Engineering Manager \| Lead, Inspire, Deliver

About the Role We are seeking an Engineering Manager (EM) to build and develop high-performing engineering teams through strong leadership, coaching, and organizational effectiveness. The Engineering Manager ensures engineers have the support, capabilities, and environment needed to perform at their best and successfully execute on business priorities. At Elliptic Labs, engineering spans embedded development, machine learning, embedded ML inference, signal processing, and software development. Staff Engineers provide technical leadership and drive development, while Product Owners are responsible for planning, backlog ownership, and day-to-day execution. Engineering Managers work closely with both, bringing together people leadership, technical understanding, and organizational effectiveness to help teams perform at their best. This role requires strong leadership, organizational skills, a solid technical foundation, and the ability to work closely with Staff Engineers and Product Owners to balance individual development, team effectiveness, engineering capacity, and company priorities. You will manage engineers across multiple product-oriented teams and report to the CTO. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing company at the intersection of AI, edge computing, and consumer technology, where your work can influence products used by millions of people around the world. What You’ll Own People management: hire, onboard, and coach engineers; run 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations.Team effectiveness and culture: build healthy ways of working, identify and remove organizational blockers, and create an engaged, high-performing engineering environment.Capacity and organizational planning: maintain a clear view of skills, capacity, and capabilities across engineering; anticipate gaps; and drive hiring and staffing decisions in line with company priorities.Engineering partnership: work closely with Staff Engineers and Product Owners to understand technical and product challenges, align priorities with available capacity, and build a shared understanding of commitments, risks, trade-offs, and organizational needs.What We’re Looking For Experience managing engineers, including hiring, coaching, career development, and performance management, in a software organization.A strong technical foundation in software engineering. Experience with embedded systems, machine learning, signal processing, or other relevant technical domains is a plus.A track record of building healthy, high-performing engineering teams and developing engineers at different stages of their careers.Strong communication skills, with the ability to build trust, give direct feedback, and navigate people-management topics constructively.Experience working across teams and technical domains, with the ability to understand dependencies, surface organizational risks, and help teams collaborate effectively.What Success Looks Like Engineers are engaged, well supported, and have clear expectations, feedback, and career development.A lightweight performance review and career development process is in place and working in practice.There is a clear and actionable view of engineering capacity, capabilities, individual contributions, organizational gaps, and hiring needs, aligned with company priorities.Product Owners, Staff Engineers, and management have a shared view of risks, trade-offs, and staffing needs.Organizational blockers and cross-team dependencies are surfaced early and addressed, enabling teams to make realistic commitments and reducing avoidable delays.Engineering teams have the people, capabilities, and environment they need to perform effectively and sustainably.Om bedriften Elliptic Labs is a global AI software company delivering embedded machine learning based sensing technology. Our software is deployed in hundreds of millions of devices worldwide through partnerships with leading smartphone and laptop manufacturers. Elliptic Labs is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE: ELABS). Sektor Privat Nettsted https://www.ellipticlabs.com/home/