Engineering Manager - Data Processing

The role

About Emesent

Team scope

• The group owns SLAM processing and workflows for Hovermap and GX1, including merging, colourisation, georeferencing, and calibration.
• The team supports real-time visualization, autonomous flight, Aura desktop processing, Aura Cloud processing, and scanner calibration.
• The role covers applied research through production software and production enablement.

Core responsibilities

• Represent user needs, partner with Product, and connect technical roadmaps to customer and business outcomes.
• Lead architecture, delivery planning, quality, reliability, support, incident response, and technical sustainability.
• Allocate people across feature work, support, and technical debt while maintaining predictable commitments.
• Develop people through feedback, coaching, performance management, hiring, and direct handling of difficult conversations.
• Help establish shared management practices, playbooks, and rituals across the Engineering Management group.

What you bring

• Experience managing senior specialist engineers in robotics, geospatial, computer vision, perception, or another algorithm-heavy domain.
• Experience taking algorithmic or systems-heavy work from research or prototype to reliable production software.
• Strong software architecture experience with clean interfaces, target architectures, and reliability practices.
• Delivery leadership that builds stakeholder trust through dependable commitments and early risk communication.
• People-development experience covering feedback, coaching, hiring, and performance management.
• Cloud architecture experience is ideal as processing expands to SaaS workflows.

What good looks like after twelve months

• The group is closer to its target architecture, with cleaner interfaces and a stronger reliability suite.
• At least one core SLAM improvement has shipped.
• The engineering bench is stronger and delivery is predictable enough for commercial and manufacturing planning.
• At least one introduced practice has become standard across the engineering management group.

Perks

• A nine-day fortnight with every second Friday off.
• Employee Share Option Plan, learning and development opportunities, flexible working arrangements, and casual dress.
• Employee Assistance Program and online telehealth support.
• A full day of leave each year for the employee's work anniversary.