Senior Manager, Software Engineering - L4 Autonomous Driving

VW. Two letters. Endless opportunities. A bright future. 

Innovation. Sophistication. Optimization. This is our Passion.

Worldwide, the Volkswagen Group has a long tradition of dramatic innovations. The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. The Group comprises twelve brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania and MAN. Here in the US, we are blending German engineering with American ingenuity.

As ADMT, we develop and realize fully autonomous mobility and transportation services. Our mission is to make mobility-and transportation-as-a-service safe, accessible and most attractive for society. For that, we cover the entire ground from strategy and business development, software development and end-2-end integration, fleet operations to next-generation self-driving systems. Being the driver in Volkswagen Group initiative for mobility solutions, we are an integral part of Volkswagen Group's future success.

Role Summary

The ADMT LLC has awesome teams distributed across the US and Europe. As the Sr Mgr, Software Engineering, you will be responsible for the technical teams, including building up new teams and structures. You support the teams in finding the right balance between technical excellence, maintaining a high customer focus and reliably deliver product increments. The role includes technical leadership as well as people management.

The engineering teams use modern languages (e.g., Kotlin, TypeScript) in combination with cloud services (e.g., AWS DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, RDS and Kubernetes) and are responsible for the discovery of what product increment to deliver next, as well as the full software lifecycle, including testing and operating the services (“you build it, you run it”).

Role Responsibilities

Fleet Management System and ADMT Cloud development

·         Build, form and lead some world-class teams and their engineering managers in a servant leadership style

·         Taking an active role in shaping and developing the tech architecture and culture

·         Collaborate proactively with multiple (distributed) teams (US & Europe) 

·         Influence the product roadmap for the ADMT US offer

·         Deliver SW products, microservices, architectures for the US Go to market for ADMT for MaaS and TaaS offers.

·         Translate business and product