Robotics & Autonomy Engineering Manager

Ocean Infinity; Porto; On-site; EUR 86,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocean Infinity is seeking an Engineering Manager to own people, organizational capability and engineering capacity of the Robotics & Autonomy team.

This is a senior people-leadership role: rather than owning the technical architecture or product priority, your role is to make sure the engineers in your group are well managed, performing to the best of their abilities, and developed and deployed against the organisation’s priorities.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience managing and developing software engineers.
• Track record hiring, retaining and developing engineering talent.
• Strong 1:1 coaching and feedback skills.

Responsibilities

• Line-manage a group of engineers: conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and develop their careers.
• Own performance management, recognition and reward for your engineers.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding and retention across your group.
• Own capacity and resource planning – decide where engineering resources are deployed and flag constraints early.
• Allocate engineers to projects and manage workload to ensure timely delivery and quality.
• Collaborate with product teams and other leads to balance capacity and constraints.
• Build the succession and technical leadership pipeline within your group.
• Protect team health, engagement and working environment; escalate issues affecting delivery.

Skills

People management

Engineering leadership

Recruiting

Coaching

Capacity planning

Technical credibility

Tools

ROS

Job description

Ocean Infinity is seeking an Engineering Manager to own people, organizational capability and engineering capacity of the Robotics & Autonomy team.

This is a senior people-leadership role: rather than owning the technical architecture or product priority, your role is to make sure the engineers in your group are well managed, performing to the best of their abilities, and developed and deployed against the organisation’s priorities.