Digital Engineering Manager

istaridigital.ai; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

istaridigital.ai leads a pivotal Customer Success Digital Engineering team and seeks a leadership engineer to blend people management with hands-on technical stewardship. The role oversees Forward Deployed Engineers, guiding design reviews, architecture validation, and cross-functional collaboration in a fast-evolving platform environment.

The position emphasizes execution for a portion of the portfolio while shaping strategy, architecture direction, and team growth, with strong customer-facing

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience in aerospace, systems, mechanical, electrical, or comparable disciplines.
• 3+ years leading or managing technical teams with hands-on technical work and people leadership.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, data pipelines, services, and integrations.
• Hands-on familiarity with MBSE (Cameo, SysML), CAD/PLM (CATIA, Teamcenter), and simulation tools (FEA, CFD).
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own technical execution across a subset of digital engineering initiatives and programs, including design review and architecture validation.
• Define product scope and technical approach for new capabilities and contribute architectural direction.
• Mentor and coach Forward Deployed Engineers, provide design feedback and career development support.
• Drive planning, prioritization, and delivery across multiple concurrent efforts, scaling lean processes as needed.
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex engineering and integration challenges, including customer-facing problem solving.
• Translate customer needs into executable technical plans and communicate tradeoffs to varied audiences.
• Identify gaps in tooling, processes, and capabilities; propose improvements and reusable patterns.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Software fundamentals

Communication skills

Tools

MBSE Cameo

SysML

CATIA

Teamcenter

FEA/CFD tools

Job description

Role overview

This leadership role sits within a Customer Success Digital Engineering organization, reporting to the Director of Digital Engineering. The position blends people management with hands-on technical stewardship of Forward Deployed Engineers who build software on a proprietary platform. The manager owns execution for a portion of the portfolio while helping shape strategy, architecture direction, and team growth in a fast-evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Own technical execution across a subset of digital engineering initiatives and programs, including design review, architecture validation, and quality assurance
• Define product scope and technical approach for new capabilities, contributing thought leadership on the platform and its applications
• Manage, mentor, and coach a team of Forward Deployed Engineers, providing design feedback, code review, and career development support
• Drive planning, prioritization, and delivery across multiple concurrent efforts, scaling lean team processes as the organization grows
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex engineering and integration challenges, including direct customer-facing problem solving
• Partner cross-functionally to translate customer needs into executable technical plans and communicate tradeoffs to mixed audiences
• Identify gaps in tooling, process, and capabilities, proposing improvements and reusable technical patterns

Requirements

• 7+ years of engineering experience in aerospace, systems, mechanical, electrical, or comparable disciplines
• 3+ years leading or managing technical teams with a demonstrated ability to balance hands-on technical work and people leadership
• Working knowledge of software fundamentals including APIs, data pipelines, services, and integrations
• Hands-on familiarity with engineering tool ecosystems such as MBSE (Cameo, SysML), CAD/PLM (CATIA, Teamcenter), plus requirements systems and simulation tools (FEA, CFD)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders

Nice to have

• Background in aerospace, defense, or other complex engineered systems domains
• Exposure to model extraction, automation, and digital thread concepts
• Experience operating in product-oriented environments
• Comfort working through ambiguity and shaping roles, processes, and scope as the organization matures

Benefits and work setup

• Posted annual compensation range of $145,000 to $215,000
• Direct partnership with the Director of Digital Engineering and meaningful influence over how digital engineering is practiced
• Outcomes-driven culture that emphasizes focus, finished work, evidence-based feedback, and collaborative fellowship