Senior Engineering Manager, Sonatus
Vehicle Application Software
Cloud-based solutions for software-defined vehicles
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Cloud-based solutions for software-defined vehicles
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate automotive innovation.
Role
Who you are
- Degree (BS, MS, or PhD) in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- 8+ years in embedded software development, including technical leadership and architectural design
- 3+ years of engineering management experience with direct reports
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate complex development trade-offs clearly to Product, Hardware, and QA teams
- Experience delivering commercial software products for mission-critical, internet-connected devices
- Deep experience building embedded systems, modern C++, inter-process communication
- Experience with embedded operating systems (Linux, Android, QNX) and HIL testing
- Experience implementing communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet, HTTP, MQTT)
- Familiarity with automotive standards (e.g., AUTOSAR Adaptive, UDS) is a plus
What the job involves
- You will lead an engineering team responsible for in-vehicle middleware and platform services for the Sonatus Fastlane Collector and Copilot products, with a focus on people management, process, architecture, and code reviews
- This is an opportunity for an engineering leader who enjoys growing people, improving engineering systems and guiding technical direction in a complex embedded software environment
- Manage, mentor, and grow an embedded software development team
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative culture focused on technical excellence, continuous learning and ownership
- Drive the planning and delivery of software for Fastlane products on embedded Linux and High-Performance Compute (HPC) platforms
- Provide architectural oversight through system design and code reviews, ensuring the software meets high-availability, low-latency, and fault-tolerance requirements for vehicle telemetry
- Align agile development practices with automotive reliability standards (e.g., MISRA)
- Define hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing strategies and resolve integration bottlenecks in partnership with Hardware Engineering and QA
- Improve developer workflows in collaboration with the internal tools team
- Integrate LLM/agentic tooling into the engineering environment to increase development velocity while maintaining code quality
Our take
Software-defined vehicles represent the biggest innovation in automobiles for decades, but there are large obstacles in the way of their growth. The software that defines such vehicles requires over-the-air (OTA) updates and other forms of maintenance, which can quickly become a time-consuming and resource-intensive process.
Sonatus develops cloud-based solutions for software-defined vehicles, providing a platform called Digital Dynamics that empowers automakers to harness vehicle data, add feature updates, diagnose problems, and maintain vehicle infrastructure wirelessly and in real time. The company achieves its flexibility through cloud-empowered data infrastructure, no-code software solutions, and working closely with clients.
Whilst the company faces competition from other IoT vehicle software companies, Sonatus shows great potential to compete through its all-in-one approach. This has earned it impressive funding, which supports further development and the increase of production volume, as well as the company's expansion into the Japanese market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2022
$75m
SERIES A
Jul 2021
$35m
SERIES A
Total funding: $110m
Company benefits
- Stock option program
- Flexible working arrangements
- Unlimited PTO
- Comprehensive benefits with generous allowance
- Free in-office food & snacks!
Company HQ
Sunnyvale, CA
Leadership
Jeffrey Chou
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Senior Director of Engineering for Nuova Systems. Founder of Diamanti, where they were CEO and now serve as a Board Member.
Yu Fang
(Co-Founder & CTO/CPO)Head of Mobile Engineering for NAUTO from 2016 to 2018. Experience as CTO of CARDFREE.
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