Senior Engineer - Embedded Developer - Kista
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 9, 2026.
Location: Kista
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.
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
The team you will represent is pivotal to our intelligent edge offerings in the Simulation platform that supports the definition, development and deployment of digital systems. Your contribution to this role will impact the success of Wind River’s Simulation offering in the embedded space where Simics is used for simulation and modeling of processor architectures, System on Chips, devices, boards and etc. The focus of this role is to work with an elite team of SIMICS developers within Intel and WR to enhance and sustain the SIMICS 7 product lines.
YOUR ROLE
Report directly to Manager of Engineering, Simics Platform. You will be an integral part of the highly skilled "Simics Simulation" engineering team developing and sustaining technologies for WR Simics offerings.
As a Senior Engineer on the team, you will collaborate with senor members of the team to develop and deliver capabilities that will enhance and improve the Simulation platforms. This position is an opportunity for anyone who wants to expand their experiences into simulation and embedded systems.
In your daily job you will:
- Developing Simics device models
- Integrating device models into virtual systems
- Bring-up virtual systems
- Scripting Simics to test specified scenarios
- Debugging and troubleshooting
- Resolving problems reported from both internal and external customers
HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE
Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:
Essential for this role:
- BS or MS in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent experience
- A minimum of 5years of embedded software development experience
- Experience with low level embedded software (e.g. BSPs and device driver) development, debugging/trouble shooting
- Strong C and Python programming skills. Be able to produce high quality code fast.
- A good grasp of computer architecture and familiarity with the major embedded hardware architecture (e.g. ARM/PPC/x86)
- Familiar with GIT and SVN.
- Good spoken and written English
- Honest and reliable
- Solid decision-making skills and judgment
- Quick learner, exhibit a level of self-motivation
- Should be a hands-on type of person with the initiative to dive in and do whatever is necessary to get the task completed
Desirable for this role (nice to have):
- Experience with simulation technologies is a bonus. Simics or QEMU is preferred, but other technologies such as SystemC is also a plus.
- Experience with VxWorks, Linux, U-Boot, UEFI, BIOS is a plus.
- Familiar with Agile methodology and processes is a plus.
- Familiar with using AI for development is a plus.
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