Wind River / VxWorks support Engineer

ZealHire Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Part time

Job summary

Wind River is seeking a senior embedded systems/RTOS troubleshooter for a 6-month contract focused on VxWorks and Wind River Linux internals. You will debug kernel and driver code, reproduce complex customer environments, and own high‑stakes escalations.

Strong C/C++ skills and real hardware bring‑up experience are required. Expect collaboration with Product Management and Engineering, plus contributions to knowledge-base content.

Qualifications

• 8–15 years embedded systems/RTOS experience.
• Strong debugging skills down to kernel/driver level.
• Experience with Wind River products and hardware bring-up advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Reproduce customer environments in internal labs.
• Debug across OS, hardware, networking, virtualization, and embedded/real-time systems.
• Find root causes, build workarounds, document suspected defects.
• Own customer-facing communication on critical/escalated cases.
• Build knowledge-base content and mentor junior engineers.
• Act as liaison between Support, Product Management, and Engineering.

Skills

VxWorks

Wind River Linux

C/C++

BSPs & drivers

Toolchains (Diab/GCC/Clang)

Simics/QEMU

Tools

GCC

Clang

Workbench

Job description

Wind River / VxWorks support Engineer | JPC-8541

End client confidential for now Wind RiverEngineers

• 6-month contract(to start — likely extendable)
• 8–15 yearsexperience expected
• US Citizens only
• must send 3 full references
• must have full Linkedin
• must send photo ID
• 10+ openings— they're hiring a whole cohort
• 3-stage interview: technical screen (Kyndryl) → behavioral/technical (Wind River) → final round of three back-to-back 30-min interviews with differentWind Riverengineers

Must have:

Look at what "reproduce customer environments" and "identify root causes" actually mean in this stack:

• VxWorksis an RTOS written in C. Its kernel, drivers, BSPs (board support packages) — all C, with some C++ in newer components. If a customer reports a kernel panic, a driver hang, or a timing bug, you're reading disassembly, stack traces, and C source to figure out what broke.
• Wind RiverLinux— same story at the kernel/driver level (C), though more of the userspace tooling (systemd, udev, Yocto build layers) is scriptable.
• BSPs and drivers— this is entirely C/C++. You cannot debug a device driver interacting incorrectly with hardware without reading (and often instrumenting or patching) that C/C++ code directly.
• Toolchains like Diab, GCC, Clang, Workbench— these compile C/C++. Understanding compiler behavior, optimization bugs, linker issues, or toolchain diagnostics requires fluency in what the C/C++ source is supposed to produce at the binary level.
• Simics/QEMU simulation— used to simulate hardware behavior so you can step through C/C++ code in a debugger without needing physical hardware.

What you'd actually do:

This isdeep technical support, not a help desk — think tier‑3/escalation engineering:

• Reproduce customer environments in internal labs
• Debug across OS, hardware, networking, virtualization, and embedded/real‑time systems
• Find root causes, build workarounds, document suspected product defects
• Own customer‑facing communication on critical/escalated cases
• Build knowledge‑base content and mentor junior support engineers
• Act as a liaison between Support, Product Management, and Engineering

Nice‑to‑haves:

• DirectWind Riverproduct experience
• Aerospace/defense/telecom/industrial (safety‑critical) domain background
• Kubernetes, OpenStack, DevOps, cloud/container experience
• Experience authoring knowledge‑base articles or leading escalations
  

Bottom line:They want asenior embedded systems/RTOS troubleshooter— someone who's lived in VxWorks andWind RiverLinux internals, can debug down to the driver/kernel level, and can also communicate well enough to manage high‑stakes customer escalation·6‑month contract(to start — likely extendable)

$000,000 – $000,000 Salary range is not shown on the candidate portal