Engineering Manager - Data Processing - Emesent

Engineering Manager, Data Processing

About Emesent

Emesent is a Brisbane-based world leader in autonomous LiDAR mapping and drone autonomy. Our technology captures the inaccessible: underground mines, GPS-denied environments, and complex-built spaces, serving customers across Mining, Defence and AEC surveying. We are scaling fast, with a newly launched product line and major opportunities in the pipeline.

The role

You will lead our Data Processing engineering group end to end: delivery, quality, support, technical direction and people. You are self-sufficient in execution across the disciplines your group needs, while staying deeply engaged with the rest of the business. You own outcomes, not just output. The role reports to the Director of Engineering. We are deliberately investing in engineering management as a discipline at Emesent, and we are hiring someone whose experience helps lift the whole management group, not only their own team.

The team

This team is home to our genuinely world-leading SLAM capability. Every scan a customer captures becomes a map through this team’s pipeline: highly detailed, highly accurate, and reliable enough that customers stake their deliverables on it. The same capability powers our unique autonomy, letting Hovermap fly and map where GPS cannot reach.

The scope runs from applied research to production software:

• The SLAM engine and processing workflows behind Hovermap and GX1: processing, merging, colourisation, georeferencing (RTK, PPK and GCP) and calibration.
• Libraries supporting real-time operations, including visualisation and autonomous flight.
• The processing backbone for Aura, our desktop processing application, and Aura Cloud, where cloud based processing is being built now.
• Production enablement: scanner calibration and automated accuracy checks that let manufacturing scale to demand.

The team is modernising its codebase and tooling while shipping improvements that lift our products. It is a

team of specialists doing work few teams anywhere get to do; your job is to point that capability at the biggest outcomes.

Responsibilities

Customer, product and business impact

• Represent the voice of the user: partner with Product to discover the biggest challenges our users have and to estimate effort, timelines and trade-offs; keep assumptions explicit and revisable.
• Own the business impact of your group’s work, not only its technical quality. Understand how your roadmap connects to revenue, customer commitments and company strategy.

Technical leadership and architecture