Technical Program Manager (Software Defined Vehicle- Automotive)
Remote
Full Time
Experienced
Summary
The Eclipse Foundation is one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, with a proven track record of enabling community-led and industry-ready open source innovation earned over more than two decades. The Foundation is the home of numerous industry-leading projects and collaborations including Adoptium, Software Defined Vehicle, Eclipse IDE, IOT and Jakarta EE. Supported by over 385 members globally, the Foundation has an established international reach and reputation.
The Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Working Group is dedicated to developing new and innovative software platforms for the world’s automotive industry. The SDV initiative has the support of leading companies across the automotive, IT, cloud, silicon, and services industries, all of which are necessary to create the platform and ecosystem that will drive innovation for the next generation of mobility solutions. Members of the SDV working group include Accenture, AVL, Bosch, BMW, Capgemini, Cariad, Continental Automotive, ETAS, Futurewei Technologies, Microsoft, Red Hat, Reycom, Mercedes and ZF among others.
The Technical Program Manager is pivotal in facilitating and coordinating the SDV community’s efforts to develop an automotive-grade Core Full-Stack implementation based on open source projects. The software stack must meet high-quality standards to achieve certifiability under the ISO 26262 standard. The Technical Program Manager is responsible for facilitating the adoption of modern toolchains to enhance documentation, ensure requirement traceability, streamline testing, and enable efficient continuous integration and deployment processes.
This effort is key to achieving the vision of the Eclipse SDV Working Group to develop an open technology platform for the software defined vehicle of the future.
If you are curious and are looking for an opportunity to shape the future of open source in the automotive industry, this is the job for you! Excited? You should be — in this role, you'll collaborate directly with a vibrant, fast-growing community of senior software engineers and architects from over 50 of the world’s leading automotive and technology companies. Together, you'll drive groundbreaking advancements in open source software, the connected vehicles of tomorrow.
The Role
The Technical Program Manager liaises with several initiatives in the SDV Working Group ecosystem, facilitating communication and collaboration. The candidate is able to grasp and synthesise the community needs to develop an in-vehicle- and off-vehicle-ready platform, based on a set of components, and the open source projects available.
Hence, the Technical Program Manager has a deep technical knowledge and understanding of the building blocks that can be developed in a non-differentiating, pre-competitive environment such as middleware, abstraction layers, and communication protocols.
Responsibilities
Education
Desired Skills and Experience
Location
We offer highly competitive compensation along with a comprehensive benefits package. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those to be interviewed will be contacted. For more information about Eclipse Foundation, please visit our website at https://eclipse.org/
Eclipse respects the dignity and independence of people with disabilities and is committed to providing accommodation and support to persons with disabilities throughout any recruitment process, once made aware of a need for accommodation. If you require any special accommodation or support during the recruitment process, please indicate in your email to us.
The Eclipse Foundation is one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, with a proven track record of enabling community-led and industry-ready open source innovation earned over more than two decades. The Foundation is the home of numerous industry-leading projects and collaborations including Adoptium, Software Defined Vehicle, Eclipse IDE, IOT and Jakarta EE. Supported by over 385 members globally, the Foundation has an established international reach and reputation.
The Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Working Group is dedicated to developing new and innovative software platforms for the world’s automotive industry. The SDV initiative has the support of leading companies across the automotive, IT, cloud, silicon, and services industries, all of which are necessary to create the platform and ecosystem that will drive innovation for the next generation of mobility solutions. Members of the SDV working group include Accenture, AVL, Bosch, BMW, Capgemini, Cariad, Continental Automotive, ETAS, Futurewei Technologies, Microsoft, Red Hat, Reycom, Mercedes and ZF among others.
The Technical Program Manager is pivotal in facilitating and coordinating the SDV community’s efforts to develop an automotive-grade Core Full-Stack implementation based on open source projects. The software stack must meet high-quality standards to achieve certifiability under the ISO 26262 standard. The Technical Program Manager is responsible for facilitating the adoption of modern toolchains to enhance documentation, ensure requirement traceability, streamline testing, and enable efficient continuous integration and deployment processes.
This effort is key to achieving the vision of the Eclipse SDV Working Group to develop an open technology platform for the software defined vehicle of the future.
If you are curious and are looking for an opportunity to shape the future of open source in the automotive industry, this is the job for you! Excited? You should be — in this role, you'll collaborate directly with a vibrant, fast-growing community of senior software engineers and architects from over 50 of the world’s leading automotive and technology companies. Together, you'll drive groundbreaking advancements in open source software, the connected vehicles of tomorrow.
The Role
The Technical Program Manager liaises with several initiatives in the SDV Working Group ecosystem, facilitating communication and collaboration. The candidate is able to grasp and synthesise the community needs to develop an in-vehicle- and off-vehicle-ready platform, based on a set of components, and the open source projects available.
Hence, the Technical Program Manager has a deep technical knowledge and understanding of the building blocks that can be developed in a non-differentiating, pre-competitive environment such as middleware, abstraction layers, and communication protocols.
Responsibilities
- Serves as the primary technical liaison between open source projects, special interest groups and governing bodies of the SDV working group.
- Facilitates and supports the community in developing a vendor-neutral architecture for a non-differentiating SDV core stack.
- Works closely with the Process Engineer to support the community in the adoption and improvement of the Eclipse Functional Safety process.
- Works with the supporting teams at the Eclipse Foundation to establish a toolchain that supports the software development according to the process.
- Facilitates and supports the definition of the needed open source building blocks and the interfaces.
- Works with open source project teams to align on roadmaps and interfaces.
- Acts as interface between the SDV working group and other initiatives (e.g. SDV Alliance, EU projects).
Education
- MS degree in Computer Science, Automotive Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent qualification.
Desired Skills and Experience
- >5 years of experience in an architect or technical program manager role in the automotive domain.
- Prior experience with open source projects, particularly as a committer, or at least Contributor to one or more Eclipse projects.
- Deep technical knowledge of SDV software stack, particularly in the middleware domain.
- Proven experience managing software development and with the CI/CD toolchain.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Professional level proficiency in English (mandatory) and German (nice to have).
- Knowledge of Automotive SPICE process and ISO 26262 is a plus.
Location
- Remote - preferably in EU.
We offer highly competitive compensation along with a comprehensive benefits package. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those to be interviewed will be contacted. For more information about Eclipse Foundation, please visit our website at https://eclipse.org/
Eclipse respects the dignity and independence of people with disabilities and is committed to providing accommodation and support to persons with disabilities throughout any recruitment process, once made aware of a need for accommodation. If you require any special accommodation or support during the recruitment process, please indicate in your email to us.
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