Software Engineer, Operating Systems Virtualization

Aptiv • Kanata, ON

11d

About The Position

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. Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries. The company helps customers solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. Wind River 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. The company fosters a unique culture based on growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

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

Benefits

• global Great Place to Work certification
• named a "Top Workplace" for ten consecutive years
• committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level