About the Role
The Product Engineering Manager is responsible for managing a portfolio of software projects, overseeing staff, support services, and all associated deliverables.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and support experienced engineering teams across global locations (US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand).
- Own product intent, portfolio priorities, and trade-off decisions for assigned product lines, ensuring accountability for engineering and product outcomes.
- Devise and apply communication strategies to align a global, cross-functional workforce with product and delivery goals.
- Engage stakeholders to reconcile strategic, commercial, and technical priorities, translating customer feedback into product direction.
- Assemble and monitor high-performance, multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Set objectives, monitor performance, promote communication, and ensure the well-being of direct reports.
- Support administrative tasks for timely processing of actions affecting direct reports.
- Define and guard product intent, establishing product scope and target audience, and addressing scope pressure.
- Collaborate with team leads to review high-level architecture, internal project goals, and technical barriers.
- Partner with stakeholders to refine project priorities and adapt deliveries based on evolving market and customer requirements.
- Analyze program requirements and develop effort estimates with program management partners.
- Maintain depth in respective disciplines and contribute to ongoing software projects in research, engineering, or quality assurance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in software engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- Demonstrated proficiency in mobile platform (Android or iOS) internals, native programming languages (Objective-C, Swift, Java, and/or Kotlin), and system security mechanisms.
- 8+ years of experience in software development, process automation, quality engineering, or network operations.
- Working knowledge of operating system and application vulnerability classes.
- Proven experience analyzing malware samples and understanding mitigations provided by software patches.
- Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker), git workflows, and continuous integration/delivery platforms (e.g., Bamboo, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab).
- Knowledge and practical experience with agile software development methodologies.
- 4+ years of experience leading a team.
- Australian/5 EYES citizenship.
- Ability to successfully apply for and hold an Australian Defence Security Clearance and/or be assessed to work with ITAR information.
Skills
- CNO development/offensive cyber security (substantial experience preferred)
- Low-level programming languages and instruction sets
- Developer debugging tools (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS)
- Reverse engineering tools (IDA Pro, Ghidra, Hopper)
- Dynamic analysis tools (Frida, ADB)
- Mobile platform internals (Android, iOS)
- Native programming languages (Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin)
- System security mechanisms
- Operating system vulnerability classes
- Application vulnerability classes
- Malware analysis
- Containerization technologies (Docker)
- Git workflows
- Continuous integration/delivery platforms (Bamboo, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab)
- Agile software development methodologies
Location
- Sydney
- Canberra
Work Type
- Global team collaboration
- Periodic work outside normal hours (evenings, holidays, weekends)
- Up to 10% travel required
- Office environment
- Flexible working hours and patterns
Experience Level
- 8+ years in software development, process automation, quality engineering, or network operations
- 4+ years leading a team
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in software engineering, computer science, or a related field
Benefits
- Additional week of leave per annum
- Option to buy or sell up to 2 weeks additional annual leave
- Salary continuance insurance (75% of base salary and bonus for up to 2 years)
- Flexible working hours and patterns
- Discounted private health insurance
- Life & Total Permanent Disability Cover
- Novated Car Leasing
- Company supported professional development programs
- Company paid parking
- Retail Reward programs
About the Company
- Trenchant works with top researchers and engineers from security research and intelligence communities.
- Interdisciplinary teams create thoughtful capability designs and incremental feature releases for world-class computer security products.
- The business unit offers an exceptional value-proposition for individuals seeking impact.
- Trenchant's expertise stems from L3Harris' acquisition of Azimuth Security and Linchpin Labs.
- United under Trenchant, it is a key component of L3Harris’ Intelligence and Cyber Sector, now the core of the Cyber division.
- Trenchant is a trusted partner providing security products, consultancy, training, and integration services to allied security, defense, and law enforcement agencies.
