Embedded Software Engineer - Member of Technical Staff

Description

Position at Wind River



Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Location: Canada – Onsite or Remote

Security and Citizenship Clearance Required

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.

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.

What You’ll Do

Wind River is seeking an experienced developer to join the VxWorks Development Team. The successful candidate will develop new features, modify existing features by adding new functionality and certify features that will be used by our Aerospace, Industrial and Automotive customers.

Who You Will Work With

The successful candidate will join a highly skilled development team delivering products, with a focus on VxWorks OS certified software for use in mission-critical avionics applications. This teamwork closely with the product management team and system architects to understand and implement customers.

Responsibilities

• Work with product management and system architect to understand customer requirements
• Develop product features in accordance with customer requirements
• Actively participate in technical certification activities
• Provide technical leadership to junior members of the team
• Take initiatives to improve features and processes
• Help keep team focused and organized for releases
• Identify, communicate, and coordinate inter-team dependencies
• Seek opportunities to collaborate between teams
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• BSc / MSc degree (Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or equivalent technical degree).
• Solid understanding of software development methodology
• Minimum 7 years experience in designing complex software features
• Minimum 7 year experience working in a software design and development role
• Solid programming experience in C, C++ and Python
• Ability to work well in a team
• Strong technical leadership skills
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong documentation and writing skills
• Familiarity with software configuration management tools and defect tracking tools
• Knowledge of DO-178 certification standard and certification experience is an asset
• Experience in embedded software development is an asset
• Knowledge or experience with Agile development workflows is an asset
  
  

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.

To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

Applicant Privacy Notice

Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At Wind River, we strictly adhere to all applicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River's Applicant Privacy Notice, which can be found here.

Security Clearance Requirements

Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process in regards to their citizenship in order to perform fundamental job duties, as per applicable law. In particular, candidates with certain citizenship may not be able to perform such fundamental job duties. Currently, this includes citizens of the following countries: Belarus; Burma; China; Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Syria; Venezuela; Afghanistan; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Cyprus; Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Eritrea; Haiti; Iraq; Lebanon; Libya; Russia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Zimbabwe. The security clearance process may take a significant amount of time to complete, and any offer of employment will be contingent on the candidate's legal ability to perform the fundamental job duties. Wind River is committed to meeting its obligations to candidates under applicable human rights law and privacy law in this regard.

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