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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