Software Engineering Manager (Defense/PhysicalAI)

Physical AI is moving from demos to fielded capability, and defense is where the stakes are highest. As Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of 10-12 software engineers who each own high-stakes deployments across air, ground, and maritime platforms. Your job is to make that team scale: hiring and developing exceptional engineers, setting technical direction across programs, and building the repeatable delivery practices that bring Applied Intuition's capabilities to more platforms and more customers without trading quality for speed.

This is a high-visibility player-coach role. You'll be on of the key engineering leaders within Applied Intuition for defense and government customers, own delivery outcomes across a portfolio of concurrent programs, and serve as the escalation point when requirements shift or technical trade offs get hard. You'll make and defend the call on scope, timeline, and staffing, and you'll partner with Defense leadership, product, and engineering to do it. You'll stay close to the technology: reviewing architectures, pressure-testing integration approaches, and diving in when a program needs it.