Engineering Intern

Description

Position at Wind River

Associate Engineer / Intern – P1

Location: Walnut Creek, CA

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 missionssuch 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 sessionwith Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networksin the world with Vodafone.

The company has received industry recognitionfor 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

We are seeking a motivated and technically curious summer intern to join our team in developing QEMU support for Wind River’s VxWorks. This internship offers a hands-on opportunity to work at the intersection of virtualization, embedded systems, and real-time operating systems (RTOS), contributing to the enablement of automotive-grade simulation environments.

In your daily job you will:

• Extend QEMU by adding support for a new board specification tailored for VxWorks
• Design and implement virtual memory layout consistent with the target hardware architecture and RTOS requirements.
• Develop virtual serial port support to enable console I/O and debugging capabilities within QEMU.
• Integrate and validate the QEMU model by running a real-world VxWorks binary application.
• Document your work and present a demo showcasing the simulation of a simple RTOS application in QEMU.
• Gain experience in low-level system modeling and virtualization.
• Understand the basic architecture and boot flow of VxWorks.
• Learn how to simulate embedded platforms using QEMU.
• Develop skills in debugging and validating real-time systems in virtual environments.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Familiarity with C/C++ and Linux development environments.
• Basic understanding of operating systems and virtualization concepts.
• Interest in embedded systems and automotive software.
• Experience with QEMU or other hardware emulators preferred
• Exposure to RTOS concepts or VxWorks preferred
• Knowledge of serial communication protocols and memory mapping preferred

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.