Embedded Linux Field Engineer for Devices/IoT
Canonical
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile +21 moreremotePosted 17 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Travel up to 30% of the time for customer meetings, company events, and conferences
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- Most colleagues work remotely (since 2004)
- Professional working proficiency in local language required for Japan and Korea positions
- Equal opportunity employer with workplace free from discrimination
Role overview
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets, with Ubuntu widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company operates as a founder-led, profitable, distributed organization with 1000+ colleagues across 70+ countries and minimal office-based roles, emphasizing global distributed collaboration through twice-yearly in-person gatherings. The Embedded Linux Field Engineer role focuses on expanding Canonical's reach in mission-critical industries including Automotive, Medical Devices, Industrial Systems, Robotics, Telco, and Consumer Electronics, supporting Ubuntu Core for IoT and embedded devices through engaging customer-facing technical work.
Responsibilities
- Engage customers during presales to gather requirements and explain technology
- Elaborate solutions to be proposed to prospective clients
- Participate in delivery of select projects related to Embedded Linux
- Convey market requirements to key stakeholders and participate in development or refining of generic solutions to unlock market potential
- Be both a customer advocate and a trusted advisor to Canonical
- Know Linux well and be proficient coders and scripters
- Possess experience of low-level Linux boot, BIOS, EFI, Secure Boot, firmware, OS Distribution packaging and embedded software development methodologies
- Enjoy the pace of change and diversity of client engagements with driven and ambitious technology entrepreneurs
- Maintain competitive, business-focused technology mindset while being a dedicated team player who takes pride in team and company wins
- Work with minimal supervision while being trusted to ensure best outcomes for partners and customers regardless of company interests
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Extensive Linux experience - Debian or Ubuntu preferred
- Distribution / Packaging experience (deb, rpm, ...)
- Solid embedded Linux experience (Yocto, Buildroot...)
- Fluency in at least one of Golang, Python, C, C++, or Rust
- Professional written and spoken English in addition to the local language
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Result-oriented, ability to multi-task
- A personal drive to meet commitments
- An humble learner and quick study
- Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time for customer meetings, company events, and conferences
Nice to have
- Experience with customer engagements a plus, but not a requirement
- For positions in Japan and Korea, the successful candidates will also be able to speak and write the local language at a professional level
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
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 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
- Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004
- The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution
- The server edition of Ubuntu is already very widely used in connected devices and industrial PC's
- Our edition of Ubuntu tailored for IoT, called Ubuntu Core, represents the state of the art in security and resilience for high end appliances and equipment
- Canonical recently added a real-time Linux capability and is working towards a range of certifications for these offerings
- The company is founder led, profitable and growing
- We often say that our field engineers have 'the hardest job at Canonical' because customers can ask about any aspect of our solutions and products and expect a thoughtful, well-informed answer