Junior Software Developer - Real-time Operating System

Huawei Canada; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Ottawa is seeking a Junior Software Developer focused on innovations in real-time operating systems. The role involves exploring OS research for embedded devices, contributing to next-gen OS technology, and solving complex resource management problems. Ideal candidates have experience in C/C++ and a solid understanding of real-time system design. This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of technology.

Qualifications

• Experience in real-time operating system design, development, and integration.
• Expertise in system software development, mainly in C/C++.
• Strong ability to research and apply complex topics.
• Effective communication skills for technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Explore real-time OS research and development for embedded devices.
• Contribute to the building of next-generation real-time OS technology.
• Solve complex problems in scheduling and resource allocation.
• Develop tooling to address performance challenges.

Skills

Real-time operating system design

C/C++ software development

CPU architecture knowledge

Research and distillation of complex topics

Technical documentation and communication

Job description

Huawei Canada has an immediate contract opening for a Junior Software Developer.

About the team: The Intelligent Real-Time Operating System Lab focuses on OS architecture, concurrency challenges, and optimal resource management for diverse use cases such as the compute required for AI/ML. This lab aims to innovate operating system designs for mixed-criticality environments that exceed traditional methods. The focus of this lab is to develop next-generation OS platform support to enable high performance, maximum concurrency and challenging resource management with ML/AI agents or services. Our goal is to ensure enhanced performance and reliability in increasingly complex environments that embedded devices at the edge presents.

Responsibilities

• Exploring the real-time OS research or development targeting embedded devices, cloud & virtualized computing and automotive domain.
• Contribute and help build the next-generation real-time OS technology to power a broad range of compute platforms.
• Solve some very challenging problems around scheduling, resource allocation, isolation and IPC in very complex systems use cases.
• Focus on developing tooling and solutions to performance challenges in the system.

Qualifications

• Experience and expertise in the field of real-time operating system design, development and integration.
• Experience in system software development (mainly C/C++).
• CPU architecture knowledge for system software development.
• Strong ability to research complex topics, distill knowledge into concrete designs and apply to new or existing projects.
• Strong communication ability to document and present technical information and solutions effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.