Senior Engineering Manager

Milrem Robotics is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Milrem Interconnect and Milrem Operating System engineering teams.

In this role, you will combine strategic thinking with strong engineering leadership, ensuring that our teams deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions that meet both business objectives and customer needs.

You will play a key role in shaping our engineering capabilities, driving delivery excellence, and building strong teams. Beyond overseeing day-to-day engineering activities, you will guide important technical and product decisions, balancing flexibility, interoperability, and long-term customer value.

Your main responsibilities:

• Own and drive the Milrem Interconnect and Milrem Operating System engineering roadmaps, ensuring alignment with company strategy, product priorities, and customer requirements.

• Set clear strategic and operational goals for the teams, establish priorities, and ensure accountability for results.

• Drive predictable, timely, and high-quality delivery of critical functionalities and engineering solutions, ensuring scalability and reliability.

• Lead complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives, ensuring effective coordination and delivery across teams and technical domains.

• Collaborate closely with product management, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders to align engineering priorities with product strategy, customer needs, and business objectives.

• Lead and develop engineering teams through senior technical specialists, fostering ownership, accountability, and high performance.

• Build and lead high-performing engineering teams through recruitment, coaching, performance management, and continuous professional development.

• Ensure consistent application of agreed engineering processes, standards, and technologies across teams.

• Drive continuous improvement, promote engineering best practices, and foster operational excellence to enhance efficiency, quality, and delivery performance.

• Communicate engineering strategy, priorities, progress, and risks clearly and effectively to teams, stakeholders, and senior leadership.

What we expect from you:

• Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams, with a strong track record of people management, technical leadership, and delivering results.

• Strong technical background in software or systems engineering, preferably with experience in Linux-based systems, embedded software, middleware, DevOps, or systems architecture.

• Up-to-date technical understanding and the ability to confidently discuss engineering challenges, challenge technical decisions, and guide senior specialists without being involved in day-to-day implementation.

• Proven ability to lead engineering teams in a dynamic environment, taking ownership, making independent decisions, and knowing when to escalate.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to mediate between teams, manage competing priorities, and build strong working relationships.

• Experience translating business and product requirements into clear engineering priorities and achievable roadmaps, ensuring predictable and high-quality delivery.

• Strategic and business-oriented mindset, with the ability to balance technical decisions, customer needs, and long-term business objectives.

• Practical understanding of cybersecurity principles and how they apply to software and systems development.

• A proactive, structured, and solution-oriented approach, with a focus on accountability, continuous improvement, and team development.

• Excellent English communication skills.

What makes this opportunity exciting?

• Lead and shape engineering teams developing advanced technologies for the defence robotics industry.

• Take on a strategic leadership role with real influence over engineering direction, technical capabilities, and product development.

• Work on complex, innovative solutions that contribute to the future of autonomous defence systems.

• Build and develop high-performing engineering teams while strengthening critical technical capabilities.

• Collaborate with experienced specialists and international stakeholders in a growing technology company.

• Grow professionally while making a meaningful impact in an ambitious, international environment.

Discover more about our culture, employee benefits, and lifeat Milrem:careers.milrem.com

To apply, please send your application by November 19th at the latest. We review applications continuously and may contact qualified candidates for interviews before the official deadline.

Please note: Due to the nature of our business, employment with Milrem Robotics is subject to successful completion of a pre-employment background check. The scope of the check may vary depending on the role and applicable local requirements.