Manager, Engineering

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Meet the Team 

We’re looking for engineering management professionals to lead a team focused on monitoring and assisting our fleet of autonomous driving vehicles while on missions. As an engineering manager, you will be responsible for building a thriving team dedicated to creating cloud-based tools and pipelines for remote assistance, mission support, and metrics-based reporting. You will work closely with stakeholders to create and manage the product backlog and ensure successful delivery of the team objectives.  As a team leader, you will be responsible for managing and communicating team budgets, hiring goals, and working with individuals to set goals and track performance. 

What you'll be doing:

• Responsible for team management, including resource allocation, workload prioritization, backlog maintenance, cross-functional team collaboration, talent selection, team onboarding, career development, and performance management
• Accountable for application telemetry to drive on-call support and reporting of performance and user engagement
• Facilitate backlog adjustments to address product changes and to ensure the system operates in accordance with specifications
• Collaborate with the Technical Product Manager to identify and prioritize feature improvements, based on product milestones and end-user feedback
• Guide the team through feature decomposition and the work estimation process. 
• Oversee team’s progress toward completion, communicating regularly to all levels within the team, department, and organization
• Enforce software development best practices for the team, improving quality, efficiency, and accuracy of the team’s work

What you'll need to succeed:  

• BS/MS Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in Industry or Graduate School 
• Experience leading engineering teams in the delivery of large-scale applications that support a distributed, cross-functional development organization
• Strong facilitation, technical team coaching, systems thinking, and servant leadership skills
• Proficiency in cloud services and architectures (AWS, Azure) 
• Proficiency in current web technologies (HTML5/CSS/JavaScript/JSON) 
• Proficiency using version control and CI/CD systems (Git)  
• Test automation principles and design
• Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)  

Bonus Points!

• Experience working with high-level languages (C++, Python)  
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure at scale (AWS, Terraform
• Proficiency in Linux platforms (Ubuntu, Centos)  
• Experience in robotic systems 
• Experience