Software Engineer - Edge AI at Canonical

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Collaborate proactively with a distributed team</li> <li>Develop and maintain open-source AI/ML inference application packages</li> <li>Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them</li> <li>Review code produced by upstream and/or other engineers at Canonical</li> <li>Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions</li> <li>Experiment with Ubuntu Core and showcase industry-grade Edge AI solutions</li> <li>Secure deployment of AI inference platforms on Linux</li> <li>Build optimized AI solutions for local inferencing on Ubuntu</li> <li>Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Proven track record of at least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++.</li> <li>Experience working on and developing applications for Linux</li> <li>You have interest and experience with a few of the following:</li> <ul> <li>Containers (docker, kubernetes)</li> <li>Snap, debian, or RPM packaging</li> <li>Bash scripting</li> <li>CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc)</li> <li>Local AI/ML inference frameworks</li> <li>Hardware accelerators: GPU, NPU</li> </ul> <li>You value soft skills, communication and advocacy, and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated</li> <li>You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>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.</em></p> <p><em>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 </em><a href="https://canonical.com/careers/diversity/identity"><em>identity</em></a><em>, we will give your application fair consideration.</em></p> <p>#LI-remote</p>