At a Glance
- Tasks: Engage with clients, deliver Embedded Linux projects, and advocate for customer needs.
- Company: Join Canonical, a leader in open source software and innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, annual bonuses, remote work, and personal development budget.
- Other info: Opportunity to travel and collaborate globally with a diverse team.
- Why this job: Be part of a pioneering team shaping the future of technology.
- Qualifications: Fluent in Mandarin, strong Linux skills, and coding experience required.
The predicted salary is between 82800 - 101200 $ per year.
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. We are hiring a Mandarin Speaking Embedded Linux Field Engineer for Devices/IoT to expand our reach in mission-critical industries such as Automotive, Medical Devices, Industrial Systems, Robotics, and Telco, as well as Consumer Electronics.
This career opportunity requires a unique blend of skills. Successful candidates will know Linux well and be proficient coders and scripters. They will have experience of low-level Linux boot, BIOS, firmware and embedded software development methodologies. Competitive, business-focused technologists at heart, they are also dedicated team players that take pride in team and company wins.
Location: This role will be based remotely in the APAC region, except in locations where we have an office, such as Taipei and Beijing.
What your day will look like:
- Engage customers during presales to gather requirements and explain our technology.
- Elaborate solutions to be proposed to prospective clients.
- Participate in the delivery of select projects related to Embedded Linux.
- Convey market requirements to key stakeholders in our organization.
- Be both a customer advocate and a trusted advisor to Canonical.
What we are looking for in you:
- The candidate needs to be fluent in Mandarin and willing to travel to China regularly.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Distribution / Packaging experience (deb, rpm, ...).
- Solid embedded Linux experience (Yocto, Buildroot...).
- 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.
Additional skills that you might also bring:
- Experience with customer engagements is a plus.
What we offer colleagues:
- 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.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer.
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