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Embedded Linux Consultant
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Japan
Experience
3 years
Job description
Embedded Linux Field Engineer for Devices/IoT at Canonical, working remotely from Japan to engage customers, explain Ubuntu technology, and deliver Embedded Linux projects.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Japan
- Languages
- English – professional
What you'll do
- Engage customers during presales to gather requirements and explain our technology
- Elaborate solutions to be proposed to prospective clients
- Participate to the delivery of select projects related to Embedded Linux
- 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
What we're looking for
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Extensive Linux experience - Debian or Ubuntu preferred
- Solid embedded Linux experience (Yocto, Buildroot...) or RTOS
- Fluency in at least one of Golang, Python, C, C++, or Rust
- Professional written and spoken English in addition to the local language
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Result-oriented, ability to multi-task
- A personal drive to meet commitments
- An humble learner and quick study
- Willing to travel up to 30% of the time for customer meetings, company events, and conferences
- For positions in Japan and Korea, able to speak and write the local language at a professional level
Nice to have
- Experience with customer engagements a plus, but not a requirement
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 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
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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About Canonical
The company that publishes Ubuntu
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. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few office based roles.
Mission
We are changing the world of software through open source.
Key facts
- 1000+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries
- Very few office based roles
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Founder led, profitable and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since its inception in 2004
What they value
- Excellence
- We always want to do the best thing for our partners and customers, regardless of our company interests
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products