Linux Software Engineer - Ubuntu for Next-Gen Silicon (multiple roles and seniority levels)

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a distributed team and help maintain a seamless Ubuntu user experience.
• Review engineering contributions, debug open-source and team-maintained code, and help shape Ubuntu’s direction.
• Work with Ubuntu and Debian communities, upstream projects, customers, and silicon partners.
• Help customers integrate apps and SDKs, build OS images, and optimize applications with Ubuntu Core, Desktop, and Server.
• Maintain Ubuntu, silicon features, and silicon-optimized packages across servers, HPC and AI systems, IoT devices, PCs, SmartNICs, and automotive systems.
• Contribute across AI, graphics, audio, multimedia, virtualization, containers, hardware enablement, architectures, toolchains, package management, and platform security.

What the role requires

• Exceptional academic track record from high school and university.
• Undergraduate technical degree, or a compelling narrative about an alternative chosen path.
• Strong fundamentals in C, C++, and Python.
• Fundamental understanding of package management and dependency resolution.
• Curiosity, flexibility, clear communication, accountability, self-motivation, and the ability to build partnerships across diverse groups.

Additional skills that may help

• Experience with Linux distribution packaging and open-source maintenance or contribution is relevant; interest in learning these areas is also stated.
• Additional experience may include graphics, audio or multimedia; virtualization and containers; hardware enablement; performance optimization; toolchain development; networking; security; or IoT and embedded systems.

Compensation and benefits

• Compensation considers geographic location, experience, and performance and is reviewed annually.
• The compensation package includes base pay and an annual performance-driven bonus or commission.
• Benefits include a USD 2,000 annual personal learning and development budget, recognition rewards, annual holiday leave, parental leave, and a wellness and assistance program.
• The company describes a distributed work environment with team sprints in person and travel opportunities to meet colleagues.

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