Engineering Director – Helix Virtualization Platform

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.

As an Engineering Director – Helix Virtualization Platform on our team, you’ll lead a multi‑team engineering organization responsible for the delivery, evolution, and quality of the Helix Virtualization Platform (HVP) and adjacent certified products used in ADG markets. You will be accountable for execution, staffing, technical oversight, and alignment with product, customer, and revenue commitments.

In your daily job you will:

• Lead and manage an organization of approximately 60+ software engineers and engineering managers across multiple sites.
• Own execution and delivery of the HVP product roadmap, including safety‑certified capabilities.
• Own resource allocation, headcount growth, and alignment of engineering capacity to roadmap and revenue commitments.
• Own delivery predictability and quality metrics, and participate in safety, security, and certification audits.
• Identify and manage technical, schedule, and certification risks, driving mitigation and escalation as required.
• Champion a strong safety culture and ensure delivery of mission‑ and safety‑critical software on time and to specification.
• Ensure compliance with applicable standards such as DO‑178C, ISO 26262, and IEC 61508.
• Operate in secure engineering environments and maintain compliance with strict cybersecurity, data handling, and access control requirements.
• Provide technical leadership in embedded systems, RTOS, and virtualization technologies.
• Lead teams practicing Dev Sec Ops , integrating security and compliance into development and delivery pipelines.
• Partner with Product Management to translate product strategy and customer requirements into actionable plans; collaborate with Services teams to support product customization while preserving platform integrity and certification objectives.
• Work with Sales and Customer Success to support strategic customer engagements and technical escalations.
• Develop engineering talent, leadership depth, and succession planning.

Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

• Strong experience leading large‑scale teams delivering embedded, safety‑critical, and platform software products.
• Demonstrated experience with safety certification standards such as DO‑178C, ISO 26262, and IEC 61508.
• Solid technical foundation in embedded RTOS, virtualization architectures, and system‑level design.
• Hands‑on programming experience with C and C++.
• Experience leading Dev Sec Ops  teams in regulated or secure environments.
• Ability to maintain compliance with strict cybersecurity requirements; familiarity with NIST SP 800‑171 is desirable.
• Proven effectiveness collaborating across Engineering, Product Management, Services, and customer‑facing teams.
• Experience working with globally distributed…