Software Engineer - Edge AI

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, edge computing, and AI. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

Your role will be to help us provide easy-to-deploy, secure, and customizable edge AI solutions, specifically focusing on Inference Snaps. You will work on designing and implementing silicon-optimized application packages for AI/ML inference, targeting devices from embedded systems to powerful gateways. Linux will be at the core of your everyday challenges.

In our team we value collaboration, peer reviews, good integration/unit testing, and writing maintainable code. General knowledge and experience with Linux as a developer platform is required. 

What you’ll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Develop and maintain open-source AI/ML inference application packages
• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by upstream and/or other engineers at Canonical
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Experiment with Ubuntu Core and showcase industry-grade Edge AI solutions
• Secure deployment of AI inference platforms on Linux
• Build optimized AI solutions for local inferencing on Ubuntu
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Who you are

• Proven track record of at least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++.
• Experience working on and developing applications for Linux
• You have interest and experience with a few of the following:
• Containers (docker, kubernetes)
• Snap, debian, or RPM packaging
• Bash scripting
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc)
• Local AI/ML inference frameworks
• Hardware accelerators: GPU, NPU
• You value soft skills, communication and advocacy, and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree

Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world’s best free software platform. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.

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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How to apply

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