Director of Product, Engineering Systems
Product Manager owning the Engineering OS module (product data/lifecycle management), partnering with manufacturing and defense customers to define requirements and drive the roadmap. Tech stack includes Rust, Python, TypeScript, React, AWS, and PostgreSQL.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- HQ (San Francisco, CA)
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proven experience as a mechanical or electrical engineer designing and shipping complex hardware systems used in the field
- Deep familiarity with legacy hardware engineering tools (CAD, PDM, PLM, ERP, MES)
- Systems thinker who identifies root problems and converts them into clear product requirements
- Willingness to be customer-facing across sales, deployment, and post-go-live
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee per ITAR regulations
Full description
Why Heliux:
Heliux is building the AI-native operating system for the manufacturing enterprise. We’re fundamentally reshaping how engineering and manufacturing companies run by eliminating cross-functional fragmentation and enabling agentic execution on a single, shared operational reality. Companies developing and scaling production of next-generation defense systems, nuclear reactors, robotics, and more all trust Heliux to drive their operations.
We’re on a mission to deliver operating performance for manufacturers. Our team is built on a foundation of grit combined with deep commitment to our customers and the mission. If you want to do important work for critical industries on an ambitious, high-energy team, we’d love for you to join us.
About the Role:
The Product Manager will report directly to the CEO, and is responsible for the outcome of Engineering OS, Heliux’s product data and lifecycle management module:
- Partner closely with our customers’ engineering and operations organizations to gain a continuous understanding of their work–the good, the bad, the ugly.
- Anticipate the capabilities that our customers need and translate them into clearly-defined product requirements that drive our design and engineering work.
- Own end-to-end roadmap for Engineering OS, including priorities, development schedule, and release sequencing.
- Author release communications for both existing customers and prospects, across every channel.
- Work with Product Managers across Heliux to ensure the platform is greater than the sum of its modules.
About You:
- Proven experience as a mechanical or electrical engineer designing and shipping complex hardware systems that are used in the field (i.e., not science projects).
- Deep familiarity with (and disdain for) the legacy tools used by hardware engineers, such as CAD, PDM, PLM, ERP, MES, etc.
- Proven systems thinker who finds the root problem rather than the requested feature and converts it into clear product requirements.
- Willingness to be customer-facing–from the sales process, through deployment, and post-go-live.
Technical Environment:
- Backend: Rust, Python, high-performance backend services, APIs, data-intensive systems.
- Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js, real-time interfaces, WebSockets, Server-Sent Events (SSE).
- Systems/Integrations: C#, Electron
- Distributed Systems & Orchestration: durable workflow execution, Temporal, event-driven architectures, distributed systems