Per Sigurdson
Per Sigurdson has been CEO and co-founder of RemotiveLabs since September 2021. He leads the company's work to make automotive development feel like modern software engineering, so teams can build and test vehicle software against a fully virtual E/E architecture long before hardware exists. He has more than 20 years of experience in software development and new product creation.
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Per at RemotiveLabs
Car makers rarely find the expensive bugs inside a single ECU. They find them in the gaps between suppliers, signal versions and teams. Per leads RemotiveLabs to close those gaps with Vehicle-as-Code and RemotiveTopology, which turn the E/E architecture into something teams can version, run and test from day one.
Under his leadership, RemotiveLabs has built partnerships with Google Cloud, Arm, Kvaser and Macnica. RemotiveLabs is part of the digital cockpit reference solution in Arm Total Design for Physical AI, alongside AWS, Google, HERE and Siemens. The company has grown to teams in Malmö, Munich and Taipei, and in 2026 it was ranked in the Sifted 100: Nordics and named a top 50 finalist in the European Startup Prize for Mobility.
Per writes on LinkedIn about how automotive engineering and software engineering meet. His articles include The V-model has no time axis and Why it's easier to learn to bend metal than to write software. He hosts the RemotiveTalks on the RemotiveLabs blog, with guests such as Michael Fait (Thoughtworks) on the automotive test pyramid and Florian Rohde (iProcess) on virtual ECUs.
He speaks regularly at industry events, including Bosch ConnectedWorld, VECS and ELIV in Baden-Baden. He is also a co-author of the 360° Continuous Lifecycle Engineering whitepaper with Kaizenics, Bosch Engineering, AVL, HPE and digital.auto.
Background and related experience
Before RemotiveLabs, Per was Development Leader for IKEA Home Smart at Inter IKEA Group. He also served as an alternate board member of the Connectivity Standards Alliance, the organization behind smart home standards such as Matter and Zigbee. Before that, he spent ten years at Jayway as digital strategist and business development manager, including time in Palo Alto. Per studied at Linköping University. He is a board member of Gleerups Utbildning, and he gave the TEDxFolketspark talk How technological advancements continue changing the world.