Engineering Manager
Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Vietnam-Ho Chi Minh City · 3+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 14, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Vietnam-Ho Chi Minh City
About the role
- 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, and drive predictable execution and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Establish and monitor engineering and operational metrics and drive measurable improvements in delivery predictability, quality, reliability, and engineering effectiveness.
- Drive strong operational practices, including release readiness, incident response, root-cause analysis, retrospectives, and proactive risk reduction.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools as part of your standard workflow and drive effective AI adoption across the team while maintaining a high quality bar.
- Build and develop a high-performing team through hiring, onboarding, clear expectations, feedback, career development, performance management, and retention of top performers.
- Create a culture of candor, accountability, continuous learning, and strong team engagement.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams, with strong people-management skills across hiring, coaching, career development, performance management, and retention.
- 7+ years of experience in Firmware / Embedded Engineering or related systems software, with products shipped to customers.
- Strong technical judgment in embedded or systems software, with the ability to evaluate architecture, implementation, quality, reliability, and engineering trade-offs.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience in C/C++, Go, Python, and/or another systems programming language.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex delivery, including planning, prioritization, staffing, dependencies, risk management, and recovery when commitments are at risk.
- Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to make trade-offs across customer value, scope, schedule, technical quality, cost, and long-term maintainability.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows, with the ability to evaluate their effectiveness and drive adoption across an engineering team.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience leading teams where engineers own software quality end to end, including automated testing, design-for-testability, CI quality gates, defect prevention, release readiness, and production reliability.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Robust Paid Time Off policy
- Bonuses
- Lunch allowance
- Cell phone stipend
- Free LinkedIn Learning account or Udemy account
- Access to 24/7 online emotional and mental support
- Gym membership
- Free parking
- Stocked fridges and pantries - free coffee, cold beverages, snacks
Workplace
- Based out of the Ho Chi Minh City office
- Hybrid schedule: onsite Tuesday through Friday and remote on Mondays, unless an approved accommodation applies
Skills
- C
- C++
- Go
- Python
