Manager, Software Engineering - Factory Platform

5+ years of software engineering experience across multiple production systems

Expert in React and modern frontend tooling

Fluent in at least one backend language (Go, Python) and willing to range across the stack

Comfortable driving architectural decisions and building buy-in across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders

2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead-manager role, with direct reports

Experience designing and scaling service architectures for high-performance frontend operations

$157,000

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$215,500 USD

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As a Lead Software Engineer on the Factory Platform team, you'll combine hands-on technical leadership with direct people management.

You'll own the full software development lifecycle for your squad — from concept and trade study through implementation, deployment, and iteration — while also being accountable for the growth, performance, and hiring of the engineers on your team.

Manage a team of software engineers: conduct 1:1s, write and deliver performance reviews, support career development, and drive hiring

Set and uphold engineering standards for your team: code quality, testing, deployment practices, incident response, and on-call culture

Lead architectural design and trade studies for new features and systems across planning, scheduling, purchasing, manufacturing operations, and test data tooling

Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (manufacturing, operations, propulsion, test & launch) to translate domain requirements into software

The Terrestrial Software team is building the foundation for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform. Their mission is to automate and streamline workflows across the entire lifecycle of Terran R, from raw material intake to launch operations and eventually manufacturing on Mars. Today, that means partnering directly with teams across design, materials, manufacturing, and test and launch to design, implement, and deploy end user enterprise-wide applications, industrial automation, data analytics infrastructure, and next-generation AI to solve real problems and accelerate progress. Long term, the team is laying the groundwork for a modular, scalable software platform that can power highly autonomous operations on Earth and beyond. This is a team for builders and thinkers who thrive on cross-functional impact and want to shape the digital backbone of our future in space.