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Manager, NIBRS and Compliance Engineering
Axon Enterprise INC · 🇺🇸 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 Axon's NIBRS and Compliance team is looking for an Engineering Manager who will lead a squad of software engineers. That squad builds, certifies, and continually improves NIBRS and other compliance reporting capabilities (e.g., crash, citation, and state supplemental reporting) in Axon's public safety records management and data platforms. This work automates officer workflows, delivers real-time validation, and enables agencies to submit state and federal crime reports as well as other compliance reporting requirements. Axon has led the global effort to protect life through electric weapons, body cameras, real-time sensors, public safety software products, and AI tools. Axon is uniquely positioned to tie together every aspect of an incident so agencies can prepare, respond, deliver justice, support officers, and increase community safety. As manager of this team, you will stay close to the work, raise the bar on how the team operates, grow the engineers who do it, and set a clear vision for the next generation of NIBRS and compliance engineering capabilities at Axon. What You'll Do Location: Remotely from the United States. Travel as needed to Axon hubs and customer/state program sites (typically up to 25%). Reports to: Senior Director, Productivity Direct Reports: 10 NIBRS/Compliance Engineers • Lead a squad of NIBRS and compliance engineers; stay close to current work, constraints, and customer/state program commitments so you can coach, unblock, and make sound tradeoffs. • Responsible for technical and domain details: NIBRS submission and validation frameworks, state-specific implementations, certification paths, and a high bar for quality, performance, and compliance accuracy on production systems. • Identify challenges, propose solutions, and seek feedback from leadership, R&D, and agency/state stakeholders. • Own and continually improve how the team operates: planning, execution, reviews, incident and certification follow-through, and processes that support deployment and evolution at scale. • Accountable to leadership for resource allocation, delivery, and team performance. • Mentor engineers on the team; set clear expectations, give frequent feedback, and grow the team as certification scope and product surface area expand. • Partner with R&D and Product Enablement so national and state compliance reporting requirements are implemented in Axon's records management system. • Define where the engineering team goes next (states, report types, automation, and platform capabilities) and translate that vision into a sequenced roadmap with leadership. What You Bring • Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder programs from start to finish, including work that spans product, engineering, and external agencies or regulators. • Managerial experience with developing teams, and anticipating future demand. • Effective communication with both technical and non-technical people, including clients and internal leaders • Demonstrated ability to improve team operations, quality, and delivery. • Experience developing and/or maintaining production systems; familiarity with TypeScript/JavaScript, Python or similar. • NIBRS, UCR, and/or other complianc