Solutions Architect for Automotive

About the role

The Solutions Architect for Automotive will engage with customers during presales to gather requirements and explain Canonical's open source platform. They will collaborate with other experts within Canonical to develop comprehensive solutions for prospective clients, participate in project deliveries, and convey market requirements to key stakeholders. The role involves being both a customer advocate and a trusted advisor, ensuring that Canonical's solutions meet the needs of partners and customers.

Responsibilities

• Engage customers during presales to gather requirements and explain our technology
• Liaise with other Canonical experts to aggregate our collective knowledge into comprehensive solutions for prospective clients
• Participate to the delivery of select projects related to Embedded Linux, including demos and PoCs
• 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

Requirements

Successful candidates will have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Extensive Linux experience - Debian or Ubuntu preferred
• Solid embedded Linux experience - Yocto or RTOS
• Fluency in Golang, Python, C, C++, or Rust
• Professional written and spoken English in addition to the local language
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• An interest in customer-facing engagement, including pitching, demonstrating, and understanding customer environment and needs
• A result-oriented, ability to multi-task
• A personal drive to meet commitments
• A humble learner and quick study
• Relevant experience in the Automotive industry

Qualifications

Additional skills that you might also bring (but not mandatory):

• Experience with ISO26262 and/or ISO21434
• Experience with customer engagements

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. They also enjoy the pace of change and diversity of client engagements with driven and ambitious technology entrepreneurs.

Benefits

Our worldwide field engineering team applies expert insights to real-world customer problems, enabling the enterprise adoption of Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes, AI/MLOps, and a wide range of associated technologies. We are experts in the whole open source stack, from kernel to desktop, from cloud to embedded. And we continue to expand our range of offerings to bring our security, management, and developer experience to the smallest Linux environments and devices.

Pay

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus.

Schedule

We provide a distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we've been working remotely since 2004!

Additional Information

We provide a 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, and opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others. Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.