct 1:1s, provide feedback, oversee career development.
• Own performance management, recognition and rewards for engineers.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding and retention across the group.
• Own capacity and resource planning; decide deployment and flag constraints early.
• Allocate engineers to projects and manage workload to deliver on time with quality.
• Collaborate with product and other leads to balance capacity and resolve constraints.
• Build succession and technical leadership within the group; identify capability gaps.
• Protect team health, engagement and working environment; escalate issues that threaten delivery.

Skills

People management

Coaching & feedback

Engineering leadership

Capacity planning

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

ROS

Job description

Ocean Infinity is recruiting an Engineering Manager to lead a group of engineers within the Robotics & Autonomy team. This senior role focuses on people management, career development and building a scalable engineering capability.

You will work with team leads to align leadership, capacity planning and delivery priorities while ensuring high performance and retention across multiple projects. This position emphasizes people development over pure technical ownership.