Device Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead and guide a team of device engineers and reverse engineers, fostering technical advancement and career growth through regular one-on-one meetings and ongoing career coaching.

• Drive recruitment and team expansion to align with roadmap requirements.

• Own the technical strategy regarding device coverage, prioritizing devices and protocols for reverse engineering investments.

• Establish standards for reverse engineering outputs, which include protocol and device documentation, fingerprints, profiles, and automated testing.

• Advocate for the automation of repetitive tasks, such as device model and profile creation, firmware and vulnerability data collection, and capture-based test replay.

• Promote the use of AI-assisted development tools and workflows.

• Collaborate with product management and technical leads to define the scope, sequence device support, and address any blockers.

• Work alongside security research, threat research, and customer-facing teams to translate field requirements into engineering deliverables.

• Manage production support for deployed systems, including customer-operated and on-premises environments, and engage in incident response.

• Cultivate communities of device engineering and reverse engineering skills across the organization.

• Maintain essential technical expertise by reviewing code, assessing designs, and directly debugging production issues.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in engineering management.

• Experience managing Agile processes and collaborating within cross-functional Product Teams.

• Strong technical foundation in software that interacts with network-connected devices across embedded, IoT, and OT/ICS environments.

• Previous engineering experience with a mix of Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Python, relational databases, Docker, and Unix/Linux systems-level debugging.

• Direct experience leading or collaborating closely with reverse engineers on protocol or firmware analysis.

• Solid understanding of network transport and application layer protocols (TCP/IP, TLS, HTTP, common authentication schemes, and widely used embedded and industrial protocols).

• Experience deploying software on customer-managed or on-premises infrastructure.

• Proficient daily use of AI-assisted development tools, with the ability to discern when they may not be reliable.

• Comfortable with reading code and directly debugging production issues.

• Experience in cybersecurity, OT/ICS, or xIoT device security is highly preferred.

• All new hires are required to pass a background check as a condition of employment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive Equity Package

• Comprehensive Benefits Plan