Robotics Engineering Manager at Canonical

As an engineering manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to your team: helping them grow as engineers, do important and satisfying work, and have a great time while doing it. Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role. You will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

What you'll do

• Work with Product Management to define the vision and strategy for robotics on Ubuntu
• Define and execute an engineering roadmap for the Robotics team at Canonical
• Represent Ubuntu and Canonical in the upstream ROS project and broader robotics community
• Coordinate, guide, and oversee the engineering work of your team
• Build and lead a globally distributed team of engineers
• 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, for internal and external events

Who you are

• You have a strong software engineering, Linux, and open source background
• You have in-depth knowledge of C/C++ and Python programming
• You have practical experience in robotics, including ROS and related software components
• 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