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Senior Engineering Manager, Solutions Engineering

NODA AI · Austin · Remote

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About NODA AI

Backed by Bessemer.

About the role

You will own the people, delivery quality, and hiring bar for Solutions Engineering. You’ll manage a rapidly growing yet high-caliber team of Solution Engineers, Senior Solution Engineers, and Solution Architects across Austin and DC. This is a hands-on EM role at a startup. Expect to read code, sit in customer technical reviews, and travel when delivery risk concentrates at an event.

What they're looking for

  • • 6+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years directly managing engineers
  • • Track record leading customer-facing or forward-deployed engineering teams in defense, autonomy, or comparable high-stakes B2B environments
  • • Strong technical credibility, can read Python, C++, or Rust and evaluate integration architecture decisions
  • • Excellent written communication
  • • Due to the nature of the position, U.S. citizenship is required due to ITAR regulations, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance
  • • Background at leading defense tech companies or in the federal/defense arm of major tech companies
More about this role

Travel: ~25–40% during major engagement events; ~15% in steady state

Clearance Requirement: U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain a security clearance required

NODA is a veteran-owned, venture-backed defense technology company building the orchestration layer for autonomous unmanned systems. Our platform coordinates fleets of heterogeneous vehicles across air, sea, and land for defense and intelligence customers. We expect every hire to be mission-driven with strong agency.

NODA’s Solutions Engineering function delivers our platform into customer environments and is responsible for getting the software onto customer hardware and into operational use. As customer programs scale, we are hiring a dedicated engineering manager to lead this critical team. You will partner closely with Product Management, Mission Leads, Field Operations, and engineering counterparts.

You will own the people, delivery quality, and hiring bar for Solutions Engineering. You’ll manage a rapidly growing yet high-caliber team of Solution Engineers, Senior Solution Engineers, and Solution Architects across Austin and DC.

This is a hands-on EM role at a startup. Expect to read code, sit in customer technical...

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