Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Austin, TX

Leads the Create Core platform engineering team, overseeing roadmap delivery, architecture, developer experience, accessibility, platform adoption, and technical quality. Manages 4–8 engineers, partners with Product and application teams, guides system design and code reviews, and develops a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and performance management. The role requires experience with cloud-first web platforms, AWS architecture, modern JavaScript technologies, Agile development, and cross-functional technical leadership.

Lead the electrical engineering team for designing and developing consumer products, oversee technical leadership in power electronics and embedded systems, and manage product development from concept to production.

Leads the operations engineering department supporting automation, tooling, controls, reliability, and manufacturing systems. Manages and develops engineering teams, designs and commissions automation solutions, oversees projects, budgets, documentation, risk management, training, and implementation. Establishes production KPIs, supports 24/7 operations, coordinates across sites and customers, and ensures compliance with medical validation and FDA-regulated manufacturing requirements.

Leads engineering strategy, architecture, reliability, delivery practices, and vendor selection across Axios products, platforms, workflows, and internal systems. Develops engineering managers and senior technical leaders, strengthens planning and quality, aligns engineering capacity with business priorities, and partners with executive, product, design, newsroom, and business stakeholders. The role also drives AI adoption in software development and defines engineering standards, benchmarks, and operating practices.

Leads multiple product engineering squads, owning delivery, architecture, technical priorities, production quality, security, scalability, staffing, hiring, retention, performance management, and team health. Partners with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering work with business goals, resolve delivery blockers, improve processes and tooling, and manage major technical decisions. Requires hands-on experience with demanding architectures and the ability to work across React, Python, AWS, and MongoDB technology stacks.

Leads engineering strategy and performance across multiple manufacturing business units and substrates. Responsibilities include developing engineering leaders, prioritizing initiatives, improving uptime, throughput, yield, reliability, and manufacturing readiness, standardizing engineering practices, supporting capital projects, and resolving complex technical and operational issues. The role partners with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, EH&S, Supply Chain, Finance, and other stakeholders to drive enterprise manufacturing performance and capability.

Leads the software engineering organization responsible for scalable, reliable applications and systems integrating hardware, embedded software, edge computing, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning. Sets technical strategy, develops engineering leaders, drives product delivery, establishes engineering standards, and ensures operational excellence across national-scale deployments. Partners with Product, Deployment, Data Science, and executive leadership to align roadmaps, resolve risks, and build high-performing distributed teams.

Lead multiple platform engineering teams to build scalable, high-volume SaaS infrastructure for security products. Drive technical roadmap, SRE and developer-experience best practices, integrate AI tooling, hire and coach managers, measure engineering performance, and partner with product and architecture to deliver iterative customer value.

Leads the multidisciplinary Integrated Sensor engineering organization across hardware, embedded and edge software, cloud platforms, and distributed systems. Sets technical strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and product delivery processes while scaling reliable systems for nationwide field deployment. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineering leaders, coordinating hardware and software development, improving testing and operational resilience, resolving field issues, and partnering with Product, Deployment, Data Science, and company leadership.

Leads the strategy, architecture, development, and operations of Temporal’s large-scale, multi-tenant compute platform. Builds and manages a high-ownership engineering team, drives roadmap execution, reliability, incident response, capacity planning, fleet utilization, cost efficiency, and customer alignment. Guides distributed-systems decisions involving workload isolation, security, scheduling, resource management, performance, virtualization, serverless infrastructure, and future accelerated GPU compute.

Leads a global test engineering organization responsible for end-to-end test strategy, including DFT, characterization, qualification, wafer sort, final test, production release, and sustaining. Owns test cost, yield, quality, capacity planning, and manufacturing readiness for semiconductor power products. Partners cross-functionally to resolve test escapes, yield excursions, and customer returns while driving ATE standardization, automation, data systems, and AI-enabled engineering practices. Develops technical leaders and ensures predictable NPI execution and high-volume production success.

Lead and scale core cloud and bare-metal infrastructure including SRE, global and HPC networking, and distributed storage. Define SLOs/SLAs, incident response, observability, and IaC. Architect InfiniBand/RoCE networks and high-performance storage to support large GPU workloads. Hire and mentor managers and senior ICs, partner with product and program teams to forecast capacity and drive reliability, throughput, and low-latency infrastructure at scale.

