Technical Manager - Automotive and Industrial
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Globally remote role
- Experience leading/managing software developers required
- Knowledge of ISO21434, ISO26262, SOTIF, IEC 61508 required
- Personal L&D budget of 2,000USD per annum
Role overview
Canonical is seeking a Technical Manager for Automotive and Industrial with a passion for open source and precision engineering. The role involves leading a team of engineers to adapt products to automotive and industrial specific requirements, bridging the gap between Open-Source innovation and stringent certification processes to provide a secure and advanced platform for automotive innovation. Reporting directly to the Vice President of Engineering Excellence and working closely with the Automotive Product Manager, the successful candidate will define and execute a vision and roadmap for automotive at Canonical, ensuring Linux distributions and products support standards addressing processes, cyber-security, and safety concerns.
Responsibilities
- Work with Product Management to refine the vision and strategy for automotive at Canonical
- Define and execute an engineering roadmap for the automotive team at Canonical
- Represent Ubuntu and Canonical in the automotive community, in front of customers, partners and consortia
- Lead our Linux distribution and open source software strategy in Automotive
- Build and lead a globally distributed team of engineers and coordinate, guide and oversee their work
- Develop skills through coaching, feedback and hands-on technical leadership
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
- Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
- Work from home with international travel twice a year, up to two weeks at a time, for company events
- Represent Canonical and Ubuntu in the industrial and automotive community and standards consortia
- Make sure our Linux distribution and products, as well as ways of working, are supporting standards addressing processes, cyber-security and safety concerns such as described by (but not limited to) IEC 61508, ISO9001 and Automotive specific ISO 21434 UNECE R155 & R156, ISO26262 ASIL (from B to D) or ASPICE
- Lead, challenge, and positively influence the culture and work with your team on strategy and execution to enhance delivery quality, security and developer experience
Requirements
- Strong software engineering, Linux, and open source background
- In-depth knowledge in Linux packages and embedded development
- Knowledge of automotive and industry standards such as ISO21434, ISO26262, SOTIF, IEC 61508
- Experience in C/C++ and Python programming
- Practical experience in automotive, including functional safety, embedded systems, cloud and related software trends
- Experience leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers
- Track record of timely delivery and high quality software
- Track record of developing and growing people
- Experience working in an agile development environment
Nice to have
- Ideally have led product development initiatives that fulfilled compliance with one or more of the mentioned standards (ISO21434, ISO26262, SOTIF, IEC 61508)
Benefits
- Fully remote working environment
- Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
- Eligibility for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation for certain roles
Additional details
- Location: This is a Globally remote role
- Base pay depends on geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills
- Canonical is the company that publishes Ubuntu
- Canonical has been a remote-first company since 2004
- Originally posted on Himalayas