Engineering Manager - Data Processing
Emesent
Engineering Manager - Data Processing
Emesent, a Brisbane-based leader in autonomous LiDAR mapping and drone autonomy, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead its Data Processing group. The role involves end-to-end leadership of delivery, quality, technical direction, and people, with a focus on SLAM technology and modernizing the codebase. The ideal candidate has experience managing senior engineers in algorithm-heavy domains and a track record of delivering production software.
Engineering Manager - Data Processing
Emesent, a Brisbane-based leader in autonomous LiDAR mapping and drone autonomy, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead its Data Processing group. The role involves end-to-end leadership of delivery, quality, technical direction, and people, with a focus on SLAM technology and modernizing the codebase. The ideal candidate has experience managing senior engineers in algorithm-heavy domains and a track record of delivering production software.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Represent the voice of the user: partner with Product to discover challenges and estimate effort, timelines, and trade-offs.
- Own the business impact of your group's work, connecting roadmap to revenue and customer commitments.
- Lead the group toward its target architecture, working with senior and staff engineers.
- Drive technical sustainability: reduce bus factor, manage cognitive load, keep systems maintainable.
- Make commitments the wider business can plan around.
- Run group planning with your PM: sprint planning, review, retro, clear goals, WIP control.
- Own delivery hygiene: track progress, unblock early, escalate risks with options.
- Allocate people across sub-domains; balance feature work, support, and tech debt.
- Own quality within engineering: ship work that QA verifies rather than debugs.
- Ensure automated testing and release gates are meaningful and improving.
- Build a habit of continuous improvement: automation, tooling, simplification, dependency upgrades.
- Ensure support is covered and predictable: rosters, escalation paths, clear ownership.
- Own third-tier ticket triage: root causes, fixes, learnings fed back.
- Lead incident management for the group when needed.
- Create a safe, supportive, high-ownership team environment.
- Develop your people deliberately: feedback, coaching, performance reviews, hiring.
- Act on under-contribution, poor fit, and conflict early and directly.
- Bring your experience to the EM group and help turn good practice into shared practice.
- Lead by example and stay open to learning from peers.