Wind River​/VxWorks support Engineer

End client confidential for now Wind River Engineers

• 6-month contract
  (to start — likely extendable)
• 8–15 years
  experience expected
• US Citizens only
• must send 3 full references
• must have full Linkedin
• must send photo
• 10+ openings
  — they're hiring a whole cohort
• 3-stage interview
  : technical screen (Kyndryl) → behavioral/technical (Wind River) → final round of three back-to-back 30-min interviews with different
  
  Wind River engineers

Look at what "reproduce customer environments" and "identify root causes" actually mean in this stack:

• Vx Works is an RTOS written in
  
  C. Its kernel, drivers, BSPs (board support packages) — all C, with some C++ in newer components. If a customer reports a kernel panic, a driver hang, or a timing bug, you're reading disassembly, stack traces, and C source to figure out what broke.
• Wind River
  Linux— same story at the kernel/driver level (C), though more of the userspace tooling (systemd, udev, Yocto build layers) is scriptable.
• BSPs and drivers
  — this is entirely C/C++. You cannot debug a device driver interacting incorrectly with hardware without reading (and often instrumenting or patching) that C/C++ code directly.
• Tool chains like Diab, GCC, Clang, Workbench
  — these compile C/C++. Understanding compiler behavior, optimization bugs, linker issues, or toolchain diagnostics requires fluency in what the C/C++ source is supposed to produce at the binary level.
• Simics/QEMU simulation
  — used to simulate hardware behavior so you can step through C/C++ code in a debugger without needing physical hardware.

This is
deep technical support
, not a help desk — think tier‑3/escalation engineering:

• Reproduce customer environments in internal labs
• Debug across OS, hardware, networking, virtualization, and embedded/real‑time systems
• Find root causes, build workarounds, document suspected product defects
• Own customer‑facing communication on critical/escalated cases
• Build knowledge‑base content and mentor junior support engineers
• Act as a liaison between Support, Product Management, and Engineering

• Direct Wind River product experience
• Aerospace/defense/telecom/industrial (safety‑critical) domain background
• Kubernetes, Open Stack, Dev Ops, cloud/container experience
• Experience authoring knowledge‑base articles or leading escalations

Bottom line:They want a
senior embedded systems/RTOS troubleshooter
— someone who's lived in VxWorks andWind River Linux internals, can debug down to the driver/kernel level, and can also communicate well enough to manage high‑stakes customer escalation·6‑month contract
(to start — likely extendable)

$000,000 – $000,000 Salary range is not shown on the candidate portal