Senior Engineering Manager, Embedded OS Platform

Firestorm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Equity grants

Unlimited PTO

Life/Disability insurance

Health/Vision

Job summary

Firestorm is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Firestorm OS team. You will own the team, set technical direction, and drive execution across autonomy, avionics, electrical, mechanical, and systems engineering to evolve the OS platform for the aircraft portfolio.

You will hire and mentor engineers with strong embedded Linux and systems software fundamentals, shaping the platform architecture, interfaces, and reusable software across multiple aircraft configurations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and shipping embedded, systems, or Linux-based software
• 3+ years leading software engineering teams with responsibility for people, execution, and delivery
• Strong C or C++ experience and deep embedded Linux fundamentals
• Experience designing software platforms, APIs, or shared services used across multiple products or systems
• Experience developing Linux applications, system services, networking, and software that interfaces with hardware

Responsibilities

• Lead Firestorm OS — Own the team responsible for the common software platform across Firestorm aircraft
• Drive platform architecture — Define system boundaries, interfaces, services, and abstractions
• Build reusable aircraft software — Lead development of Linux services, communications, media, radios, SDKs, hardware interfaces
• Drive platform execution — Turn aircraft and product needs into clear priorities, technical work, and releases
• Own cross-system integration — Collaborate with autonomy, avionics, payload, electrical, and systems teams
• Set the engineering bar — Establish practices for design, testing, code review, diagnostics, deployment, and release
• Debug the full system — Lead resolution of problems crossing software, Linux, networking, hardware
• Grow the team — Hire, develop, and lead engineers with embedded Linux fundamentals

Skills

Embedded Linux

C/C++

Leadership

System architecture

Job description

Firestorm is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Firestorm OS team. You will own the team, set technical direction, and drive execution across autonomy, avionics, electrical, mechanical, and systems engineering to evolve the OS platform for the aircraft portfolio.

You will hire and mentor engineers with strong embedded Linux and systems software fundamentals, shaping the platform architecture, interfaces, and reusable software across multiple aircraft configurations.