Engineering Manager - Video Analytics

Axis is hiring an Engineering Manager on the French Riviera, where the Alps meet the sea!

Lead our Sophia-Antipolis video analytics team and help shape the future of AI-based analytics running on millions of cameras worldwide.

Do you get your energy from developing people and helping a team deliver? Do you want to work with cutting-edge AI where you have real influence on product direction? As Engineering Manager – Video Analytics, you will make sure our engineers have the support, structure and coaching they need to build products that matter.

Who is your future team?

We are an international team of around 15 computer vision and graphics, AI and software engineers in Sophia-Antipolis. Today the team is organized into sub-teams that form around the features and products we build. We also work hand in hand with a dedicated QA team based on the same site. Together we cover the full chain of video analytics: research, data, algorithm and product development, accuracy evaluation and quality assurance to deliver and maintain market-ready products. We work closely with the other analytics teams across Axis R&D sites as well as other software, hardware and product management teams.

Our secret? Passion, kindness and knowledge sharing, all in a great place to live and work.

What you'll do here as Engineering Manager?

You will lead the team and report to the Site Manager. This is a hands-on role: beyond people management, you will do project management work and own how the team plans and delivers – backlog, priorities, project coordination, and the path from innovation work to product. As AI changes the way software is built, this role will evolve too: you will help define what engineering management looks like in an AI-augmented team, and how planning, delivery and people development adapt.

Your main tasks will be to:

• Lead, inspire and develop your engineers, balancing the needs of the company with the needs of each individual.
• Own planning and the backlog: set priorities with engineering and product stakeholders, and work with tech leads, QA and product owners.
• Be accountable for delivery: make sure the team meets its commitments and that progress is visible to stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement of how the team works: processes, AI-enabled tools and engineering practices.
• Support and improve how the team is organized: provide operational support to the sub-teams and their leads and adapt our setup as features and products evolve.
• Turn innovation into product: ensure research initiatives are clearly scoped and followed up, and that the most promising ones make it efficiently into product features.
• Contribute to the technical and strategic direction of our analytics area, together with the Analytics management team.
• Collaborate across sites, especially with R&D and product management in Sweden, and with business stakeholders.
• Build the right competences through recruitment and onboarding, so the team has the skills our roadmap needs.
• Handle standard management tasks: development talks, salary reviews and team budget.

Who are we looking for?

You have a strong technical interest and enjoy driving strategic and technical initiatives. You lead from a people perspective. You create a safe environment for coaching, feedback and collaboration, and you know how to combine listening with deciding. You challenge engineers constructively, help them prioritize, make clear trade-offs and keep the team focused on what matters most. You are comfortable working across sites and cultures, and you are curious about how AI is changing the way software products are built.

We’re looking for someone who embodies Axis’ values – openness, teamwork and collaboration – and who enjoys turning ideas into structured, high-impact results in a dynamic R&D environment.

We'd love to hear that you have/are:

• A master’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or a related engineering field – a focus on imaging or video is a plus.
• Proven experience leading software engineers, as project manager, team lead or engineering manager.
• Experience working in an Agile setup, including backlog ownership and delivery planning, with strong project management skills and good knowledge of common methods and tools (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence).
• A solid software development background and a strong track record of building and shipping high-quality software products.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to foster team spirit.
• A structured and pragmatic way of working, strong communication skills and a long-term view of the full product lifecycle.
• Fluent English and French, both required for daily collaboration and cross-site work (Swedish is a plus).

Bonus points for experience in:

• Embedded software or camera/imaging systems.
• Video analytics, computer vision or deep learning algorithm development.
• Software architecture and tooling that improve team productivity.

What Axis has to offer

Join a global leader in network video and work with modern technologies alongside highly skilled colleagues around the world. You will have real room to shape the team, its ways of working and its products.

This is an on-site role at our Sophia-Antipolis office. As part of the team there, you’ll enjoy a caring environment, sustainable mobility incentives, a corporate bonus, ongoing training and self-development, comprehensive insurance and a pension plan, plus additional local perks. You’ll also collaborate closely with our teams in Sweden, with opportunities to travel for onboarding, management forums and joint projects.

Axis is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to responsible business and has signed the United Nations Global Compact, a worldwide initiative for corporate sustainability.

Look at your future colleagues!

Ready to act?

Are you thrilled about the job description and have found a personal match? Send in your application!

Contact our hiring manager Marie-Claude Frasson at marie-claude.frasson@axis.com if you want more information.