Senior Software Engineer - Automotive Business

By creating bearings and solutions for everything from industrial applications to vehicles, SKF plays an essential role in our everyday lives. In Q4 2026, SKF intends to spin off its Automotive business and list it as a separate company under the name of SKF Vertevo. A company created to support the future of the automotive market, and to co-drive the future of mobility faster.

This role will be a part of that new company. Would you like to join us, and move people further?

Senior Software Engineer

• SKF Automotive Business

Are you passionate about redefining how digital tools, engineering workflows, and software systems are created? Do you want to push the boundaries of what software engineering looks like in an AI first world? Join our team.

We are building a new global Digital Engineering organization from the ground up - in this role, you will be at the core of transforming how our development organization builds software, enabling a future where much of the code is generated, orchestrated, or automated - not written manually.

In this role, you will apply your deep software engineering experience to redefine how we build and operate software at scale - covering architecture, automated testing, continuous delivery, and runtime operations. You will leverage agentic engineering (AI) to our workflows, enabling efficient development, faster releases, improved software quality.

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical implementation of software solutions, from architecture to deployment.
• Rapidly develop and deliver next-generation engineering tools using agentic engineering (AI).
• Own, build, and improve digital engineering applications to enable the engineering community to move faster with higher quality.
• Define and implement software engineering best practices
• Collaborate Across Engineering Disciplines to understand their needs and to translate them into digital solutions.
• Act as a technical role model and sparring partner for colleagues who want to leverage modern software and AI capabilities in their daily work.
• Keep track of trends, drive experiments with new development methodologies and practices, and help scale those that prove valuable.

We expect you to have

• Master’s degree in computer science, or equivalent experience gained through work and extensive years of experience.
• Proven track record of developing software products from concept to production, with a few years in a lead or senior role.
• Experience and strong interest in agentic engineering, AI and machine learning development, including integrating AI/ML models into production systems.
• Excellent communication skills in English and a collaborative, can-do mindset.
• Practical experience with modern cloud platforms, APIs, data pipelines and CI/CD setups.
• Solid programming skills and hands-on experience with modern programming languages. Our current stack includes Python, C++, TypeScript.
• Demonstrated habit of running own side projects or private initiatives exploring new software technologies, tools or methodologies.
• Ability to move fast, work with ambiguity, and take ownership from problem to solution.

Why join us?

• Be part of a small, newly formed Digital Engineering team with a clear mandate to challenge how we work and to drive transformation globally.
• High degree of autonomy and opportunity to influence our technical direction, standards and tool landscape.
• Close collaboration with engineering, R&D and IT across the Automotive Business.
• The chance to design and implement digital tools that are used daily by engineers and developers around the world.
• An environment that encourages experimentation, learning and sharing of new ideas.
• Global collaboration and exposure to diverse cultures and perspectives.
• Hybrid ways of working, with flexibility to work both onsite and remotely.

If you want to go further

This position will be located on our SKF Automotive site in Gothenburg, Sweden.

You will report to Erik Lorentzon, Digital Engineering Manager, who is located in Gothenburg.

Apply with your CV in English throughout the system, no later than August 28, 2026.

Transparency and fairness matter to us

At SKF, we see diversity in our workforce as an asset that supports better business results. We are committed to having a fair and inclusive recruitment process where all hiring decisions are based on objective, job-related criteria, ensuring equal opportunities for all candidates.

To support a fair and transparent recruitment process, the process may include assessments, and before hiring, we may also carry out background checks and verify application information. We will discuss your salary expectations during the first interview, and our final offer will be based on an objective evaluation of your experience, skills, and potential, aligned with the scope of the role and our internal salary guidelines. Our recruitment process may differ from country to country and will always be in line with applicable country-specific laws and regulations.

Come as you are – just be yourself. #weareSKF