Senior Engineering Manager, Systems

Noda

Systems Engineering Manager leading teams in debugging multi-domain systems at NODA AI. Overseeing system integrity and team development in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 escalate system integrity and delivery risk per the Systems Engineering charter

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hybrid work environment
Competitive pay, including equity
Flexible time off
Generous PTO policy
Federal holidays
Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
Free OneMedical membership
401(k)

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Hard Skills & Tools

Debugging Distributed SystemsReal-Time SystemsMulti-Domain SystemsPerformance MonitoringRoot-Cause AnalysisHardware Bench DiagnosticsFirmware-Level Behavior AnalysisNetworking FundamentalsLow-Latency MiddlewareCMMC Compliance

Soft Skills

CoachingCross-Team CollaborationProblem Solving

Certifications

U.S. CitizenshipSecurity Clearance Eligibility