Autonomy Engineering Manager — Spacecraft AI Leader

Socket.dev; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 205,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health

Dental

Vision

HRA/HSA options

PTO and paid holidays

401K

Parental Leave

Job summary

True Anomaly seeks an Engineering Manager, Autonomy, to build and lead a team of autonomy engineers developing multi-agent resource allocation systems and edge‑deployed AI for spacecraft operations. You will grow the team, manage performance, and align with the autonomy roadmap across scheduling, replanning, and distributed coordination.

Your focus is people leadership with strategic technical direction, architecture reviews, and maintaining credibility while delivering rugged autonomy systems

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in a technical field with relevant experience.
• 8+ years in autonomous systems, robotics, AI/ML or aerospace domains.
• At least 4 years in people management leading teams of 4+ engineers.
• Ability to translate strategy into team execution and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction on multi-agent coordination, edge deployment, and validation for constrained problems.
• Review designs for combinatorial optimization, stochastic planning, and distributed coordination.
• Lead the team through design, implementation, and verification with ~35% time on technical work.
• Define autonomy standards, explainability, and validation for high-stakes deployments.
• Drive compute allocation, edge optimization, and real-time performance trade‑offs.
• Maintain credibility in operations research, RL, and edge AI deployment.
• Define team roadmap with autonomy leadership and balance near-term demos with long-term capability.

Skills

Autonomy systems

People management

Leadership

Technical foundation

Domain knowledge

Communication

Strategic thinking

Process & execution

Collaboration

Security clearance

Education

Master's degree in computer science, aerospace engineering, robotics, applied mathematics, operations research

Ph.D. or Bachelor's degree with equivalent professional experience

Job description

True Anomaly seeks an Engineering Manager, Autonomy, to build and lead a team of autonomy engineers developing multi-agent resource allocation systems and edge‑deployed AI for spacecraft operations. You will grow the team, manage performance, and align with the autonomy roadmap across scheduling, replanning, and distributed coordination.

Your focus is people leadership with strategic technical direction, architecture reviews, and maintaining credibility while delivering rugged autonomy systems