Engineering Manager
- Location
- Pune, MH, India
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
Experience: 12 - 18
Engineering Manager
The opportunity Lead assigned engineering teams and own their people, technical execution and product quality.You will turn product priorities into credible engineering commitments and develop robotic subsystems that work reliably together, from prototypes through validation, repeatable production and customer use.
This role combines direct people leadership with strong technical judgment. You will review difficult design decisions, build capable technical leads and ensure that engineering work improves performance, reliability and lifecycle cost. Bring depth in at least one discipline and the ability to lead across mechanical, electrical, embedded, controls and software interfaces.
How the role works with other teams You own people, capability, technical execution and quality for assigned engineering teams. Product owns priorities and product requirements; system technical leads own system architecture and interfaces. The TPM owns integrated program execution. Operations owns procurement, manufacturing, deployment and service. Formal technical and safety approvals follow assigned company authority.
Key responsibilities Leadership, technical decisions and productization
People leadership and engineering ownership
- Hire, coach and develop engineers and technical leads. Establish clear subsystem ownership, expectations and career paths; run regular feedback and performance reviews, address performance gaps, and build the capabilities required by the product roadmap.
- Develop technical leaders and effective delegation so the team can own increasingly complex work. Identify critical skill gaps, strengthen onboarding and knowledge sharing, and maintain a practical hiring and development plan.
Technical direction and system interfaces
- Own engineering decisions within your scope with architects and domain leads. Review alternatives using calculations, prototypes, simulation and test evidence; assess performance, reliability, safety implications and cost, and document the rationale for consequential trade-offs.
- Maintain clear mechanical, electrical, firmware, controls and software interface requirements with system technical leads. Address timing, data contracts, failure behavior and compatibility as applicable; promote common designs and reuse across variants while making exceptions and their costs explicit.
Productization and lifecycle cost
- Bring manufacturing, test and service needs into design reviews early. Evaluate assembly effort, testability, diagnostics, maintainability, supplier constraints and lifecycle cost alongside product performance; ensure design choices support repeatable production and field use.
- Own engineering readiness for prototype, validation and pilot-production builds. Ensure released designs, bills of materials, firmware and software versions, test procedures and technical documentation are coherent; work with suppliers and Operations to resolve build defects and qualify changes.
Verification and reliable operation
- Define risk-based verification with system and validation owners, tracing requirements and failure modes to tests. Cover representative parcel flows, fleet sizes, peak workloads, relevant communication or sensor faults, degraded operation and recovery; use results to expose system limits.
- Build reusable test capability through appropriate simulation, test rigs, hardware-in-the-loop and automated regression. Ensure reproducible results across supported configurations, and design in telemetry, logs, health checks and diagnostics that accelerate fault isolation in the lab and field.
Key responsibilities Verification, release quality and field reliability
Release quality and corrective action
- Own the readiness recommendation for your engineering scope, including test evidence, critical defects, operating limits and configuration compatibility. Review change impact on deployed systems and recovery options; ensure safety-relevant changes receive required technical and safety approvals, including independent review where applicable.
- Lead significant defects through containment, root-cause analysis, corrective action and verification. Reproduce field failures, address gaps in requirements, design or tests, and check for recurrence. Feed reliability and operating data back into designs and engineering priorities.
Execution and engineering effectiveness
- Convert priorities into work packages, credible estimates and capacity-based commitments. Balance new development, reliability, technical debt and sustaining work with Product; provide theTPM with clear dependencies, risks and recovery options when plans change.
- Use a focused engineering scorecard to improve delivery predictability, validation effectiveness, release quality and field reliability. Work with Product,Systems, Quality and Operations to resolve bottlenecks, maintain useful documentation and turn improvements into repeatable engineering practices.
What you will deliver
- A capable engineering team with clear subsystem ownership, technical leadership and development plans.
- Credible engineering commitments and reviewed designs with documented technical trade-offs.
- Maintained interfaces, reusable tests and traceable release evidence for supported configurations.
- Verified corrective actions, effective diagnostics and engineering inputs for repeatable production and service.
First 90 days Assess team capability, subsystem ownership, architecture interfaces, delivery commitments and major product risks. Establish a baseline for validation gaps and field reliability; agree hiring, development and engineering improvements with accountable owners.
Experience and capabilities
- Typically 12+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 4+ years of direct engineering people management. Technical scope and leadership results matter more than tenure alone.
- Evidence of delivering a complex robotic, industrial, mechatronic or embedded product or subsystem into production or customer use, including responsibility for its performance after launch.
- Deep expertise in at least one relevant engineering discipline, with the ability to review technical work and make informed decisions across system boundaries.
- A record of consequential design decisions, integration or reliability problems resolved with evidence, and improvements to productization, testability or maintainability.
- Demonstrated hiring, coaching, performance management and development of technical leads, together with credible capacity planning and engineering delivery commitments.
- Practical experience with requirements, design reviews, automated or instrumented testing, controlled releases, configuration management and verified root-cause resolution.
- An engineering or related degree, or equivalent practical experience. Clear communication and effective collaboration with Product, systems specialists, manufacturing, quality and field teams.
Additional experience that will help Autonomous mobile robots, warehouse automation, fleet orchestration, embedded or motion-control systems, distributed operational software, simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing.Experience with production ramp, supplier engineering and customer-system integration will be valuable.
What success looks like Over the following6 to 12 months, deliver measurable progress against agreed baselines in:
- Stronger technical ownership and demonstrable growth of engineers and technical leads.
- More dependable engineering commitments, with less late rework and earlier resolution of integration risks.
- Better verification and release evidence, fewer escaped defects and fewer recurring field failures.
- Improved performance, availability, recovery and lifecycle cost within the team's scope, against agreed operating conditions and baselines.
From UNBOXROBOTICS LABS PRIVATE LIMITED's careers page (Keka), checked 2 Nov 2026.
How to apply
- Select Apply on unboxrobotics.com. It opens UNBOXROBOTICS LABS PRIVATE LIMITED's own application form in a new tab, run on Keka.
- Fill in the form and upload your résumé there. Jobiwork never sees your application.
- UNBOXROBOTICS LABS PRIVATE LIMITED will reply to you directly. No real employer asks you for money to apply.
Posted 2 Nov 2026 · checked 2 Nov 2026 · Report this job