Senior Engineer - BSP

Role overview

Senior Engineer - BSP at Aptiv

Responsibilities

• Support hardware bring-up and validation
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers
• Contribute to architecture and design decisions
• Drive technical improvements and best practices
• Lead technical initiatives and small projects
• Work with distributed teams across US, Romania, and India
• Contribute to team process improvements
• Work with hardware vendors and partners
• Configure device trees and hardware abstraction layers
• Design solutions for complex BSP problems
• Maintain compatibility across hardware platforms

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science , Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years of experience with embedded systems and hardware
• Experience with C/C++ programming in production systems
• Strong background in software development lifecycle using Linux.

Required skills

• Strong proficiency in C/C++ programming with Linux.
• Solid understanding of embedded systems and hardware
• Experience with embedded systems development
• Knowledge of build systems ( Yocto , Buildroot , or similar)
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
• Experience with version control (Git) and code review
• Understanding of software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum)
• Domain Knowledge
• Board support packages (BSP)
• Hardware enablement
• Device trees and hardware configuration
• Bootloaders (U-Boot, etc.)
• Hardware abstraction layers
• Embedded hardware interfaces
• Performance optimization

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Experience with Yocto Project
• Experience with hardware bring-up and validation
• Understanding of processor architectures (ARM, x86, etc.)
• Experience with device drivers
• Knowledge of bootloaders and boot processes
• Open source contributions
• Experience in automotive, aerospace, or industrial sectors
• “Windriver 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”
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• 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.

Employment details

• Location: Kundanahalli Village [Brookfield] [Karnātaka] [India]

About the employer

• ABOUT WIND RIVER
• 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.

Benefits

• 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.

Additional role details

• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• The Senior Engineer - Systems (Board Support Packages) provides technical expertise and leadership for developing and maintaining BSP components and configurations.
• Senior Engineers work independently on hardware enablement, support new platforms, and mentor junior engineers in BSP development.
• In your daily job you will:
• Development & Implementation
• Develop and maintain BSP components and configurations
• Enable new hardware platforms and processors
• Write high-quality, maintainable code following team standards
• Debug and resolve complex BSP-related issues
• Optimize BSP performance and compatibility
• Technical Leadership
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
• Team Collaboration
• Collaborate effectively with team members and cross-functional partners
• Share knowledge through documentation and technical discussions
• Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and retrospectives
• Board Support Packages Specific
• Guide technical direction for BSP components
• Required Competencies: