Software Engineer, Automotive and Industrial Architecture
CanonicalRemote
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Posted April 15, 2026
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Job Description
This role involves developing and verifying secure, reliable, and certifiable open source software for automotive and industrial applications, ensuring compliance with industry standards and collaborating with engineering teams and industrial partners to integrate open source solutions into regulated environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate automotive and industrial cybersecurity, quality, and safety standards into engineering requirements and perform gap analyses.
- Create structured engineering artifacts such as requirements, traceability models, risk analyses, test strategies, and certification documentation.
- Design, implement, and execute verification and validation activities for regulated environments.
- Develop and improve automation and tooling for traceability, testing, compliance evidence generation, and reporting.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and industrial partners to ensure compliance and support audits and technical reviews.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation is based on geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and more frequent reviews for graduates and associates
Performance-driven annual bonus
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
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
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