Embedded Engineering Manager - Robotics & Drones - Aptiv

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.

• 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.

• Embedded systems architecture and platform software.
• Sensor integration and data acquisition (cameras, lidar, radar, depth sensors, IMUs, and related technologies).