Senior Ubuntu Embedded IoT System Engineer
Canonical
Australia, Canada, Germany, India, United Kingdom +1 moreremotePosted 17 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Remote role in EMEA region
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Travel opportunities for team sprints and company events
- Founder-led, profitable, and growing company
- Equal opportunity employer with a focus on diversity
Role overview
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, with Ubuntu widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, and IoT. The company operates as a global distributed team with minimal office-based roles. The OEM Delivery Team collaborates with tier-one OEM, IHV, and ODM customers to pre-load Ubuntu on hardware for millions of users. This role involves working with top silicon and hardware partners to optimize Ubuntu on next-generation chips and ensure seamless functionality on partner hardware across various industries like Robotics, Automotive, and Medical devices. The position requires deep Linux and hardware expertise in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide software and system engineering services for OEM and ODM customers
- Work closely with partners on platform bring up
- Work with project managers and Field/QA engineers to identify, triage, and fix critical problems
- Work with individual upstream projects to find and apply patches for bugs
- Conduct root cause analysis, collect and organize details to reproduce and explain results
- Facilitate communication between Ubuntu, firmware and hardware engineering teams
- Occasional international travel to the EU, USA, Taiwan and China
Requirements
- A Bachelor or higher degree in STEM, preferably Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Familiar with C, Python and Bash
- Familiar with linux boot up process
- Linux kernel, boot and system-level architecture skills
- Experience of bootloader development, such as u-boot
- Software development on Arm or non-X86 platforms
- Linux debugging and resolution abilities
- Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team
- Ability to learn fast to work on cutting edge technologies
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long
- Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region
Nice to have
- Experience with system firmware, including uboot, UEFI, ACPI, DSDT, boot loaders, device firmware
- Experience debugging power management on PCI ASPM, SATA ALPM, low power profiles
- Experience in board design, bring up, and validation
- Experience with electrical engineering design tools (e.g. schematic capture, layout)
- Computer architecture knowledge of x86, ARM, RISC-V
- Familiarity with Ubuntu development model
- Shell/Python scripting skills
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Additional details
- Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.
- We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.
- Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance.
- The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.