MBition and Mercedes–Benz bring the automotive industry into the future! How? We are working on the next generation of in-vehicle infotainment systems and user interfaces for Mercedes-Benz cars. Embracing the Open Source ecosystem and building on top of an Open Source foundation is an essential strategy for us to achieve this goal.

We work in Berlin and Sindelfingen as a 100% subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz AG, which has been perfecting the art of moving people, products and services from A to B for more than 120 years. With an international team of 500 employees, we want to integrate people who appreciate quality, creativity and teamwork just as much as we do. Together we create technology with a passion on exciting topics like automated and autonomous driving, infotainment systems or mobile applications. And we need YOU to help us shape the future!

About the role

In particular, MBition aims to be a good citizen of the Open Source ecosystem. This means participating in upstream Open Source development, engaging with the community from a technical and governance perspective, creating software products that combine Open Source and proprietary functionality and strictly being license compliant in the process. MBition's Open Source Team supports our developers and guides its partners in achieving these goals. As part of the Open Source Team, your responsibilities will be to:

• Support the software engineering teams in consuming Open Source technologies, building upon them both upstream and in-house, integrating them into MBition's products and shipping them to customers. In particular this means assisting with upstream contributions, determining the appropriate modes of collaboration, and ensuring best practices along the way.
• Ensure license compliance, full documentation of the copyright and patent assets embedded in the product as well as fulfillment of all Open Source license obligations integrated in a continuous delivery process. We closely work with the legal and DevOps teams towards this goal.
• Help the organization embrace an open collaboration culture that facilitates innovation. We mentor team members and provide training to developers, reviewers and non-technical staff on engineering and collaboration techniques.
• Interact with the wider Open Source community to establish a network of collaborators and engage with innovation drivers. MBition aims to support and facilitate upstream communities that develop functionality significant to our products.
• Last but not least, the Open Source Team helps to shape the whole organization adopt open innovation, remote work and to adopt and foster community spirit. This is why Open Source community experience is an important expectation towards any candidate.

You will work as part of the Open Source Team under the lead of highly experienced Open Source contributors and in close cooperation with legal, procurement and business experts. You will primarily work in an engineering role applying license compliance and Open Source domain knowledge.