Remote Linux Engineer for Next-Gen Silicon & AI Stacks

Canonical_managed_posts; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed work environment with team

Personal learning and development USD

Annual compensation review

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Team Member Assistance Program & 9

Job summary

Canonical is hiring for a role in Partner Engineering focused on open-source optimization across silicon technologies and Ubuntu stacks. The position emphasizes collaboration within a distributed team and contributing to a high-quality open-source ecosystem, spanning Ubuntu Core, Desktop, Server, and related tooling.

The role involves working with customers, upstream projects, and cross-functional teams to ensure silicon support, performance optimization, and robust packaging across

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path.
• Strong fundamentals in C, C++ and Python.
• Experience or interest in learning Linux distribution packaging.
• Experience or interest in open source maintenance or contribution and licenses.

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.
• Playing a role in shaping the future of Ubuntu via ideas and advising on work elsewhere.
• Collaborating with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers.
• Debugging issues on open source code and team maintained code.
• Helping customers to integrate their apps, SDKs, build OS images, optimize applications with Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server.
• Maintaining Ubuntu, silicon features, and silicon-optimized packages across platforms and technologies.

Skills

C programming

C++

Python

Open source

Distributed teamwork

Education

Undergraduate degree in a technical subject

Tools

Linux packaging

Docker/Kubernetes

Job description

Canonical is hiring for a role in Partner Engineering focused on open-source optimization across silicon technologies and Ubuntu stacks. The position emphasizes collaboration within a distributed team and contributing to a high-quality open-source ecosystem, spanning Ubuntu Core, Desktop, Server, and related tooling.

The role involves working with customers, upstream projects, and cross-functional teams to ensure silicon support, performance optimization, and robust packaging across