Solutions Architect for Automotive

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform Ubuntu is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud data science AI engineering innovation and IoT. 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 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few roles based in offices. 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. We are hiring a Solutions Architect for Automotive to help our partners (companies like Mercedes Ford GM Elektrobit Intel Nvidia Google Dell HP Accenture Tata and the like) and prospects understand and embrace our open source platform for themselves and their customers.

Our worldwide field engineering team apply expert insights to real-world customer problems enabling the enterprise adoption of Ubuntu OpenStack Kubernetes AI/MLOps and a wide range of associated technologies. We are experts in the whole open source stack from kernel to desktop from cloud to embedded. And we continue to expand our range of offerings to bring our security management and developer experience to the smallest Linux environments and devices. Our team is also interested in business problems - building things reliably efficiently and cost-effectively and we have to learn to speak the language of our customers and their industries.

Beyond an expected Automotive expertise this career opportunity requires a unique blend of skills. Successful candidates will know Linux well and be proficient coders and scripters. They will have experience of low-level Linux boot BIOS firmware and embedded software development methodologies. They also enjoy the pace of change and diversity of client engagements with driven and ambitious technology entrepreneurs. Competitive business-focused technologists at heart they are also dedicated team players that take pride in team and company wins. 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. We always want to do the best thing for our partners and customers regardless of our company interests and field engineers are the people we trust to ensure that is true.

Location : This is a home-based role we are hiring worldwide.

What your day will look like

• Engage customers during presales to gather requirements and explain our technology

• Liaise with other Canonical's experts (mastering the Cloud Kubernetes Security or Safety etc) to aggregate our collective knowledge into comprehensive solutions for our prospective clients

• Participate to the delivery of select projects related to Embedded Linux including demos and PoCs

• Convey market requirements to key stakeholders in our organization and sometimes participate to the development or refining of generic solutions to unlock market potential

• Be both a customer advocate and a trusted advisor to Canonical

If you have a passion for the latest open source technologies applied to Automotive if you want to play an active role in building Software Defined Vehicles if you are curious with a will to learn how to leverage and adapt Cloud technologies to the embedded world you will love working at Canonical.

What we are looking for in you

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field

• Extensive Linux experience - Debian or Ubuntu preferred

• Solid embedded Linux experience - Yocto or RTOS

• Fluency in Golang Python C C++ or Rust

• Professional written and spoken English in addition to the local language

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Interest in customer-facing engagement including pitching demonstrating and understanding customer environment and needs

• Result-oriented ability to multi-task

• A personal drive to meet commitments

• An humble learner and quick study

• Relevant experience in the Automotive industry

• Albeit many projects can be done remotely the successful candidate will be willing to  travel up to 30% of the time for customer meetings company events and conferences

Additional skills that you might also bring (but not mandatory)

• Experience with ISO26262 and/or ISO21434

• Experience with customer engagements

What we offer you

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 recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we’ve been working remotely since 2004!

• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2000 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 from your team and others

• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source. 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. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed we need to be the best at what we do.

Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.​ Work at Canonical is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently work smarter learn new skills and raise your game. Canonical provides a unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience perspectives and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.

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