About Wind River
Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability. Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy.
The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones, including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.
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The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software-defined world.
Job Description:
For this position, you would be joining the guest operating system team as a technical expert on Android builds and Android support in a virtualized environment. Your main duties would entail working on our hypervisor to enable Android guest support and maintain our state-of-the-art virtualization support all our guest operating systems, provide detailed designs for review to architects and the development team, perform code and design reviews with the team and support the overall development process. You will also be called upon to debug and diagnose issues with our hypervisor and/or any of our supported operating systems.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team.
- Make detailed design decisions on feature implementation.
- Implements important parts of features.
- Assist in infrastructure development and maintenance for guest image builds.
- Perform code and design reviews.
Desired Skills & Qualifications:
- BSc / MSc degree (Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or equivalent technical degree)
- Solid understanding of software development methodology
- Minimum 12 year experience in designing complex software features
- Minimum 12 year experience working in a software design and development role
- Solid programming experience in C and assembly (x86, ARMv8)
- Expert in Android builds, hardware customization and deployment
- Strong familiarity with Embedded Linux distribution (Yocto, WR Linux, etc…)
- Embedded programming experience with an RTOS.
- Background in virtualization technologies including virtio, hardware acceleration
- Device driver and Board Support Package development
- Great interpersonal and communication skills
Benefits
- Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work.
- Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance.
- Income protection through short and long-term disability coverage.
- Matching RRSP.
- Vacation and various time off policies to encourage work-life balance.
- Well-being programs: Employee assistance program, mental well-being through Unmind.
- Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY
Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics.