[Hiring] Software Engineer, Automotive and Industrial Architecture @Canonical

Role Description

We are hiring multiple positions from early-career engineers to experienced architects focused on the different dimensions of dependable software: cybersecurity, quality, and safety.

What does it take to bring the world’s open source software into mission-critical systems? At Canonical, we are driving the engineering discipline needed to build secure, reliable, and high-quality products that our automotive and industrial partners can depend on.

We operate at the boundary between upstream open source innovation and the industrial regulatory realities. Our engineers define the concepts, architectures, processes, verification strategies, and certification artifacts to transform a general-purpose platform into a dependable, certifiable foundation for automotive and industrial compute.

The role entails:

• 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.
• Collaborate with Canonical engineering teams to align development practices with industrial compliance needs.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• Contributions to open source projects, particularly in the area of Software Defined Vehicles.
• Knowledge of Debian packaging.
• Experience with Rust or safety-critical software development.

Benefits

• We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
• Annual compensation review.
• Performance-driven annual bonus.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.
• 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.