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# Senior Engineering Manager at Sonatus

- **Company:** Sonatus
- **Location:** Dublin, Ireland
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonatus/jobs/5191320007

## Job description

At Sonatus, we’re driving the transformation to AI-enabled software-defined vehicles. Traditional automotive software methods can’t keep pace with consumer expectations shaped by the mobile industry—where features evolve rapidly, update seamlessly, and improve continuously. That’s why leading OEMs trust Sonatus to accelerate this shift. Our technology is already in production across more than 8 million vehicles on the road today and rapidly expanding.

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, with 250+ employees worldwide, Sonatus combines the agility of a fast-growing company with the scale and impact of an established partner. Backed by strong funding and proven by global deployment, we’re solving some of the most interesting and complex challenges in the industry. Join us and help redefine what’s possible as we shape the future of mobility.

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.

We would encourage candidates with experience in other highly reliable embedded environments such as industrial automation, robotics, medical devices, telecommunications, aerospace or IoT to apply.

Key Responsibilities:

- 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.

Requirements:

- 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.

## About Sonatus

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sonatus delivers an AI-powered software platform for software-defined vehicles, enabling OEMs and suppliers to reduce costs, accelerate time-to-market, and continuously improve vehicles across their lifecycle.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Jeff Chou (CEO) and Yu Fang (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Automotive software, artificial intelligence, software-defined vehicles (SDVs)
- **Target customers**: Global automakers (OEMs) and Tier 1 suppliers (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To simplify and accelerate the digital transformation of the automobile by building AI-native software that spans the full vehicle lifecycle.

## Products & Services
- **Sonatus Foundation**: A flexible vehicle software architecture that provides the foundational platform for building and evolving software-defined vehicles.
- **Sonatus Collector AI**: Enables dynamic, intelligent data collection from vehicles to drive continuous improvements and insights.
- **Sonatus AI Director**: An end-to-end toolchain for developing, deploying, and monitoring in-vehicle edge AI models.
- **Sonatus AI Technician**: AI-powered diagnostic assistants that support pre-production testing through post-sales services.
- **Sonatus Updater**: Secure, predictable management of vehicle software updates with end-to-end traceability.
- **Sonatus Automator AI**: A no-code solution for accelerating time-to-market and enabling rapid innovation.

*All products are software/SaaS or platform-based, delivered as a combination of in-vehicle software and cloud services.*

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Technology deployed in **over 8 million vehicles** globally (as of 2025/2026) – [sonatus.com](https://www.sonatus.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by investors in the automotive, semiconductor, and venture capital sectors (specific names not publicly named on the website); partners with leading global automakers and Tier 1 suppliers.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid expansion with offices in 12+ countries (USA, Canada, Ireland, France, Germany, Poland, India, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines); ~300 employees (Built In); actively hiring across engineering, AI, and customer success roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native from the ground up**: Unlike legacy automotive software providers, Sonatus built its platform specifically for AI-defined vehicles, enabling deeper integration and better performance.
- **Proven scale and trust**: Already deployed in millions of production vehicles from top global OEMs, demonstrating reliability and safety in real-world conditions.
- **Full lifecycle coverage**: Spans pre-production testing, production, and post-sales services – a rare end-to-end offering.
- **Agile integration**: Collaborates closely with OEMs and Tier 1s, using agile methods that complement traditional automotive development processes.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand AI capabilities**: Continuing to develop agentic AI, data analytics, and automation tools for the vehicle edge and cloud.
- **New revenue streams**: Helping automakers unlock value-added services and business models based on vehicle data.
- **Global scaling**: Deepening presence in key automotive markets (Europe, Asia, North America) while hiring top AI and engineering talent worldwide.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven challenges**: Employees work on cutting-edge AI and automotive problems that directly impact the future of mobility.
- **Hybrid work model**: Offices in Sunnyvale, Dublin, Paris, Seoul, and more; hybrid policy typically requires 3 days in-office per week, with some roles fully remote.
- **Collaborative culture**: Described as "talented and diverse" with specialists from automotive, data centers, semiconductors, and enterprise software.
- **Growth opportunity**: Well-funded and rapidly growing company with a proven product in production, offering the stability of a mature startup with the excitement of scaling.
- **Global presence**: Multiple office hubs and remote-friendly roles across North America, Europe, and Asia provide flexibility.

## Sources
1. [Sonatus Official Website – About](https://www.sonatus.com/company/)
2. [Sonatus Official Website – Products](https://www.sonatus.com/)
3. [Sonatus Careers Page (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonatus)
4. [Sonatus Careers Page – Locations](https://www.sonatus.com/company/careers/)
5. [Built In Profile – Sonatus](https://builtin.com/company/sonatus)

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