Senior Specialist Solutions Architect

SalesWalnut Creek,CaliforniaSan Diego,CaliforniaBoston,United StatesWashington,District Of ColumbiaCupertino,California

In a world increasingly driven by software innovation, Wind River is pioneering the technologies to accelerate the digital transformation of our customers with a new generation of Mission Critical AI Systems in an AI-first world with the most demanding standards for safety, security, performance, and reliability. Success will be determined by our ability to innovate with velocity and sell at the solutions level.

This role requires managing the technical requirements of major networking and telecom operators. You will leverage the OpenInfra Foundation’s StarlingX project to deliver geographically distributed, high-performance, production-grade Kubernetes-based solutions for managing edge cloud infrastructure. Optimized for the network edge, the solutions you will support address service providers’ complex challenges of deploying and managing a physically distributed, cloud-native vRAN infrastructure.

You must have experience in software engineering with a strong focus on networking. You must be capable of understanding the customer’s problems and whiteboarding solutions using our product offerings and services. You should also know and have lived through commercial software project development cycles and have a good understanding of project management. Some amount of travel will be required.

Report directly to Director of Telecom Solutions Engineering. You will be an integral part of the telecom solutions engineering and architects’ team you will work with specialized telco Account Managers (AM)/Directors and strive to become the trusted technical advisor to our Telco Operators/CSPs by understanding their business needs and addressing those needs through Wind River’s products, services, and solutions. You will collaborate with the telco account team, engineering, product management, and other members of the solutions engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Manage all technical needs of assigned Telecom Operator account utilizing all available resources.
• Serve as a single technical point of contact, and become the customer’s trusted advisor and the Wind River solutions expert.
• Listen to customers’ needs, then Architect, Develop, and deliver Proof of Concepts, Demos, and Presentations.
• Understand the customer use cases and help develop part of the POC or Demo.
• Exhibit leadership skills during customer requirements analysis and creating technical solutions as well as identifying potential business opportunities.
• Understanding and contributing to relevant open-source standards and community projects is a must. Participation in open-source projects will be based on business needs.
• Provide consistent market feedback to Wind River.
• Remove technical barriers for Wind River solutions.
• Increase Wind River's market share with each customer.

ABOUT YOU

Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success

• Be hands‑on in the development of customer proof of concepts (PoCs), extending product features, and testing code.
• Experience in open‑source projects such as StarlingX, Kubernetes, O‑RAN SC, Nephio, etc… is a benefit. However, the ability and desire to contribute to these projects while representing the company is a must.
• Experience explaining technical concepts to large audience, comfort, and confidence in front of customers.
• Able to work independently in Customer location/Labs.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate should have 12+ years of software development or solutions architecting experience in the following areas:

• Working/functional knowledge of network stacks, switching, routing, etc.
• Strong knowledge of wireless/cellular telecom, and 5G edge deployments.
• Expertise in virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, orchestration, OpenStack, and cloud‑native technologies.
• Exposure to SDN concepts, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and ETSI-MANO.
• Linux background covering deployment, image build, application, and kernel development.
• Adept at various programming languages: scripting languages like Python, Perl, etc. C++/C are better to have.
• Must have, English language skills, enabling business discussion/dialogue
• Travel at short notice availability required up to 25%

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Birthday and Volunteer Time off
• Competitive Benefits Package
• Life and Disease Insurance
• Annual Medical Check-up
• Selective Working Hour
• Employee Assistance Program

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