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Engineering manager embedded
Axon Enterprise INC · 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 117 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 19 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Axon Enterprise INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “Sr Engineering Program Manager I” (Architectural and Engineering Managers) in AZ: $130k–$170k, median $138k. Most were filed at wage level I (67%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Axon Enterprise INC
The US Department of Labor certified 117 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 19 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Join Axon and be a Force for Good. At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other. Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter. Your Impact You will manage a high-impact software engineering team that develops embedded software for devices connecting cameras and other peripherals, ensuring critical evidence is captured during mission-essential moments for our customers. This is an opportunity to work alongside talented software and firmware engineers and contribute to the creation of next-generation public safety products, including body-worn cameras, in-car cameras, wireless microphones, and more. As an Engineering Manager on the Connected Devices team, you'll take on a wide range of responsibilities that will keep each day engaging. These include conducting code reviews, contributing to technical development, overseeing upstream and downstream integrations, managing projects, reviewing and shaping software architecture, ensuring engineering and security excellence, recruiting talent, and managing the team's growth. In addition to navigating complex engineering trade-offs, your customer empathy enables you to propose innovative solutions to their challenges. You'll collaborate closely with product managers and designers to ensure we deliver the right solutions for our customers. What You’ll Do Location: Onsite in Seattle, WA or Boston, MA Reports To: Senior Engineering Manager Direct Reports: Roughly 8 to start, with expectations to scale it further in future years • Lead and grow a high performing team that designs and develops embedded applications and network configurations for Axon's current and future products • Manage a team, demonstrate empathy, and provide clear career growth for Engineers • Collaborate and clearly communicate with global teams during all parts of the Product Development Life-Cycle to drive timely new feature and product launches • Instill a culture within the team of continuous process improvement and adoption of metrics • Set a high technical bar for the team by leading architecture, design and code reviews • Collaborate across Product Management, Design, and Engineering teams to create integrated solutions that delight our customers • Lead a team to build software that adheres to our high bar on quality, stability and latency in this mission-critical space • Work to identify and integrate latest open source technologies to help meet our product requirements • Improve our software engineering process, including long-term thinking, sprint planning/retrospective and stand-ups What You Bring • Minimum 3 years of experience Leading Teams with Empathy, Objectivity, and a Mentorship mindset • Minimum 10 years experience primarily with Real-world Embedded Engineering projects that went to market • Experience implementing Engineering Processes that emphasize Quality, Security, Maintainability, Extensibility and Operational Discipline • 5+ years experience of professional software development in C/C++, Go, Rust, Python and/or another systems programming language • 5+ years experience writing unit, integration and/or system level tests • Networking knowledge (such as TCP/IP, VPN, DNS, DHCP, tunneling to support a diverse array of network configurations) is a plus • Understanding of Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, run-time analysis, o