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 to work in the Intelligent Real-Time Operating System Lab. The role involves exploring real-time OS research for embedded devices and contributing to next-generation OS technology. Ideal candidates will have experience in real-time OS design and development, particularly with C/C++, along with strong research and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in real-time operating system design and development.
• Strong background in system software development, particularly in C/C++.
• Knowledge of CPU architecture relevant to software development.

Responsibilities

• Explore real-time OS research or development for embedded devices.
• Contribute to next-generation real-time OS technology.
• Solve challenges in scheduling and resource allocation.

Skills

Real-time operating system design

C/C++ development

CPU architecture knowledge

Strong research ability

Effective 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.

About the job:

• 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.
  
  

Job requirements

About the ideal candidate:

• 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.