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Software Engineer, Operating Systems Virtualization

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Kanata, ON, CAN
Senior level
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Kanata, ON, CAN
Senior level
The Software Engineer will design and implement hypervisor features for Linux and RTOS, debug issues, maintain automation infrastructure, and contribute to architectural reviews and best practices.
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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 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. 
Software Engineer - Operating Systems Virtualization

Join our Guest Operating Systems team to build and enhance virtualization features for Linux and RTOS environments. You’ll collaborate with architects and developers on our hypervisor and ensure our virtualization stack delivers robust performance and reliability.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and implement hypervisor features supporting guest OS environments (Linux, VxWorks, RTOS)
  • Draft and maintain design documents; participate in architecture reviews
  • Debug and diagnose issues across hypervisor and guest OS layers
  • Develop and maintain automation infrastructure for guest image builds
  • Participate in code and design reviews, contributing to best practices
  • Communicate progress, challenges, and technical decisions with the team
Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
  • Contribute to the certification of the product to DO-178C DAL A
  • 57 years of professional software design and development experience
  • Proficiency in C and assembly programming on x86 and ARMv8 architectures
  • Familiarity with Embedded Linux distributions (Yocto, Wind River Linux, etc.)
  • Working knowledge of virtualization technologies (virtio, hardware acceleration, KVM)
  • Experience with embedded programming on an RTOS (VxWorks, FreeRTOS, etc.)
  • Device driver and board support package (BSP) development experience
  • Proficiency in Python scripting for automation, tooling, and build infrastructure
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
Preferred Qualifications
  • Prior contributions to open-source virtualization or hypervisor projects
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines for embedded systems
  • Exposure to performance and memory optimization in constrained environments

We’re seeking a proactive engineer who enjoys low-level systems work, thrives in a collaborative team, and is passionate about delivering high-quality virtualization support. If this sounds like you, we’d love to connect.

BENEFITS - Canada

  • 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.

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.                    

             

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“Wind River is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law”

SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS   

Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process in regard 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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Aptiv is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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