Embedded Engineering Manager - Robotics & Drones
The Embedded Engineering Manager will lead teams developing hardware and software for autonomous mobile robots and drones, focusing on embedded systems, perception, and system integration. This role involves defining technical roadmaps, managing engineering talent, and ensuring the delivery of scalable, production-ready robotics solutions.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Troy, MI - USA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Embedded
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience developing embedded systems for robotics, automotive, consumer electronics, or related products.
- 3+ years of engineering leadership and people management experience leading systems and software development teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with robotics software frameworks and middleware, including ROS and ROS 2.
- Familiarity with modern software development methodologies, including Agile, CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps practices.
- Working knowledge of perception, sensor processing, computer vision, and machine learning technologies used in autonomous systems.
- Experience deploying and managing ML-based perception systems in production environments.
- Experience optimizing software and ML inference workloads on embedded compute platforms, GPUs, NPUs, DSPs, or other hardware accelerators.
- Experience with system architecture, systems engineering, requirements analysis, and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
- Familiarity with industry standards and processes such as Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262, functional safety, and robotics safety-critical system development.
- Experience with cybersecurity principles and secure embedded system design.
- Familiarity with microprocessor- and DSP-based hardware architectures, embedded software platforms, and hardware/software integration.
- Experience with embedded communication interfaces and protocols.
- Experience with requirements management processes and tools such as Polarion, DOORS, or equivalent platforms.
- Experience working in startup, incubation, or high-growth environments.
Full description
Embedded Engineering Manager - Robotics & Drones
We are Aptiv - a global technology company with 200,000 specialists in 48 countries. We develop innovative software and build the hardware to bring autonomous driving cars, advanced driver-assistance systems, connected vehicles and smart cities to life in a way that only we can. We work in partnership with almost all car manufacturers. Our sensors, systems and software can already be found in almost all passenger cars today.
Aptiv is building a new Robotics business focused on Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) and Drones for warehouse, industrial, and adjacent markets. A core differentiator of these systems is robust, reliable, and scalable perception across diverse environments and customer use cases.
We are seeking an Embedded Engineering Manager to lead teams responsible for the development of robotics and drone hardware and software systems. In this role, you will define and execute technology and product roadmaps spanning embedded systems, software platforms, autonomy, and machine learning-based perception, while building and leading high-performing engineering teams.
You will balance strong technical leadership with people management, driving the delivery of reliable, scalable, and production-ready robotics and drone solutions. Working closely with autonomy, localization, safety, hardware, data, and product teams, you will ensure system capabilities meet performance, safety, and commercial objectives. You will also help transform early-stage concepts and proofs of concept into robust, data-driven products that can be deployed across multiple platforms, applications, and customer environments.
Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Own and drive the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for embedded systems and software across AMR and drone platforms.
- Provide technical leadership across sensing, compute platforms, data pipelines, perception algorithms, embedded software, and system integration.
- Collaborate with Product Managers and Technical Program Managers to shape product roadmaps, ensuring technical feasibility, realistic resource planning, and alignment with business objectives.
- Develop and maintain technology and competency roadmaps by monitoring industry trends, emerging technologies, and future product requirements.
- Serve as a technical thought leader for systems engineering, embedded software, robotics, autonomy, and perception technologies.
- Guide key technical trade-offs involving performance, latency, reliability, safety, compute resources, scalability, maintainability, and cost.
Systems, Software & Perception Engineering Leadership
- Lead engineering teams responsible for:
- Embedded systems architecture and platform software.