Software Product Manager (Automotive/Robotics)

TL;DR

Software Product Manager (Automotive/Robotics): Owning the long-term vision and roadmap for the KAN-DO platform, driving its evolution into a unified engineering platform. Focus on shaping strategy across distributed systems, robotics middleware, and real-time automotive communication layers, translating complex requirements into platform features.

Company

hirify.global is a company developing the KAN-DO platform, focusing on distributed systems, robotics, and real-time automotive communication.

What you will do

• Own the long-term vision and roadmap for the KAN-DO platform, shaping strategy across distributed systems, robotics middleware, and automotive communication layers.
• Drive KAN-DO from a connectivity layer into a unified engineering platform.
• Translate complex engineering requirements into structured, prioritized platform features, supporting architectural decisions.
• Enable seamless connectivity and robust mechanisms across physical and virtual systems (simulators, HiL rigs, robotics, compute hardware).
• Own platform reliability, lifecycle, and governance, establishing versioning, dependency management, and quality standards.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and development of junior team members, contributing to engineering culture.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of distributed computer systems and real-time systems (RTOS).
• Knowledge of robotics middleware (ROS2, DDS, LCM, ZeroMQ, gRPC) and automotive comms (CAN/CAN-FD, SOME/IP, TSN Ethernet).
• Familiarity with simulation frameworks (HIL, SIL, MIL, FMI/FMU) and C++ constraints on embedded platforms.
• Experience owning a technical platform end-to-end and managing cross-functional engineering teams.
• Skilled in prioritizing complex, deeply technical backlogs.
• Domain experience in Automotive software/simulation, Robotics/autonomy, Distributed systems engineering, or Real-time control systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-site distributed test environments.
• Exposure to digital twin or virtual development toolchains.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity considerations for high-availability systems.