Jobs at Canonical

What You'll Do

• Work with Product Management to refine the vision and strategy for automotive at Canonical
• Define and execute an engineering roadmap for the automotive team at Canonical
• Represent Ubuntu and Canonical in the automotive community, in front of customers, partners and consortia
• Build and lead a globally distributed team of engineers and coordinate, guide and oversee their work
• Develop skills through coaching, feedback and hands-on technical leadership
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Work from home with international travel twice a year, up to two weeks at a time, for company events

Who You Are

• You have a strong software engineering, Linux, and open source background
• You have knowledge of automotive and industry standards such as ISO21434, ISO26262, SOTIF, IEC 65108, and ideally have led product development initiatives that fulfilled compliance with one or more of the mentioned standards
• You have in-depth knowledge in Linux packages and embedded development
• You have experience in C/C++ and Python programming
• You have practical experience in automotive, including functional safety, embedded systems, cloud and related software trends
• You have experience leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers
• You have a track record of timely delivery and high quality software
• You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it
• You have experience working in an agile development environment

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What you'll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Obsess over how to achieve robustness despite unexpected events like power outages
• Work from home with global travel for up to two weeks, twice a year

Who you are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills, are thoughtful and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have professional software development experience using Go, Python, C, or C++
• You know Linux system-level fundamentals, e.g. cgroups, namespaces, apparmor
• Commitment to software testing, code reviews and maintainable code