Engineering Intern

Engineering Kanata, Canada


Description

Position at Wind River

Associate Engineer / Intern – P1
Location: Canada, Kanata, ON
 
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
Within the Wind River Cloud team, we work with large-scale projects including Kubernetes, Docker,OpenStackand fast-paced Open-Source technologies that are in high demand from our customers. Wind River Cloud has adopted these technologies into the core of our product, which is driving us to find experienced and high-performing individuals that can learn and contribute to these full software stack solutions to fulfill the strict requirements of edge computing use cases from security to high availability. The team delivers in the areas of configuration management, fault management and host management. In addition, Wind River Cloud team is a leading contributor to the Open SourceStarlingXcloud native project, to manage and maintain the critical infrastructure for highly distributed Edge solutions, primarily 5G.    

In your daily job you will:

  • Helping to develop and test starlingx for the Wind River Cloud Platform
  • Take the initiative to improve features and processes.
  • Contribute ideas for product improvements and iterations.
  • Collaborate effectively with global software engineering teams.
HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE 
Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:
  • BE/BTech or ME/MTech degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or equivalent.
  • Strong in C, C++, RTOS Fundamentals.
  • Good understanding of automation tools, technology landscape, and OOPS concepts.
  • Good understanding of embedded systems and familiarity in building and developing SW modules
  • Driver and board-level system software test development and integration.
  • Completed embedded courses from any reputed institutes like Cranes/Vector.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Excellent analytical and debugging skills.
  • Experience in scripting language e.g., Python

 

BENEFITS - Canada
  • Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance.
  • Vacation and various time off policies to encourage work-life balance.
  • Well-being programs: Employee assistance program, mental well-being through Unmind .
  • Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.
 
APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE:                
Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At Wind River, we strictly adhere to all applicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River's Applicant Privacy Notice, which can be found here .                    
 
“Wind River 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”
 
SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS   
Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process in regard to their citizenship in order to perform fundamental job duties, as per applicable law. In particular, candidates with certain citizenship may not be able to perform such fundamental job duties. Currently, this includes citizens of the following countries: Belarus; Burma; China; Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Syria; Venezuela; Afghanistan; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Cyprus; Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Eritrea; Haiti; Iraq; Lebanon; Libya; Russia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Zimbabwe. The security clearance process may take a significant amount of time to complete, and any offer of employment will be contingent on the candidate's legal ability to perform the fundamental job duties. Wind River is committed to meeting its obligations to candidates under applicable human rights law and privacy law in this regard.

 

Wind River is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. We prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.