Software Engineering Manager

Work Model: Work Model: You'll work in a hybrid model, onsite at your designated Regal Rexnord location at least 3 days per week (Monday-Thursday), with flexibility to work remotely up to 2 days, including Friday.

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Position Overview

We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead product planning, technical execution, and team leadership for our servo drive development teams. In this role, you will shape firmware priorities, coordinate product roadmaps with Product Management, and guide major software efforts from concept through release.

Based at our global headquarters in RadfordVA, this position offers a hands‑on, team‑oriented environment.We emphasize continuous improvement and agile development to create products known for quality and features.We design products with the depth and flexibility advanced controls engineers need, while keeping them approachable for engineers who are earlier in their careers.

This role sits at the center of a cross‑functional engineering environment where firmware, tools, and product direction must stay aligned. You will work across the organization to turn business needs into well‑executed products.

This is a strong fit for someone who likes both technical depth and leadership: someone who can make sound product decisions, guide teams through complex work, and stay engaged in the technical choices that shape software used in demanding industrial motion applications.

This is a critical role within Kollmorgen with high responsibility and future leadership opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Own software backlog priorities, technical direction, and release planning.
• Turn product goals into clear development plans, stories, and execution priorities.
• Partner with Product Management, application engineers, and other technical leaders tomaintaina coordinated product roadmap.
• Lead major software efforts for servo drive products, including scope, architecture, and priorities.
• Drive planning and requirementsdefinitionso teams build the right products with disciplined execution.
• Providepeopleleadership to embedded software engineers.
• Promote strong collaboration between engineering teams during planning and execution.
• Support the growth of engineers through coaching, technical guidance, and feedback.
• Mentor early‑career engineers in software development, industrial control system knowledge, and engineering practice.

Responsibilities will scale with experience. Additionaltasks may be assigned as needed.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, ora relatedfieldrequired.
• 10+ years of software development experience required.
• 5+ years of software leadership experience (project or people leadership) required.
• Experience working with embedded software teamsrequired.
• Software Product Leadership: Ability to own backlog flow, feature planning, and cross‑team execution.
• Technical Leadership: Proven ability to guide software teams on architecture, product direction, and major project execution.
• Planning and Prioritization: Ability to coordinate priorities between Engineering, Customer Support, and Product Management while keeping technical execution on track.
• Communication: Clear communication with engineers, managers, application engineers, and product stakeholders.
• Decision Quality: Good judgment in tradeoffs, scope, risk, andexecutiontiming.
• Team Leadership: Ability to align teams, remove blockers, andmaintainprogress on important work.
• Learning Agility: Ability to learn products, customer use cases, and business context quickly.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Experience in industrial automation, motion control, or related productsstronglypreferred.
• Motion control or servo drive product experience.
• Industrial control systems experience.
• Experience as a firmware product owner, software manager, or technical program leader.
• Experience leading software teams through organizational change.

Work Type

Hybrid: This role follows a Hybrid Work Schedule requiring a minimum of 3 in‑office days per week, Monday through Thursday, at your designated Regal Rexnord office, with theoptionto work remotely up to 2 days per week, including Friday.

Leveling Language

This role may be filled atdifferent levelsdepending on the candidate's experience, skills, and business needs.

Pay Transparency Language

Expected Base Salary Range: $100,000-$155,800 The salary range provided is intended to display the value of the company's basepaycompensation for this position. Salary is dependent on a multitude of factors, including but not limited to the physical worksite location, the geographic market of that location, candidate's skill set, level of experience,educationand internal peer compensation comparisons among other potential factors.

Export Controlled Language

Restrictions imposed by federal export control laws may limit this job opportunity to candidates who are a 'U.S. Person',which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted asylum in the United States, and refugees in the United States, or who otherwise can qualify for a license that permits them to hold the position.

Sponsorship Language

Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
• Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Paid Leaves
• Tuition Assistance

About Regal Rexnord

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company's electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company's automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Company's end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

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