Robotics Engineering Manager

We are looking for an engineering manager with a passion for open source robotics to lead our dedicated team working on ROS and related open source stacks. Our goal is to enable secure robots with amazing developer experience, security, and operations at scale. We believe that Ubuntu can empower a new generation of roboticists to innovate and ship products that meet international requirements for safety, security and management.This role is about leading the development of Ubuntu as a robotics platform. You and your team of engineers will enable ROS developers to deliver high quality, secure robots, while enhancing the developer experience for robotics innovators around the world. You will lead your team in security and packaging contributions to the upstream ROS project, and represent Canonical and Ubuntu to the robotics community. You will work closely with the Robotics Product Manager to define and execute a vision and roadmap for robotics on Ubuntu.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 doWork with Product Management to define the vision and strategy for robotics on UbuntuDefine and execute an engineering roadmap for the Robotics team at CanonicalRepresent Ubuntu and Canonical in the upstream ROS project and broader robotics communityCoordinate, guide, and oversee the engineering work of your teamBuild and lead a globally distributed team of engineersDevelop skills through coaching, feedback and hands-on technical leadershipSet and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholdersAdvocate and advance modern, agile software development practicesHelp develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practicesGrow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company valuesWork from home with international travel twice a year, up to two weeks, for internal and external eventsWho you areYou have a strong software engineering, Linux, and open source backgroundYou have in-depth knowledge of C/C++ and Python programmingYou have practical experience in robotics, including ROS and related software componentsYou have experience leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developersYou have a track record of timely delivery and high quality softwareYou love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing itYou have experience working in an agile development environmentWe are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.#LI-REMOTE