SMTS - Software Engineer\u2013 Real Time Operating Systems

Wind River; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in Ottawa is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join their RTOS development team. The role involves leading design efforts, mentoring team members, and ensuring high-quality code production. Candidates should have significant experience in operating systems, particularly in C/C++, and ideally possess leadership skills. The company offers a hybrid work model along with comprehensive health benefits and vacation policies.

Benefits

Hybrid Work

Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance

Matching RRSP

Well-being programs

Qualifications

• 12-14+ years of relevant technical experience in software operating system development.
• Proven experience in a leadership or mentoring role within a development team.
• Deep understanding of operating system concepts, such as user process management and memory management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of operating system components.
• Mentor and coach team members, fostering a collaborative environment.
• Develop and deliver high-quality design, code, and tests following CI/CD model.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Leadership and mentoring

Analytical skills

Agile methodology

Education

BSc / MSc in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

RTOS development

Virtualization technologies

Job description

Overview

Description Position at Wind River SMTS - Software Engineer– Real Time Operating Systems

Location: Ottawa, Canada

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 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.

About the Opportunity

The successful candidate will join a global and highly skilled RTOS development teams to develop our next generation VxWorks Operating System. This candidate shall collaborate with remote technical leads to lead and drive innovative ideas and design and develop new capabilities, while ensuring the core values of VxWorks in being a secure, safe, high performing and reliability operating system. This candidate will also engage in building out a local development team.

About You

Responsibilities:

• Be able to lead the design and development of operating system components, ensuring alignment with VxWorks core values.
• Mentor and coach team members, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Develop and deliver high quality design, code, and test following a CI/CD model and agile methodology.
• Perform in-depth analysis and troubleshooting of issues, driving resolution and improvement.
• Develop and enforce best practices for coding, documentation, and testing within the team.
• Participate in all aspects of the software development process using Agile development.

Qualifications/Skills:

• BSc / MSc degree (Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or equivalent technical degree).
• 12-14+ years of relevant technical experience in software operating system development.
• Proven experience in a leadership or mentoring role within a development team.
• Excellent in C/C++ and assembly language
• Exceptional analytical and debugging skills.
• Deep understanding of operating system concepts, such as user process management, memory management, and file systems.
• Experience with RTOS software development such as core OS kernel capabilities.
• Low level device driver, BSP board bring up, or architecture level development is a plus.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience with virtualization technologies is a plus.
• Strong leadership and team collaboration skills.
• Familiarity with iterative and agile/scrum software development processes.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities effectively.
• Knowledge of ASPICE or automotive standard a plus.

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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