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About the Role

Oxford Dynamics is seeking an Engineering Manager to take direct ownership of a team of exceptional engineers, making them measurably more effective. This role involves running your team with minimal oversight, upholding a high standard, and ensuring the team produces impactful work at the pace required by the mission.

Responsibilities

• Own the return on your team, diagnosing and removing constraints to value delivery.
• Make delivery visible by building mechanisms and metrics for inspectable productivity.
• Coach and grow engineers through 1:1s, feedback, career development, and addressing underperformance.
• Set and uphold technical standards, code quality, testing, review, and architectural discipline.
• Stay technically credible to engage in design and code discussions and make sound quality calls.
• Handle day-to-day operations, clearing blockers and resolving friction for the team.
• Partner with delivery and product teams to ensure engineers are well-directed and focused.
• Build the team by recruiting, onboarding, and shaping a high-performing engineering culture.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and growing software engineering teams with ownership of engineers' productivity, performance, and development.
• A genuine engineering background credible enough for technical discussions and decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose and act on team delivery issues.
• Track record of developing engineers through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and performance management.
• Experience setting and holding engineering standards across products.
• Comfort operating autonomously with minimal oversight and making judgement calls.
• Clear, structured communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Calm, judgement-led decision making and comfort operating in ambiguity with fast-moving priorities.
• Eligibility for UK security clearance (BPSS and SC). SC requires 5 years of continuous UK residency.
• An active SC or DV clearance is a strong advantage.

Skills

• AI
• Robotics
• Data-intensive systems
• Mission-critical systems
• Defence
• Security
• High-assurance environments

Location

• London
• Oxford

Work Type

• Permanent
• Flexible working pattern
• Hybrid working pattern

Experience Level

• Leadership experience
• Engineering management experience

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience

Benefits

• Career progression
• Meaningful ownership
• Opportunity to shape the future of a fast-growing business
• Company pension (UK Government NEST scheme) with company contributions at 4%
• Private healthcare
• 29 days holiday in addition to public holidays (full-time equivalent)

About the Company

• Founded in 2019, Oxford Dynamics is a fast-growing UK frontier technology company developing digital and physical AI systems for dynamic, mission-critical environments.
• We build frontier technology for defence, national security, and the convergence of AI and robotics.
• Our core platform is AVIS™ (A Very Intelligent System), an orchestration platform that fuses multi-modal data for operators.
• AVIS™ powers digital decision products like ORION and physical platforms like STRIDER and BARBARIAN.
• We partner with defence and security organisations internationally.

Equal Opportunity

• Oxford Dynamics is committed to creating an inclusive team experience for all. Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or parental status, we believe our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their authentic self.