About this Engineer role at Aptiv
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.
YOUR ROLE
As an Engineer on the Wind River Linux team, you develop and maintain BSP and Linux kernel components for embedded platforms across ARM and x86. You own well-scoped hardware-enablement and kernel work end to end, bring-up, drivers, device trees, and defect fixes, CVE fixes, working independently on your assignments while learning from senior engineers on the harder cross-layer problems. You write clean, maintainable code, debug real hardware/kernel issues, and grow toward technical ownership of a platform or subsystem.
In your daily job you will:
What You'll Do
Development & Implementation
- Develop and maintain BSP components, device trees, and machine configurations for supported platforms.
- Work on Linux kernel bring-up, driver enablement, and defect fixes; backport patches and CVE fixes into LTS kernels under guidance.
- Support hardware bring-up and validation — bootloader config, kernel boot, peripheral enablement.
- Write high-quality, maintainable code and recipes following team and Yocto/OpenEmbedded conventions.
- Debug and resolve BSP and kernel issues across boot, drivers, and system init.
Technical Growth & Collaboration
- Participate in code reviews and design discussions; take on progressively larger, less-bounded work as you grow.
- Mentor P1 (Associate) engineers on tasks you've mastered.
- Collaborate across a distributed team (US / India); share what you learn through clear documentation.
- Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and retrospectives, and contribute to team process improvements.
BSP / Kernel Specific
- Enable new hardware platforms and processors; configure device trees and hardware abstraction layers.
- Work with hardware vendors' BSPs and reference designs to integrate into the WRLinux Yocto layers.
- Maintain compatibility across hardware platforms and kernel versions; keep recipes and configs current with the release cadence.
- Contribute to platform performance, boot-time, and reliability improvements.
Required Skills
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Electronics/Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- 3–5 years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years on embedded systems / embedded Linux.
- Hands-on C in production systems; C++ a plus.
- Solid background in the software development lifecycle on Linux.
Technical Skills
- Strong C programming on Linux.
- Solid understanding of embedded systems and hardware-software interaction.
- Working knowledge of the Linux kernel drivers, device trees, boot flow.
- Experience with a build system — Yocto / OpenEmbedded (strongly preferred), Buildroot, or similar.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving (GDB, kernel logs, serial console; JTAG a plus).
- Git and code-review fluency; Agile/Scrum.
- Python for scripting/automation is a plus.
Nice to Have
- OSS/upstream contribution track record (kernel or Yocto layers).
- Edge-AI inference stacks on embedded silicon (TensorRT, OpenVINO, ONNX Runtime, TF Lite)
“Windriver 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”
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