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Axon

Builds weapons, cameras and software for police

Engineering Manager

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience leading engineering teams, including people management across hiring, coaching, career development, performance management, and retention.
  • At least 7 years of experience in firmware, embedded engineering, or related systems software, with products shipped to customers.
  • Strong technical judgment in embedded or systems software, including evaluating architecture, implementation, quality, reliability, and engineering trade-offs.
  • At least 5 years of professional software development experience in C/C++, Go, Python, and/or another systems programming language.
  • Demonstrated experience managing complex delivery, including planning, prioritization, staffing, dependencies, risk management, and recovery when commitments are at risk.
  • Strong product and business judgment, including trade-offs across customer value, scope, schedule, technical quality, cost, and long-term maintainability.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows, including evaluating their effectiveness and driving adoption across an engineering team.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end success of the team’s product area, including delivery, quality, reliability, security, compliance, operational health, adoption, cost, and customer outcomes.
  • Partner with Product Management to connect engineering priorities to customer and business outcomes and make trade-offs across scope, schedule, quality, technical debt, cost, and long-term maintainability.
  • Maintain a clear architectural vision for the team’s domain and ensure high-quality technical decisions through architecture, design, code, test, and operational reviews.
  • Own execution planning, capacity, staffing, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments; proactively surface and manage trade-offs when plans change.
  • Manage escalations within the team’s domain and drive cross-team dependencies to resolution across Firmware, Hardware, Cloud, Mobile, QE, Security, Manufacturing, and Product.
  • Establish and monitor engineering and operational metrics and drive measurable improvements in delivery predictability, quality, reliability, and engineering effectiveness.
  • Drive operational practices, including release readiness, incident response, root-cause analysis, retrospectives, and proactive risk reduction.
  • Use AI-assisted engineering tools as part of the standard workflow and drive effective AI adoption across the team while maintaining a high quality bar.
  • Build and develop a high-performing team through hiring, onboarding, clear expectations, feedback, career development, performance management, and retention of top performers.
  • Create a culture of candor, accountability, continuous learning, and strong team engagement.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience leading teams where engineers own software quality end to end, including automated testing, design-for-testability, CI quality gates, defect prevention, release readiness, and production reliability.

About the Company

Axon

Builds weapons, cameras and software for police

Axon builds public safety technology for police, emergency responders and security teams, combining connected devices with software that manages their work. Its TASER weapons and body cameras link field equipment to a cloud platform used throughout an investigation. Agencies use Axon Evidence to store recordings, control access and share case material with prosecutors, while its records and real-time operations tools organize reports and coordinate responses. Axon earns money from device sales and subscriptions that combine software, equipment upgrades and support over multiple years. Founded in 1993, Axon is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Scottsdale, AZ
Founded
1993

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