Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager for Axon's Connected Devices team in Ho Chi Minh City, leading ~6-8 engineers building mission-critical embedded/firmware software. Combines people leadership, architectural oversight, and delivery ownership across firmware, hardware, cloud, and mobile, with hands-on roots in C/C++, Go, Python, and AI-assisted engineering tools.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams with strong people-management skills (hiring, coaching, career development, performance management, retention)
- 7+ years in Firmware/Embedded Engineering or related systems software, with products shipped to customers
- Strong technical judgment in embedded or systems software (architecture, implementation, quality, reliability, trade-offs)
- 5+ years of professional software development in C/C++, Go, Python, and/or another systems programming language
- Demonstrated experience managing complex delivery: planning, prioritization, staffing, dependencies, risk management
- Strong product and business judgment with ability to make trade-offs across value, scope, schedule, quality, cost, maintainability
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and driving their adoption across a team
Nice to have
- Experience leading teams where engineers own software quality end to end (automated testing, design-for-testability, CI quality gates, release readiness, production reliability)
Full description
Join Axon and be a Force for Good.
At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.
Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.
Your Impact
As an Engineering Manager on the Connected Devices team, you will combine strong technical judgment, people leadership, and end-to-end ownership. You will lead a team responsible for mission-critical embedded software, maintain a clear architectural vision for your domain, develop engineers and technical leaders, drive predictable execution and operational excellence, and partner closely with Product and cross-functional teams to deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.
You will be accountable for the end-to-end success of your team’s area, including delivery, software quality, reliability, security, compliance, operational health, adoption, and long-term maintainability. You will make clear trade-offs across customer value, scope, schedule, technical debt, engineering cost, and long-term product health.
What You’ll DoWork Location: This role is based out of our Ho Chi Minh City office and follows a hybrid schedule: onsite Tuesday through Friday and remote on Mondays, unless an approved accommodation applies. We place a high value on in-person collaboration and building a strong in-office culture.
Reports To: Senior Engineering Manager / Engineering Director
Direct Reports: Roughly 6 to start, with expectations to scale to 8+ after 6 months
- Own the end-to-end success of the team’s product area, including delivery, quality, reliability, security, compliance, operational health, adoption, cost, and customer outcomes.
- Partner with Product Management to connect engineering priorities to customer and business outcomes and make clear trade-offs across scope, schedule, quality, technical debt, cost, and long-term maintainability.
- Maintain a clear architectural vision for the team’s domain and ensure high-quality technical decisions through architecture, design, code, test, and operational reviews.
- Own execution planning, capacity, staffing, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments; proactively surface and manage trade-offs when plans change.
- Manage escalations within the team’s domain and drive cross-team dependencies to resolution across Firmware, Hardware, Cloud, Mobile, QE, Security, Manufacturing, and Product.