Intern - RTOS development

ABOUT WIND RIVER

Within the Wind River Cloud team, we work with large-scale projects including Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack and fast-paced Open-Source technologies that are in high demand from our customers.

Wind River Cloud has adopted these technologies into the core of our product, which is driving us to find experienced and high-performing individuals that can learn and contribute to these full software stack solutions to fulfill the strict requirements of edge computing use cases from security to high availability.

The team delivers in the areas of configuration management, fault management and host management.? In addition, Wind River Cloud team is a leading contributor to the Open Source StarlingX cloud native project, to manage and maintain the critical infrastructure for highly distributed Edge solutions, primarily 5G.

Within the Wind River Cloud team, we work with large-scale projects including Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack and fast-paced Open-Source technologies that are in high demand from our customers.

Wind River Cloud has adopted these technologies into the core of our product, which is driving us to find experienced and high-performing individuals that can learn and contribute to these full software stack solutions to fulfill the strict requirements of edge computing use cases from security to high availability.

The team delivers in the areas of configuration management, fault management and host management.? In addition, Wind River Cloud team is a leading contributor to the Open Source StarlingX cloud native project, to manage and maintain the critical infrastructure for highly distributed Edge solutions, primarily 5G.

YOUR JOB

As an RTOS development engineer, you will contribute to the development of Wind River’s next-generation real-time operating system. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers to design, implement, and validate core OS functionality, while growing your expertise in real-time systems.

This role is ideal for candidates with a strong academic foundation in operating systems—particularly real-time systems—and hands-on experience from demanding courses or projects (e.g., building kernels, schedulers, or synchronization primitives).

In your daily work you will

• Contribute to the design and implementation of OS components with guidance from senior engineers
• Develop high-quality, maintainable code and tests within a CI/CD and agile environment
• Debug and resolve issues found during testing or reported by internal teams
• Write clear technical documentation for designs and implementations
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including hardware, tools, and verification
• Learn and apply best practices in real-time, safety-critical software development

Key Skills and Competencies for succeeding in this role

• Working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, System Design or related field
• 0–3 years of relevant experience , including internships, co-ops, or academic project work
• Knowledge of operating systems concepts , such as:
• Threads and scheduling (including real-time scheduling)
• Synchronization (mutex, semaphores, queues)
• Memory management and virtual memory
• Interrupts and concurrency
• Programming skills in C
• Hands-on experience implementing OS-level concepts , for example through:
• A real-time systems course (e.g., University of Waterloo CS452 or equivalent)
• Robotics or other OS systems projects
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix development environments
• Experience with Git or similar version control systems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Eagerness to learn and grow in a collaborative environment