Embedded Linux Field Engineer (Mandarin speaking)
Job description
A remote field engineer role in the APAC region focused on Embedded Linux for Devices/IoT, engaging customers in presales, elaborating solutions, and delivering projects related to Embedded Linux. The role requires Mandarin fluency and regular travel to China.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · APAC region
- Languages
- Mandarin – fluent, English
What you'll do
- Engage customers during presales to gather requirements and explain our technology
- Elaborate solutions to be proposed to prospective clients
- Participate to the delivery of select projects related to Embedded Linux
- 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
What we're looking for
- The candidate needs to be fluent in Mandarin and willing to travel to China regularly
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Extensive Linux experience - Debian or Ubuntu preferred
- 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
- Albeit many projects can be done remotely, the successful candidate will be willing to travel up to 30% of the time for customer meetings, company events, and conferences
Nice to have
- Experience with customer engagements is a plus
Benefits
- 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
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About Canonical
A leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Founder-led, profitable, and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since its inception in 2004
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
What they value
- We always want to do the best thing for our partners and customers, regardless of our company interests
- We expect excellence
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products