Remote || Wind River Engineer

Remote || Wind River Engineers

Remote, US-based

6-month contract (to start - likely extendable)

8+ years experience expected

must send 3 full references

must have full Linkedin

Must have:

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

VxWorks is 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 River Linux - 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 is deep 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:

Direct Wind River product 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 a senior embedded systems/RTOS troubleshooter - someone who's lived in VxWorks and Wind River Linux internals, can debug down to the driver/kernel level, and can also communicate well enough to manage high-stakes customer escalations and mentor others. It's a niche, deep-specialist role, not a generalist IT support

Thanks & Regards

Akhilesh@dmsvisions.com