JD – Engineering Manager
Location:
Pune
Experience:
7-12 Years
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering / Technology (Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, Electronics, or related field) Master’s degree in Engineering or Management
Employment Type:
Full-time
Reports To:
Founder & CEO
About the Company:
We founded Sakar Robotics to collapse fragmented point solutions into a single extensible mobile manipulation platform. Traditional automation requires bespoke integration per workflow—slow to deploy, rigid to evolve. We built a composable stack where perception, autonomy, manipulation and orchestration cooperate natively.
Guided by field feedback across regulated, high‑mix and throughput‑critical domains, we iterate on production reality—not lab abstractions—building durable leverage for customers.
Our mission is to deliver a unified robotics platform that can be rapidly configured to execute diverse workflows—reducing time‑to‑value, elevating safety, and embedding continuous improvement loops into daily operations.
Role Summary
We are looking for an Engineering Manager who can lead high-impact engineering teams while balancing people leadership, execution excellence, technical strategy, and business alignment. This role is critical in scaling our engineering organization and delivering reliable, high-quality systems deployed in real-world environments.
You will work closely with Product, Business, and cross-functional teams to translate company vision into predictable engineering outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
1. People Management & Team Growth
- Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams
- Drive regular 1:1s, feedback cycles, performance reviews, and career development
- Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, and quality
- Support hiring, onboarding, and team capability building
- Promote awareness and adherence to IP security and confidentiality practices
2. Delivery & Project Management
- Own end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives — planning to release
- Translate product and business requirements into clear milestones and deliverables
- Identify, assess, and mitigate delivery, dependency, and resourcing risks proactively
- Drive process optimization to improve predictability, efficiency, and quality
- Ensure disciplined execution without unnecessary process overhead
3. Technical Strategy
- Define and enforce architecture guidelines and engineering standards
- Guide system design decisions and provide architectural oversight
- Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform scalability and maintainability
- Ensure technical best practices around code quality, reviews, and documentation
- Safeguard company IP through technical controls such as access management and code ownership
4. Business Alignment
- Partner with Product and Leadership teams on roadmap planning
- Translate business priorities into realistic engineering plans and timelines
- Make informed trade-offs between speed, quality, and cost
- Communicate progress, risks, and roadmap impacts clearly to stakeholders
Must-Have Skills:
- 7+ years of engineering experience with 2+ years in people management
- Strong understanding of system design, architecture, and software engineering fundamentals
- Proven experience delivering complex projects in fast-paced environments
- Ability to lead both people and execution effectively
- Experience working closely with Product and Business stakeholders
- Experience in robotics, automation, embedded systems, or deep-tech products
- Exposure to distributed systems, real-time systems, or platform engineering
- Prior startup or scale-up experience
What We Value:
- Ownership over hierarchy
- Clarity over complexity
- Execution with accountability
- Strong engineering ethics and IP discipline
- Continuous learning and improvement
Why Join Us:
- Opportunity to build and scale a core engineering team
- Work on complex, real-world automation and robotics problems
- High ownership, high impact role with leadership visibility
- Culture focused on trust, quality, and long-term thinking
Soft Skills:
- Strong communication and coordination
- Ownership and accountability
- Problem-solving and proactive approach
- Adaptability in a fast-paced environment
- Team collaboration and positive attitude
Ready to make an impact?
Share your resume or even a short note about why you’d love to join us at aasavari@sakarrobotics.com
We’re excited to meet passionate people who love taking ownership and growing fast!
