# Software Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

Join Axon and be a Force for Good. At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. 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. Life 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. Your Impact Dedrone 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. Your 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

- **Id**: 4075579
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/axon-enterprise-software-engineering-manager-forward-deployed-engineering>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sterling, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T14:16:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T15:14:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7246
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Law Enforcement, Document AI, Video Surveillance

## Company

- **Id**: 4101
- **Name**: Axon Enterprise
- **Domain**: axon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/axon>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 134
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.858
- **Repost share**: 0.007
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 48
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 240000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 240000

## Technologies

- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **WhatsApp** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T15:14:02Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 153 · green card filings: 20; Filings 12m: 153

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 47
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T17:36:14Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 240000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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