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. The company has 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.
About the Role
You will help build and sustain the platform alongside the Wind River team that runs AI Systems on the device — a Rust-based system that manages AI application lifecycles across a heterogeneous fleet of edge hardware. This is a hands-on role on hard systems problems: constrained compute, cross-architecture builds, OTA updates, and production-grade observability. You will start with well-scoped pieces of the platform, with mentoring and code review from senior engineers, and grow into larger areas of ownership. You are expected to make AI tooling a core part of how you work from day one.
What You'll Do
•Implement and test components of the edge packaging and runtime system — a containerless / OCI-based approach to shipping AI Systems to heterogeneous devices
•Contribute to the on-device orchestration platform and help support OTA update and lifecycle management for fielded devices
•Measure and improve inference and resource usage on constrained CPU/GPU/NPU hardware
•Work on cross-compilation and CI/CD pipelines for reproducible, secure multi-architecture builds
•Help integrate the device fleet with the cloud control plane and backend services (REST/gRPC, OpenAPI, MQTT)
•Reproduce, diagnose, and fix defects on real hardware, and turn what you learn into tests
•Use agentic AI coding tools daily for implementation, refactoring, review, and debugging — and build real judgment about where they help and where they don't
•Take part in the team's AI-assisted engineering practice: working patterns, guardrails, and what stays human-owned
•Keep the codebase and its documentation in a state that people can work in effectively
Mandatory Experience
•Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience), and 1 to 3 years of professional software engineering experience
•Working proficiency in Rust or Python, and willingness to learn the other (C/C++ exposure is a plus)
•Hands-on experience using agentic AI tools in the software development workflow — AI coding assistants and agents for implementation, refactoring, and review — and an emerging point of view on their limits
•Comfortable on Linux and with Git-based workflows
•Experience with embedded Linux
•Systematic debugging instincts: you narrow problems down rather than guess
•Clear written communication and the ability to work with a team distributed across NA, Europe, and India
•Genuine curiosity about the full stack — cloud, edge, and web/backend — and about how the networking stack works
Nice to Have
•Exposure to embedded Linux or systems programming
•ML frameworks or inference runtimes (PyTorch, ONNX, TensorRT, TFLite, OpenVINO) and the realities of running models on device
•NPU/GPU hardware such as Jetson, Qualcomm, Hailo, or Ambarella
•GenAI/LLM tooling or RAG pipelines; multi-arch builds; a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure); GitLab CI
Why Join Us?
In a world increasingly driven by software innovation, Wind River is pioneering the technologies that accelerate the digital transformation of its customers with a new generation of mission-critical AI systems—built for an AI-first world with the most exacting safety, security, performance, and reliability standards. Wind River's technology has supported historic achievements—from NASA's Artemis I and the James Webb Space Telescope to multiple Mars rovers, as well as the world's first successful 5G data session with Verizon and one of the largest Open RAN networks with Vodafone.
Your Benefits at Wind River
•Named Top Workplace for the 10th year in a row
•Wind River's strong commitment to DEIB
•Birthday and Volunteer Time Off
•Competitive Salary & Benefits Package
•Extensive Learning Programs
•Wellness benefits through Unmind
