How to apply for Engineering Manager, Field Service

About Omnidian

Omnidian is a certified B Corp founded in the US in 2016 that provides performance assurance for distributed solar and energy storage through 24/7 monitoring and diagnostics. It expanded to Australia in 2022, acquired Solar Service Guys in 2025, and opened an India talent hub in 2026. The India hub is new, so early hires help shape how it operates.

About the role

This role builds and leads the engineering team behind Omnidian's Field Service platform, which powers technician experience and field operations. You would be a founding member of the India engineering presence and help transition ownership of critical platform capabilities from the US to India. The job combines hands-on technical work with people leadership and close partnership with US-based engineering, product, and business leaders.

A typical day

A typical day likely includes code review, design discussions, and one-on-ones with engineers, plus calls with US-based engineering, product, and business leaders. You would spend time hiring and onboarding for the new India team and planning how to move platform ownership from the US to India. Exact routines are not stated in the job details, so ask about meeting cadence, on-call expectations, and time zone overlap in the interview.

Who Omnidian is looking for

• Has experience building or scaling an engineering team from an early stage, ideally in a new office or new region.
• Has hands-on engineering depth in building and operating a field service, CRM, or similar operational platform.
• Has managed engineers while staying technically involved, not only people management.
• Has worked across time zones with US-based teams and can communicate clearly with product and business leaders.

Tips for this application

• Emphasize any experience as a founding or early team member of an engineering office, since Omnidian calls this a First Wave role.
• Name specific field service, CRM, or technician-facing platforms you have built or operated, and describe your hands-on contribution.
• Show evidence of managing engineers while remaining technically active, with concrete examples of code, architecture, or design work you did yourself.
• Call out experience working with US or other remote teams across time zones, since this role partners closely with US leaders.
• Reference Omnidian's solar and energy storage business directly in your materials, and note the 2026 India hub launch to show you understand the context.

What to cover in your cover letter

State why you want to be a founding member of a new India engineering hub and what you would do in the first 6 to 12 months. Describe your experience building or scaling an engineering team, including hiring and developing engineers. Give a concrete example of a field service or CRM platform you built or operated, with your own technical contribution. Explain how you would transition ownership of platform capabilities from a US team to an India team.

Research before applying

• Read Omnidian's product and service pages to understand how solar monitoring, diagnostics, and field service connect.
• Look up the Solar Service Guys acquisition in Australia in 2025 and what it added to Omnidian's field service operations.
• Check what a certified B Corp is and what Omnidian commits to under that certification.
• Find any public information on Omnidian's engineering stack or field service platform, and if none is available, prepare questions about it for the interview.

Likely interview topics

Based on the job description, expect questions about:

• How you would build an engineering team from scratch in India and what the first 90 days look like.
• A specific field service or CRM platform you designed, built, or operated, and the technical decisions you made.
• How you balance hands-on technical work with people management as a team grows.
• How you would transition ownership of critical platform capabilities from a US team to a new India team.
• How you work with product and business leaders across time zones, with an example of a difficult cross-time-zone decision.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Applying as a pure people manager with no recent hands-on technical work, since the role is explicitly hands-on.
• Ignoring the founding aspect of the India hub and writing as if this were a standard manager role at an established office.
• Treating this as a generic software job and not addressing field service, CRM, or solar and energy storage operations.