SW Technical Project Manager

Saab Sensor Technology Center in Tampere is part of Surveillance organization unit at Saab. The R&D teams are developing extremely versatile and innovative electronic warfare systems, motivated by a clear target: to keep people safe. As an example of a brilliant product that we are developing in Tampere, check out* Sirius Compact*!

We have an excellent, constantly expanding software development team of both experienced professionals and growing juniors. Backlog is full for years to come, and we are eagerly looking for new colleagues to join us and help us make some awesome high-tech stuff!

Your role

We are seeking an experienced Embedded Software Technical Project Manager to lead embedded SW and FPGA projects in delivering high-quality embedded solutions. In this role, you will bridge technical execution with organized planning – ensuring clear targets and schedules, disciplined development, and smooth collaboration across engineering, product, and quality teams. This role can be somewhat tailored based on your expertise and career ambitions – project management tasks can be appended with hands-on SW development, SW architect, or people management responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of embedded software and firmware for both internal projects and for customers

• Work closely with hardware, RF, systems, and QA teams to define project scope, milestones, and resource needs

• Manage schedules, risks, and dependencies; drive issue resolution

• Translate technical details and status into clear plans and communication for stakeholders

• Ensure best practices are used in embedded software development. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, reliability, and delivery excellence

• Facilitate design reviews, release planning, backlog refining, and cross-team alignment with development leads

• Support budgeting, resourcing, and external partner collaboration when required

This role requires fluent communication in English. Finnish is preferred but not mandatory.

In this job, some of your tasks have a connection to defense secrecy. Therefore, a drug test and approved security clearance in accordance with the Finnish Security Clearance act 726/2014 is required for the selected applicant.

Your profile

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

• 5+ years of experience in embedded software development

• 2+ years of experience in technical project management or engineering leadership with demonstrated success in managing complex engineering work

• Strong understanding of embedded systems architecture, hardware – software integration, ensuring software quality

• Proficiency with agile SW project management methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)

• Excellent communication and coordination skills

• Ability to read technical documentation and contribute to engineering discussions

Nice to Have

• Experience in safety-critical products or regulated environments

• People management or SW architect or other complementary experience

We appreciate if you accompany your application with a motivation letter, giving us an insight on what you can do, would like to do and learn, and which kind of role and responsibilities would be your perfect match.

What you will be part of?

Our development projects offer a wide range of interesting opportunities to grow and challenge yourself within different phases in product development cycle, from specification through development to laboratory and qualification testing. In addition to interesting projects and learning by doing, Saab offers various trainings and learning paths to help you build your competence and career.

Your work place will be at Saab Sensor Technology Center in Tampere downtown in newly renovated premises, and majority of the daily work is done at the office premises.

On top of joining a team of highly talented professionals and fun people, we offer you a good benefit package, including full lunch benefit, exercise & culture benefit, transport related options, share matching plan and many more. We also highly value work-life balance and offer flexible working hours.

We would be happy to welcome you to our team soon, but we’re flexible with the start date – let us know when you would be available to begin your Saab journey!

Interested?

Take your chance to build your future career at Saab by submitting your CV and application via Saab Careers already now!