Lead global backend engineering for SoC and MCU programs from RTL to GDS, ensuring on-time tape-out meeting PPA targets. Scale distributed teams, standardize flows and methodologies, enable advanced-node signoff, partner with foundries and EDA vendors, and drive metrics-based execution and quality across concurrent programs.

Lead and define end-to-end SoC functional verification strategies (simulation, emulation, formal), drive verification closure for high-speed interfaces and integrated IPs, establish reusable UVM-based methodologies, oversee emulation/prototyping, debug pre-silicon issues, mentor engineering leads, and collaborate across architecture, RTL, firmware, and post-silicon teams to ensure first-pass silicon success.

Leads global test and product engineering strategy for power semiconductor products, owning characterization, qualification, yield ramp, test development, high-volume manufacturing, and sustaining operations. Drives ATE standardization, test-cost reduction, manufacturing readiness, yield and quality improvement, excursion resolution, and customer-return management. Partners cross-functionally with design, quality, reliability, operations, and manufacturing teams while managing budgets, headcount, capital planning, organizational development, and succession planning.

Lead strategy and delivery for enterprise software engineering and systems integration. Set architecture and engineering standards, manage multi-team portfolios, drive CI/CD, observability, security and operational excellence, oversee budgets and vendors, and develop senior technical management to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

Lead North American engineering delivery for industrial automation across US and Mexico. Oversee mechanical, electrical, PLC/robot programming, and installation teams; own project execution, utilization, gross margin, and project P&L; build talent and vendor networks; report KPIs to the CTO and ensure regional alignment with global technical strategy.

Lead the global Electrical Markets Division application engineering organization. Define and execute strategy, partner with R&D, product management, sales and operations, oversee application development, validation, demos, and technical optimization. Build and coach a global team, establish processes and best practices, support product introductions, and develop key customer relationships to drive scalable technical solutions and innovation priorities.

Leads and grows the engineering organization, sets technical strategy and roadmap, oversees execution across multiple teams, and provides technical direction on architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and quality. Partners with Product, Design, Operations, Risk, and the CTO to deliver customer-focused financial products. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineering leaders, improving processes, removing organizational bottlenecks, and balancing product delivery with long-term platform and infrastructure investments.

Lead and scale a Forward Deployed Engineering team embedding with enterprise customers to build production-grade AI-native workflows. Own delivery quality, stakeholder relationships, scoping, executive technical sponsorship, deal strategy, hiring, coaching, and partner enablement to ensure fast, repeatable, high-impact engagements.

Lead and transform the QA function for an AI-accelerated software organization. Define technical quality strategy, CI/CD gates, test-data approaches for PHI, and automation across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. Build and grow a high-performing quality engineering team, set release standards and exit criteria, integrate AI/LLM evaluation with MLEs, and provide auditable metrics for leadership and regulators.

Leads a 35-person mechanical engineering discipline, overseeing engineering operations, programs, project delivery, staff development, client relationships, business development, financial performance, and commercial growth. Manages 6–7 direct reports, supports proposals and contracts, guides program managers, ensures project quality and timelines, and drives continuous improvement. The role requires extensive A/E/C experience, a Professional Engineer license, commercial multi-site program expertise, and strong leadership and client-facing skills.

Leads the Engineering organization across two remote teams, directly managing, coaching, and developing engineers. Partners with Product to drive timely, high-quality delivery; staffs initiatives, develops technical leads, resolves cross-team risks, supports hiring, and contributes to architecture, technical debt, and scaling decisions. The role oversees execution, engineering process, quality, and team engagement while guiding a high-scale SaaS platform built with TypeScript, Python, Django, React, AWS, Postgres, and Redis.

You will lead engineering teams, develop managers, hire staff, drive quality, and ensure disciplined processes while representing products to stakeholders.

Lead global engineering IT infrastructure supporting 1,000+ semiconductor design engineers. Own strategy, availability, performance, security, and scalability of Linux platforms, HPC/compute farms, enterprise storage, revision control, automation, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and cross-functional alignment to improve engineering productivity and tapeout reliability.