Software Engineer, Operating Systems Virtualization

Aptiv•Kanata, ON

4d•Hybrid

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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
Contribute to the certification of the product to DO-178C DAL A
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