Director Engineering - Certifications
Yesterday• Troy, MI
Director Engineering - Automotive Software Safety Certification
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.
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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.
What You’ll Do
Wind River Systems is seeking an experienced Director of Engineering for a position researching, prototyping, developing, deploying, and maintaining future generations of automotive software safety certification processes and tools.
These tools & processes will form a critical offering to speed the development of cloud and embedded connected intelligent systems. The overall solution will cover avionics systems, autonomous cars, warehouse robots, medical devices, and rail.
The successful candidate will report to the VP of Realtime Systems and will lead and build a highly skilled development team delivering the internal and external tools, at a cloud-scale, and process across the complete lifecycle of certified products.
A blend of technical skills and softer skills like business acumen, decision-making, and communication skills will be key to this position.
In the past you’ve:
- Led teams implementing processes and tools for safety-certified systems
- Succeeded in launching software-centric systems certified to IEC61508, or ISO26262.
- Worked extensively using cloud solutions to create embedded systems
- Conceived, devised, created, implemented, and operated development and operations systems
- Integrated class-leading FOSS tools, as well as proprietary software products
- Taken a developer experience approach to accelerate the development cycle
Responsibilities:
- Lead an emerging team for Wind River future certified products, such as hypervisors, RTOS, and associated development tools
- Work cross-functionally, and with partners to define the agile processes for future certification.
- Work cross-functionally, and with partners to define the cloud-scale accredited tools for future certification.
- Collaborate with Product, Marketing, Sales, Customers, and Partners to achieve disruptive results.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Leader and manager in a software engineering functional for functional safe software systems
- Expert leader in A&D, Automotive or Industrial for certification tools and processes
- Experience leading organizations operating with agile scrum, and with continuous integration
- Experience with cloud tools, on cloud platforms; like AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Expert in requirements management, certification processes, automated tested, and evidence generation
- Experience with certified embedded hypervisors, RTOS, and application development
- Experience in connected or autonomous systems development is a bonus
- Agile mindset and comfortable with ambiguity.
- 5+ years of experience of software safety certifications
- 10+ years working in the software development arena
- BSc / MSc degree (Computer Science, Computer/Electronic Engineering, or equivalent technical degree).
- BENEFITS - US
- Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row
- 100% Employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance*
- Flexible Time Off policy* + 12 observed Holidays
- 401K with company match
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Wellness Benefits through Unmind
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Client-provided location(s): Troy, MI
Job ID: oPR8wfw4
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2025-08-13T18:36:16
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