Senior Engineering Manager (Civil Aviation)

Air Space Intelligence

$120K — $160K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7+ years of experience leading large-scale engineering efforts across multiple teams
  • Strong background in managing complex, multi-year project roadmaps
  • Expertise in distributed systems design with a focus on reliability and scalability
  • Proven track record of managing high-availability systems with strict uptime goals
  • At least 2-3 years of prior engineering management experience, alongside software engineering experience
  • Ability to effectively prioritize and manage tradeoffs under delivery constraints
  • Strong judgment and accountability in driving performance across engineering teams

Responsibilities

  • Lead the execution of mission-critical systems for aviation operations
  • Oversee multiple engineering teams and ensure alignment on technical direction
  • Drive complex projects through careful management of interdependent systems
  • Establish high-autonomy management practices that empower teams
  • Create metrics and feedback systems to enhance team effectiveness
  • Foster collaboration with product and program management to coordinate deliverables
  • Integrate complex datasets to support real-time decision-making and simulations

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on large-scale, impactful engineering projects
  • Development and mentoring of high-performing engineering teams
  • High degree of autonomy in team management and execution
  • Collaboration across various disciplines including product and program management
  • Access to innovative technologies and complex datasets
  • Work in a mission-critical environment with a focus on operational excellence
Full Job Description
What You Will Do:

As a Senior Engineering Manager for the Civil Aviation team, you will lead the execution of large-scale, mission-critical systems that power aviation operations. You will oversee multiple engineering teams across a complex, multi-year roadmap, ensuring systems meet strict reliability, performance, and compliance requirements. You will drive execution across parallel workstreams, aligning teams around clear technical direction and delivery against a highly complex set of system requirements, while operating deeply at the system design level-guiding architecture, enforcing engineering standards, and ensuring consistency across distributed systems.

You will also lead and develop teams through a high-autonomy management approach: setting clear expectations and direction, supporting individual growth, and establishing the right metrics and feedback loops to ensure teams are operating effectively-ultimately creating clarity and systems that allow teams to execute independently without heavy day-to-day oversight.

You'll partner closely with product, program management, and domain experts to coordinate delivery across teams, building systems that integrate complex datasets, support simulations, and enable real-time decision-making.

What We Value:
  • Strong experience leading large-scale engineering efforts across multiple teams (e.g., 5-7+ teams)
  • Proven ability to manage complex, multi-year roadmaps with many interdependent systems and requirements
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and system design, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance
  • Experience driving high-availability systems (e.g., 99.99% uptime) and enforcing reliability standards across teams
  • At least 2-3+ years of engineering management experience, with prior experience as a software engineer
  • Ability to set structure, align teams, and drive execution across large programs
  • Experience coordinating work across multiple parallel workstreams with clear ownership and accountability
  • Strong judgment in prioritization, tradeoffs, and delivery under constraints
  • High bar for engineering quality, operational excellence, and accountability
  • Ability to build trust and lead effectively in a mission-critical environment
  • Exposure to geospatial, mapping, navigation, or aviation-related systems is a plus
  • Experience working in cloud environments and regulated systems (e.g., FedRAMP or similar) is a plus


How We Hire:

We look at the interview process not as a screening or test, but rather as an opportunity to simulate what it would look like working together. We build the interview process around you.

ASI works with export-controlled technology and restricted U.S. Government data, including on contracts mandating U.S. immigration status and location restrictions for performing personnel. Employment offers are contingent on ability to timely obtain all required authorizations for contemplated job duties.

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