AI Researcher — Distillation

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps.

Our partner is looking for a Linux Software Engineer - Ubuntu for Next-Gen Silicon (multiple roles and seniority levels) based in United Kingdom.

This role focuses on advancing Ubuntu across the latest generations of silicon and hardware platforms, working across the full Linux software stack.

You will collaborate with global silicon partners to optimize operating systems, packages, toolchains, and software ecosystems for emerging architectures and technologies.

Your work may span AI accelerators, graphics, networking, virtualization, containers, confidential computing, IoT, embedded systems, PCs, servers, and HPC environments.

The position combines hands-on software engineering, open-source development, debugging, hardware enablement, and performance optimization.

You will work closely with engineering teams, upstream communities, technology partners, and customers to deliver high-quality experiences across diverse platforms.

This is a globally distributed, remote role offering opportunities to contribute to technologies shaping the future of computing.

Accountabilities Develop, maintain, and optimize Linux software across the full Ubuntu stack for next-generation silicon and hardware platforms.

• Collaborate with silicon and technology partners to enable new architectures, hardware capabilities, and optimized software experiences.

Work across platforms including servers, HPC and AI systems, IoT devices, PCs, SmartNICs, and automotive systems.

Contribute to AI stacks, graphics, audio and multimedia, virtualization, containers, hardware enablement, and optimized toolchains.

• Support new architectures and architecture variants across x86, ARM, RISC-V, PowerPC, s390x, and other emerging platforms.

• Develop and maintain silicon-optimized packages, package dependencies, and distribution components.

Contribute to platform security technologies such as Secure Boot, full-dis.