Technical Manager - Automotive and Industrial
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted December 1, 2025
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Job Description
A Technical Manager role focused on leading engineering efforts in automotive and industrial open source solutions, ensuring compliance with industry standards, guiding product development, and representing Canonical in relevant communities, all within a remote work environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute the automotive engineering roadmap and strategy at Canonical
- Lead and coordinate a globally distributed team of engineers
- Represent Canonical and Ubuntu in the automotive community, including standards consortia
- Ensure products and processes comply with automotive and industrial standards such as ISO21434, ISO26262, IEC 61508
- Lead Linux distribution and open source software strategy for automotive applications
- Develop skills and provide technical leadership through coaching and feedback
- Manage expectations with internal teams, management, and external stakeholders
- Advocate for modern, agile software development practices
- Develop and promote a collaborative engineering culture aligned with company values
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, and ideally have led product development initiatives that fulfilled compliance with one or more of the mentioned standards
- 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
- Experience working in an agile development environment
- Ability to develop and grow people through coaching, feedback, and hands-on technical leadership
- Ability to represent Canonical and Ubuntu in the automotive community, in front of customers, partners, and standards consortia
- Ability to define and execute an engineering roadmap for the automotive team at Canonical
- Experience building and leading a globally distributed team of engineers, including coordinating, guiding, and overseeing their work
- Ability to advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
- Willingness to work from home with international travel twice a year, up to two weeks at a time, for company events
Benefits & Perks
Fully remote working environment
Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD 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
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