Engineering Manager, Platform Integration, Robot Software

As Engineering Manager, Platform Integration, you lead the team responsible for vehicle-facing software and integration across platforms. You’ll shape technical direction, manage delivery and roadmaps, and partner with cross-functional teams to scale vehicle integrations for OEM programmes. You’ll balance immediate programme needs with long-term architecture, tooling and reliability, driving repeatable processes and ownership. This role offers hands-on leadership in a fast-paced, ambiguity-tolerant environment focused on safe, scalable autonomous driving tech.

• hybrid working
• learning and development budgets
• relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
• comprehensive benefits including health/dental and pension
• meaningful equity
• core hours and hands-on in vehicle workshops and labs

• Lead and develop engineers: set expectations, provide feedback, manage performance and career growth
• Own hiring and onboarding; build skills for future programmes across locations
• Set team mission, ownership boundaries and roadmap; balance delivery with future improvements
• Plan and execute new vehicle integrations from bench to bring-up, validation and handover
• Own vehicle-facing software, guiding architecture and robust interfaces for hardware interaction
• Improve reliability and release quality; establish measurable targets and field-informed improvements
• Develop playbooks, tooling, and knowledge-transfer practices to enable repeatable vehicle commissioning
• Drive technical collaboration with software, hardware, controls, safety and operations teams; align with customers and suppliers

• Strong track record of leading software or systems engineering teams (coaching, hiring, performance management)
• Owned team roadmap; delivered complex programmes through others; managed priorities and risks
• Experience developing/integrating embedded or robotics software in physical products
• Guide architectural decisions and review software-hardware interfaces for maintainability and reuse
• Understanding of hardware/software platform bring-up, testing, validation and handover
• Ownership mindset for reliability and quality; use real-world metrics to drive improvements
• Clear communication; align multiple teams around shared technical outcomes
• Desirable experience with automotive systems, drive-by-wire, CAN or automotive Ethernet, vehicle controls, or bench/HIL testing

• clear communication
• leadership
• collaboration across locations
• embedded/robotics software
• vehicle interfacing software
• drive-by-wire