Software Engineer, Operating Systems Virtualization

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Position at Wind River
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, Guest 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
• 5–7 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.

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