engineering
Posted Nov 28, 2025Linux Software Engineer - Ubuntu for Next-Gen Silicon (multiple roles and seniority levels)
at Canonical
Home Based Americas, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.
- Canonical’s Partner Engineering Team is looking for open-source enthusiasts to work across the full Linux stack to ensure new silicon technologies, such as new hardware accelerators, AI stacks, confidential computing, networking, virtualization, and containerization stacks, are optimized for new silicons.
- Collaborating with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers
- Helping our our customers to integrate their apps, SDKs, build OS images, optimize applications with Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server
- Servers, HPC and AI systems, IoT devices, PCs, SmartNICs and automotive systems AI stacks
- New architectures, architecture variants and optimized toolchains
- Platform security (secure boot, FDE, Ubuntu Core, Confidential Computing)
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a 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
- Fundamental understanding of package management and dependency resolution Additional skills that you might also bring •
- Experience with one or more of the following:
- Virtualization and containers (Docker, OCI, Kubernetes)
- Hardware enablement for platforms and devices, including SmartNICs, NVMe storage, GPUs, audio components, and sensors
- Toolchain development and maintenance
- Networking protocols and technologies (TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP/REST)
- 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 on a daily basis.
Benefits
- 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.
- In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
- Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors.
- The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
- The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
- Partner Engineering works closely with worldwide silicon companies to optimize Ubuntu for their new silicon, from x86, ARM, RISC-V, PowerPC and s390x architectures.
- Location: This is a Globally remote role The role entails
- 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.