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# Engineering Manager, Software & Controls

- **Company:** Avular
- **Location:** Eindhoven, Netherlands
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Continuous Integration, Release Management, Software Engineering
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.avular.com/careers/engineering-manager-software-and-controls

## About the Role

* Strong background in software engineering and/or controls
 * Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams
 * Strong people management, coaching and performance management skills
 * Experience improving engineering ways of working, standards and tooling
 * Able to safeguard engineering quality across multiple projects and teams
 * Comfortable balancing capability and capacity needs in a matrix organisation
 * Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, * Grow & Shine: Bring your vision and grow your career in a fast-paced, high-tech environment.

## Description

At Avular, we build mobile robotic solutions that operate in the real world. To strengthen our engineering organisation, we are looking for an Engineering Manager, Software & Controls, to lead and develop our Software & Controls engineers., As Engineering Manager, Software & Controls, you are responsible for the people, capabilities, capacity and engineering quality within the discipline.

 * You lead, coach and develop engineers, own performance management, and act as hiring manager for new team members. You ensure the right capabilities and capacity are available for our development projects and support engineers in their professional growth.
 * You continuously improve our software and controls engineering ways of working, standards and tooling, including coding practices, testing, CI/CD, release management, deployment and peer-review processes.
 * You safeguard engineering quality across the discipline by ensuring these practices are consistently applied by the team.
 * Our engineers work in multidisciplinary project teams, where technical decisions and day-to-day delivery are owned within the project organisation.
 * You ensure they enter those projects with the right skills, standards, support and engineering environment to deliver high-quality work., Your data will be stored securely and retained only for as long as necessary to evaluate your application or comply with legal obligations. You can request access to, correction, or deletion of your data at any time by contacting recruitment@avular.com.