MTS - Software Engineer - RTOS, Embedded Development
Wind RiverOttawa, Ontario, Canada
Posted January 6, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
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.
Job Description
Wind River is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Operating Systems Developer Lead to lead and guide our local team in designing, developing and optimizing our VxWorks operating system components.
Requirements
- BSc / MSc degree (Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or equivalent technical degree)
- 8+ years of relevant technical experience in software operation 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 automative standard a plus
- Experience with embedded security, in some of the following areas: Analyzing CVEs impact on embedded designs and integrating custom and open-source code changes to address vulnerabilities, Implementing a secure bootloader, Creating an encrypted storage devices driver or filesystems, Developing encrypted network protocols, Securing an embedded design using hardware keystore and asymmetric cryptography
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