Engineering Manager, Cloud

Brain Corp is a San Diego, California, USA-based AI company creating transformative core technology for the robotics industry. Our purpose is to create autonomous technology that helps the real world work better. Brain's robotic and AI solutions help retailers ensure that the right product is on the right shelf at the right price, in a clean environment. Through the BrainOS® Robotics Platform, which powers the largest global fleet of the Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) in operation in commercial public spaces, Brain Corp delivers insightful and efficient automated solutions in both commercial floor cleaning and inventory management, empowering organizations and their employees to achieve more.

Brain Corp currently powers more than 30,000 AMRs, representing the largest fleet of its kind in the world. Brain Corp is funded by the Soft Bank Vision Fund, Clearbridge, and Qualcomm Ventures.

Named a top workplace by the San Diego Union Tribune and USA today in 2025, we make life-changing impacts through innovation, helping workers globally unlock their abilities in orchestration with intelligent machines.

Brain Corp runs one of the world’s largest fleets of autonomous mobile robots, and the Cloud Platform is the nervous system that connects all of it. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead that team and the engineers who build it. This is the cloud backbone behind every Brain robot in the field: it ingests data from a global fleet, powers fleet operations and customer-facing applications, and is the platform every Brain product is built on.

This is a builder’s seat at a pivotal moment. You'll lead a team of strong cloud engineers, own the platform’s reliability and roadmap, and shape the architecture for Brain’s next phase of scale, with the mandate and the executive backing to grow the team, raise the bar, and turn the cloud platform into a product others build on. If you want real ownership, high leverage, and a team that ships things robots in the real world depend on, this is it.

The Engineering Manager, Cloud is a hands-on leader. People leadership and delivery are the core of the job, and you'll stay close enough to the technology to make sound architectural calls and earn the trust of senior engineers. You'll partner closely with the platform’s Principal and Staff technical leaders and bring steady, energizing leadership to a team in a period of growth.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and high-quality engineering execution
• Drive high-performance results through regular coaching and performance reviews that support long-term career growth, and build the next layer of technical leadership within the team
• Own hiring, onboarding, and ramp-to-impact across the Cloud Platform team, building the bench through a period of senior hiring and growth
• Own roadmap execution, the sprint and release cadence, and on-time delivery of cloud platform capabilities across the Robot and Customer interfaces
• Define and execute the team roadmap aligned with company and Platform strategy, balancing near-term execution against long-term platform health
• Navigate high-level tradeoffs between competing priorities (performance, schedule, cost, reliability, scalability) to meet commitments without compromising quality
• Own production reliability, on-call rotation, and incident response, driving toward clear service-level objectives and durable fixes over short-term patches
• Own cloud cost management and efficiency, partnering with engineering and finance to keep platform spend aligned with the business
• Partner with the platform’s Principal and Staff technical leaders on architecture and technical strategy, and make the call when a call is needed
• Provide architectural guidance for complex, high-availability distributed systems to ensure reliability, scalability, and security across the platform
• Partner cross-functionally with Platform, Apps, Autonomy, Product, and the GTM teams who consume cloud services, and represent Cloud in planning and prioritization
• Directly contribute to development activities to achieve commitments as required, and…