Senior Manager, Digital Engineering

True Anomaly, Inc.; Laguna Beach (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class healthcare

Generous time off

Daily catered lunch

401(k) retirement plan

Fitness reimbursement

Dog Fridays

Equity participation

Job summary

True Anomaly in Laguna Beach, CA, seeks a Senior Manager of Digital Engineering to own the digital thread across PLM, MBSE, ERP, and in-house software. You will build the platform from the ground up, hire and grow the engineering team, and set architecture patterns while maintaining hands-on delivery early on.

This founder-level leadership role demands shipping mindset, a passion for mentoring engineers, and the ability to scale a high-performing function in a fast-paced, ITAR-enabled

Qualifications

• Strong architectural leadership and system design experience.
• Proven track record in building and scaling software teams.
• Experience delivering platform-scale engineering programs.

Responsibilities

• Hire, coach, and grow a team of software engineers from early-career to staff level.
• Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and support career development for direct reports.
• Foster a collaborative, high-ownership culture under fast-paced, high-stakes conditions.
• Manage on-call and support rotations to keep software reliable.

Skills

Software architecture

Leadership

Team management

People development

Job description

Space is a warfighting domain. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it.

OUR MISSION

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors - enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.

OUR VALUES

• Be the offset.We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.
• What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.
• Its the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Best-in-class healthcare: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, with HSA/HRA options
• Generous time off: Flexible Time Off (FTO) for exempt employees, accrued PTO of up to 25 days for non-exempt employees, plus 12 paid holidays; Parental Leave; Sick Leave
• Fuel for your day: Daily catered lunch and unlimited snacks for in-office employees
• And more: 401(k) retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, and Dog Fridays
• Equity participation: Equity is included as part of our total compensation package, giving you an opportunity to share in the company’s success.

Do not apply to fixed term and temporary roles

YOUR MISSION

True Anomaly designs, sources, and manufactures spacecraft across a landscape of engineering and business systems - PLM, requirements/ALM, MBSE, and ERP - that today do not share a connected flow of product data. As Senior Manager of Digital Engineering, you will own the digital thread that changes this: the authoritative, traceable flow of product data across the entire lifecycle, and the internal platform and in-house software that make it real. Delivering this digital thread is a contractual requirement, so the mandate is concrete and the timeline is externally driven. This is a founding, hands-on leadership role - early on you will build the platform yourself and set its architecture and engineering patterns in code, while you hire and grow the software engineering team behind it, from early-career engineers to staff level, expanding as the mandate grows. As the team matures your hands-on share deliberately gives way to multiplying through others, but you stay close enough to the architecture to lead your engineers on the merits. The platform you build will give engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing one authoritative source of product data instead of manual exports and disconnected tools, with the auditability and traceability an ITAR/CUI environment demands. Integrations connect today's tools, which remain owned and administered by the teams that run them; over time, your team will build in-house systems of record wherever owning the software serves the company better than buying it.

This is a role for a builder who leads - an engineer who never stopped shipping and is energized by developing people and standing up a high-performing function from the ground up. It is not a fit for a pure people-manager who is years out of the code, nor for a senior IC who does not genuinely want to build and grow a team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Team Leadership & Development

• Hire, coach, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, from early-career to staff level.

• Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and support career development and growth planning for direct reports.

• Foster a collaborative, high-ownership culture that thrives under fast-paced, high-stakes conditions.

• Manage on-call and support rotations so the team can keep its software reliable in