Ubuntu Silicon Systems Engineer – Remote, Open Source

Canonical Ltd.; Zürich; Remote; CHF 108,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget USD 2000/yr

Annual compensation review

Travel opportunities

Wellness platform

Job summary

Canonical is seeking open-source enthusiasts to join our Partner Engineering Team to optimize Ubuntu for new silicon technologies across platforms. The role is globally remote, with collaboration across distributed teams and interfaces with upstream projects, customers, and internal groups to ensure high-quality software.

You will work on silicon enablement, AI stacks, and secure boot concerns, while contributing to the Ubuntu ecosystem and packaging workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in C, C++ and Python.
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject.
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• Experience or interest in learning Linux packaging.
• Experience or Interest in open source maintenance or contribution and licenses.
• Fundamental understanding of package management and dependency resolution.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating proactively within a distributed team.
• Fostering a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users.
• Evaluating contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards.
• Shaping the future of Ubuntu through new ideas and advising on related work.
• Collaborating with Ubuntu, Debian communities, upstream projects, and customers.
• Debugging issues on open source code and team-maintained code.
• Help customers integrate apps, SDKs, build OS images, optimize apps with Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server.
• Maintain Ubuntu, silicon features, and silicon-optimized packages across platforms and technologies.

Skills

C

C++

Python

Linux packaging

Open source

Team collaboration

Education

Undergraduate degree in a technical subject

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OCI

Job description

Canonical is seeking open-source enthusiasts to join our Partner Engineering Team to optimize Ubuntu for new silicon technologies across platforms. The role is globally remote, with collaboration across distributed teams and interfaces with upstream projects, customers, and internal groups to ensure high-quality software.

You will work on silicon enablement, AI stacks, and secure boot concerns, while contributing to the Ubuntu ecosystem and packaging workflows.