Senior Engineering Manager, Systems

Jobtailor; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Austin, TX seeks a Senior Systems Engineer Manager to lead and grow a team across software, networking, RF, and hardware‑adjacent debugging. You will own system health, drive performance monitoring, and ensure release readiness while guiding cross‑functional teams through complex multi‑domain challenges.

You will translate field and customer requirements into actionable constraints, coach engineers on deep vs wide analysis, and represent Systems Engineering in Architecture Review

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience with distributed, real‑time, or multi‑domain systems in production.
• 2+ years of managing engineers across multiple technical domains.
• A track record as an expert debugger for cross‑system issues.
• Ability to span software, RF, networking, firmware and hardware to root‑cause hard failures.
• Experience owning system health, performance monitoring, or release‑readiness processes.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals and real‑time/low‑latency middleware.
• Comfort with hardware bench diagnostics and firmware‑level behavior analysis.
• Understanding of DoD security/compliance frameworks (e.g. CMMC) or ability to ramp fast.
• U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Hire, level, and develop engineers across software, networking, RF, and hardware‑adjacent debugging to build the bench NODA needs as headcount scales.
• Coach cross‑layer debugging as a team capability, teaching engineers when to go deep in one domain, when to go wide across several, and when to delegate.
• Profile systems and root‑cause issues that are too ambiguous or cross‑cutting for others to own.
• Own System Health for your scope, including performance and stability KPIs, MTTR on cross‑system issues, degradation detection, and tooling/telemetry.
• Own crash‑to‑root‑cause analysis and verification evidence behind release go/no‑go calls.
• Treat security and CMMC constraints as first‑class design inputs, not a parallel track.
• Catch gaps other teams leave before they surface as integration failures or field incidents.
• Translate field, customer, and BD requirements into constraints your team can build against.
• Represent Systems Engineering at cross‑team design sessions and the Architecture Review Board, escalating system integrity and delivery risk.

Skills

Expert Debugging

System Health Ownership

Cross‑Domain Engineering Management

Performance Monitoring

DoD Security Compliance

Security Clearance Eligibility

Networking Fundamentals

Real-Time / Low-Latency Middleware

Education

U.S. Citizenship

Tools

Multimeter

Oscilloscope

Job description

• Hire, level, and develop engineers across software, networking, RF, and hardware‑adjacent debugging to build the bench NODA needs as headcount scales
• Coach cross‑layer debugging as a team capability, teaching engineers when to go deep in one domain, when to go wide across several, and when to delegate
• Personally profile systems and root‑cause the issues too ambiguous or too cross‑cutting for anyone else to cleanly own
• Own System Health for your scope, including performance and stability KPIs, MTTR on cross‑system issues, degradation detection, and the tooling and telemetry that makes it possible
• Own crash‑to‑root‑cause analysis and the verification evidence behind release go/no‑go calls
• Treat security and CMMC‑derived constraints as first‑class design inputs, not a parallel compliance track
• Catch the gaps other teams leave, deliberately or inadvertently, before they surface as integration failures or field incidents
• Translate field, customer, and BD requirements into constraints your team can build against
• Represent Systems Engineering at cross‑team design sessions and the Architecture Review Board, and escalated system integrity and delivery risk per the Systems Engineering charter

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering experience, with substantial hands‑on time debugging distributed, real‑time, or multi‑domain systems in production
• 2+ years managing engineers, ideally across more than one technical domain
• A real track record as an expert debugger, the person teams bring the hardest, most ambiguous cross‑system issues to, regardless of layer
• Able to think both ways: horizontal breadth across software, RF, networking, firmware, and hardware, and vertical depth to root‑cause a single hard failure all the way down when breadth alone won’t solve it
• Experience owning system health, performance monitoring, or release‑readiness processes
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals and real‑time or low‑latency middleware
• Comfortable with hardware bench diagnostics (multimeter, oscilloscope) and reading firmware‑level behavior well enough to know when to loop in a specialist
• Working understanding of DoD security and compliance frameworks (e.g. CMMC) as they apply to system design, or demonstrated ability to ramp fast
• U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain a security clearance

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive expertise in debugging complex, multi‑domain systems, with a strong focus on system health, performance monitoring, and compliance with security frameworks. Capable of leading and developing engineering teams while translating customer requirements into actionable engineering constraints.

Highest‑signal resume keywords

• Expert Debugging
• System Health Ownership
• Cross‑Domain Engineering Management
• Performance Monitoring
• DoD Security Compliance

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Debugging Distributed Systems
• Real‑Time Systems
• Multi‑Domain Systems
• Performance Monitoring
• Root‑Cause Analysis
• Hardware Bench Diagnostics
• Firmware‑Level Behavior Analysis
• Networking Fundamentals
• Low‑Latency Middleware
• CMMC Compliance

Soft Skills

• Coaching
• Cross‑Team Collaboration
• Problem Solving

Certifications & Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship
• Security Clearance Eligibility

Industry Keywords

• Systems Engineering
• Integration Failures
• Field Incidents
• Architecture Review Board
• Design Inputs

Tools & Technologies

• Multimeter
• Oscilloscope