Software Engineer, Automotive and Industrial Architecture
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 20 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Compensation shaped by location, experience, and performance with annual reviews.
- Remote role based in the EMEA region.
- Twice-yearly in-person team sprints in interesting locations.
- Experience with automotive/industrial safety/cybersecurity standards (ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, etc.) required.
Role overview
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. The company is hiring engineers and architects to drive the engineering discipline needed to build secure, reliable, and high-quality products for automotive and industrial sectors. The role involves translating regulatory standards into engineering requirements, collaborating with teams and partners, and improving processes and tooling for compliance and certification.
Responsibilities
- Translate automotive and industrial cybersecurity, quality, and safety standards into actionable engineering requirements and perform gap analyses against current capabilities.
- Drive the creation of structured engineering artifacts, including requirements, traceability models, risk analysis, test strategies, and certification documentation.
- Collaborate with Canonical engineering teams to align development practices with industrial compliance needs.
- Design, implement, and execute verification and validation activities required to qualify Ubuntu and other components for regulated environments.
- Develop and improve automation and tooling to scale traceability, testing, compliance evidence generation, and reporting.
- Engage with industrial partners to understand their expectations, align external expectations and internal capabilities, and support audits and technical reviews.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of Canonical’s internal processes and standards capability as the team scales.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering foundation with experience in developing complex systems on Linux.
- Professional experience with C, C++, and Python in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience working within automotive, industrial, or other regulated environments governed by safety, cybersecurity, or quality standards (such as ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, IEC 61508, IEC 62443, SOTIF, or (A)SPICE), and applying them in practice.
- Experience in system or software architecture, implementation, or verification and validation of complex embedded systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce precise technical documentation.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed team and engage with industrial partners.
Nice to have
- Contributions to open source projects, particularly in the area of Software Defined Vehicles.
- Knowledge of Debian packaging.
- Experience with Rust or safety-critical software development.
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
- Annual compensation review.
- Recognition rewards.
- Annual holiday leave.
- Maternity and paternity leave.
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform.
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.
Additional details
- Location: Remote role based in the EMEA region.
- Canonical is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
- Canonical is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
- Ubuntu is the world’s most widely used Linux distribution in general, and Canonical aims to make it the best choice for automotive and industrial sectors.
- Compensation is shaped by geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and performance-driven bonuses.
- Canonical is an equal-opportunity employer, fostering a workplace free from discrimination.