Director of Engineering

We're hiring a Director of Engineering to build the software organization and systems that run Nox Metals. You will own technical direction, engineering execution, and team development across customer software, internal operations, data, infrastructure, and applied machine learning. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will make architecture and hiring decisions, but you will also get close to the code, the factory floor, and the people using what we build. Nox Metals is a technology company with operations in Ferndale, Michigan and Los Angeles, supplying aluminum plate, bar, and rounds to aerospace and defense manufacturers.

Responsibilities

Set the technical strategy and engineering roadmap for the company; Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing engineering team; Establish a durable architecture across customer, commercial, and manufacturing systems; Stay close enough to the code to review critical designs and unblock difficult work; Turn company priorities into clear technical plans, owners, and delivery dates; Raise the standard for reliability, security, testing, observability, and documentation; Work directly with sales, operations, finance, and manufacturing to understand real workflows; Build an engineering culture that values speed, judgment, ownership, and direct user contact; Make thoughtful build-versus-buy decisions and manage technical risk; Measure whether engineering work improves customer experience and factory performance

Requirements

Strong technical leader who can move between architecture, execution, and people management; Still technically sharp and willing to get into the details; Experienced shipping and operating business-critical software; Clear about priorities and able to make decisions with incomplete information; Direct, thoughtful communicator who raises the performance of the people around them; Comfortable working with both engineers and factory operators; Motivated by measurable business and operational outcomes; Low ego, high ownership, and steady under pressure

Nice to have

Experience in manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, or industrial software; Experience with optimization, data products, or production machine learning; Experience scaling an engineering team in a fast-growing company; Comfort using AI tools to improve engineering speed and quality

Benefits

Equity in Nox Metals; Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance