System Engineer - Core Kernel

Wind River Systems, Inc.
Walnut Creek, CA, United States
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$130,000.0 - $160,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Board Bringup C (Programming Language) Agile Methodology C++ (Programming Language) Code Review Continuous Integration Software Debugging Device Drivers Python (Programming Language) Real-Time Operating Systems Software Engineering Systems Integration
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VxWorks Programming Languages

Job description

As a Core Kernel Engineer, you will support the development of kernel components for the VxWorks operating system, assisting in implementation, testing, and debugging while working closely with experienced engineers to build your skills in system-level development.

In your daily job you will:

  • Support the development of Core OS technologies for our embedded VxWorks OS
  • Contribute to coding, testing, and validation following a CI/CD model and agile methodology
  • Assist in investigating and resolving issues found during product verification and testing
  • Contribute to documentation and participate in code reviews
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support hardware and software integration

Requirements

  • +5 years of relevant experience in OS Kernel level
  • Strong experience of operating systems concepts
  • Strong experience with RTOS software development, including core OS kernel functionality
  • Strong experience in C programming with hands-on experience in embedded systems development
  • Strong experience with assembly, C++, Python, and other development languages is a plus
  • Experience with low-level device drivers, BSP board bring-up.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Self-motivated, fast learner with a demonstrated ability to adopt and master new technologies

Benefits & conditions

  • Hybrid work model for workplace flexibility
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and life insurance
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • RRSP matching for financial security
  • Flexible time-off policies for work-life balance
  • Employee assistance program for mental well-being
  • Learning benefits, including a LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars, This role is compensation range is between $130,000 to $160,000 USD plus annual incentive plan bonus. Compensation is determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company’s plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays.

About the company

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., Join us at Wind River, where we’re not just shaping technology; we’re shaping the future of a safer, more connected world. Your journey to make a meaningful impact begins here.

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