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Senior Engineering Manager – Build & Release
| Company | Shield AI |
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| Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $193740.8 – $290611.2 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 10+ years in software engineering, ideally with C++ development.
- 5+ years in build and release engineering, ideally within C++-based environments.
- 2+ years in personnel management or technical leadership of teams.
- Proficiency with CMake and Linux development.
- Experience with some C++ package management tool (like Conan).
- Experience working with CI/CD tools, automated pipelines, and virtualized environments.
Responsibilities
- Build and Lead a World Class Team
- Making hiring plans and executing recruiting processes.
- Driving team direction with task definition and allocation.
- Grow the team in engineering skill and maturity.
- Architect, optimize, and maintain C++ build systems using tools like CMake and Makefiles, focusing on reproducibility and scalability across development and production environments.
- Manage and integrate dependencies effectively with Conan, ensuring a consistent and secure package management strategy that aligns with SDK requirements.
- Work with package management tools like Debian to handle cross-platform dependencies, making the SDK accessible to a wide range of developers and systems.
- Identify and address build performance bottlenecks through profiling tools and techniques, implementing optimizations like caching and precompiled headers to reduce build times and improve efficiency.
- Apply best practices in compiler and linker configurations for GCC and Clang, ensuring compatibility across various platforms and improving build reliability.
- Leverage expertise in Linux-based development to troubleshoot and enhance SDK builds, deploying across distributions like Ubuntu and RHEL.
- Develop scripts in Bash or ZSH for automation and build process improvements.
- Collaborate closely with autonomy engineers to support codebase management, continuously improving workflows to reduce development friction.
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep Conan expertise.
- Adaptable problem solver – able to learn new skills quickly and can hop into many different projects quickly.
- Working in large mono-repo or poly-repo projects with 100+ developers.
