Senior Engineering Manager

You will lead an engineering team responsible for in-vehicle middleware and platform services for the Sonatus Fastlane Collector and Copilot products, with a focus on people management, process, architecture, and code reviews. This is an opportunity for an engineering leader who enjoys growing people, improving engineering systems and guiding technical direction in a complex embedded software environment.

Responsibilities

Manage, mentor, and grow an embedded software development team; Foster an inclusive, collaborative culture focused on technical excellence, continuous learning and ownership; Drive the planning and delivery of software for Fastlane products on embedded Linux and High-Performance Compute (HPC) platforms; Provide architectural oversight through system design and code reviews, ensuring the software meets high-availability, low-latency, and fault-tolerance requirements for vehicle telemetry; Align agile development practices with automotive reliability standards (e.g., MISRA); Define hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing strategies and resolve integration bottlenecks in partnership with Hardware Engineering and QA; Improve developer workflows in collaboration with the internal tools team; Integrate LLM/agentic tooling into the engineering environment to increase development velocity while maintaining code quality

Requirements

Degree (BS, MS, or PhD) in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related technical field; 8+ years in embedded software development, including technical leadership and architectural design; 3+ years of engineering management experience with direct reports; Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate complex development trade-offs clearly to Product, Hardware, and QA teams; Experience delivering commercial software products for mission-critical, internet-connected devices; Deep experience building embedded systems, modern C++, inter-process communication; Experience with embedded operating systems (Linux, Android, QNX) and HIL testing; Experience implementing communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet, HTTP, MQTT)

Nice to have

Experience in other highly reliable embedded environments such as industrial automation, robotics, medical devices, telecommunications, aerospace or IoT; Familiarity with automotive standards (e.g., AUTOSAR Adaptive, UDS) is a plus