Technical Manager - Automotive and Industrial

We have created a role for a Technical Manager, Automotive and Industrial with a passion for open source and precision engineering. Today, Canonical is providing secure and reliable products to our industrial and automotive partners. Our solutions are bridging the gap between Open-Source innovation and industry spec...

Your role will include the ability to grow, lead a team of dedicated engineers aiming at adapting our products to automotive and industrial specific requirements. You will represent Canonical and Ubuntu in the industrial and automotive community and standards consortia. You and your team will make sure our Linux dis...

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

You have a strong software engineering, Linux, and open source background
You have in-depth knowledge in Linux packages and embedded development
You have knowledge of automotive and industry standards such as ISO21434, ISO26262, SOTIF, IEC 61508, and ideally have led product development initiatives that fulfilled compliance with one or more of the mentioned standards
You have experience in C/C++ and Python programming
You have practical experience in automotive, including functional safety, embedded systems, cloud and related software trends
You have experience leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers
You have a track record of timely delivery and high quality software
You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it
You have experience working in an agile development environment