Software Engineering Manager

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Compensation: $190K – $240K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

Company Overview

Echo Neurotechnologies is an exciting new startup in the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) space, driving innovation through advanced hardware engineering and AI solutions. Our mission is to deliver cutting-edge technologies that restore autonomy to people living with disabilities and improve their quality of life.

Team Culture

Join a small, dedicated team of knowledgeable and motivated professionals. Our early-stage environment offers the opportunity to take ownership of broad decisions with significant and long-lasting impact. We emphasize continuous learning and growth, fostering cross-functional collaboration where your contributions are vital to our success.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to coordinate development of a data-intensive application platform, and its integrations with ML workflows, clients, and devices. You’ll support a small team in planning and delivering complex work, shaping the technical strategy and day-to-day execution. Your work will help translate research-validated neurotechnology into dependable, commercially ready product features.

Role Responsibilities

• Introduce and foster engineering best practices that emphasize code quality, modularity, usability, and long-term flexibility.

• Mentor and develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, and technical guidance, including people-management responsibilities.

• Design and implement key modules across the server-side product and its integration points.

• Partner closely with Quality and Regulatory teams to produce high-quality technical documentation.

• Translate validated research concepts into robust, production-quality software.

Role Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering medical software products throughout the full product lifecycle.

• Experience planning and delivering multi-person software projects.

• Demonstrated success leading or mentoring engineers.

• Solid understanding of systems involving ML pipelines, device integration, and distributed architectures.

• Excellent communication skills and comfort working across research, product, and quality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating cloud, ML, and device software into a cohesive product.

• Experience building data rich and high performance server software.

• Experience shaping engineering processes and establishing technical roadmaps.

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work on exciting, cutting-edge projects to transform patients’ lives in a highly collaborative work environment.

• Competitive compensation, including stock options.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• 401(k) program with matching contributions.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Echo Neurotechnologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Confidentiality

All applications will be treated confidentially. Applicants may be asked to sign an NDA after the initial stages of the interview process.