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We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.\nLife at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.\nYour Impact\nDedrone protects airspace from drone threats. Each deployment combines our software, our own and partner sensors, and a networking stack that connects the site to DedroneC2 in the cloud. As Engineering Manager for Forward Deployed Engineering, you lead the team that owns the technical outcome at our most critical customer sites.\nYour team takes each problem from live triage to a fix in the product. You have the authority to raise defects and to join design reviews with our product teams, based on what your team sees first-hand in the field. One question guides the work: how do we leave the product better than we found it, so nobody has to work this issue again?\nWhat You’ll Do \nLocation: Onsite at our Sterling, Virginia office 4 days a week, and on the road 50% of time\nReports to: Senior Engineering Manager\nDirect Reports: 3\nHire, coach, and develop software engineers and systems specialists across the US and Europe.\nLead a team that resolves live site problems with customers and installers as they come in, and plan its workload and its place on the engineering on-call rota.\nRun strong operational practices: incident response, root-cause analysis, reviews after incidents, and risk reduction.\nDrive field escalations to resolution with product engineering teams, and make sure each root cause is fixed in the product.\nOwn and improve the runbooks, checklists, and acceptance tests that make deployments repeatable.\nWork with sales, services, and support teams on customer deployments.\nTravel to customer sites and events when the work needs it.\nUse AI-assisted engineering tools in your daily work, and help the team adopt them well.\nMeasure the technical results of the team and report them to senior leaders.\nWhat You Bring\n5+ years of software development experience, or an equivalent engineering background\n2+ years in an engineering leadership role, hiring, managing, and developing engineers\nTechnical judgment to review designs and code, and to work hands-on during a live incident\nProduction operations experience, such as incident response, root-cause analysis, runbooks, and monitoring\nLinux and networking depth to lead live triage and to judge root-cause analysis\nHands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows\nClear communication with customers, installers, and senior leaders during live incidents, and experience of work across teams without direct authority\nBenefits that Benefit You\nCompetitive salary and 401k with employer match\nDiscretionary paid time off\nPaid parental leave for all\nMedical, Dental, Vision plans\nFitness Programs\nEmotional & Mental Wellness support\nLearning & Development programs\nEmployee Resource Groups (ERGs)\nAnd yes, we have snacks in our offices\nBenefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.\nAxon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit https://www.axon.com/careers.\nBase Pay Range\n$150,000—$240,000 USD\nDon’t meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.\nStudies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.\nImportant Notes\nThe above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.\nSome roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.\nWe collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access, deletion, or exercise other CCPA rights at  or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more information, please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.\nAxon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. 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