Member of Technical Staff

Description

Position at Wind River

Member of Technical Staff – Technical Support 

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.   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. 

YOUR ROLE

If you're a curious and collaborative engineer, someone excited about tackling hard problems and finding innovative solutions, you will love being part of our group.  Wind River Systems products include Ai/ ML suites which assists with digital transformation, you are expected to be able to use and support these suites.   The team you will represent is pivotal to the success of Wind River as the market leader in the Global edge compute OS market and to accelerate the digital transformation of our customers with a new generation of Mission Critical AI Systems. The focus of this role is to help the customer who use Wind River Systems Products (on-prem and SaaS) to develop cutting-edge IoT and embedded system devices that will enable the next generation of technology user experiences.  Our engineers are driven by a desire to protect mission-critical and safety-critical systems.  You will need to be sharp and self-driven to jump into our labs/ reference environment and duplicate customer environments, systems, and devices.  You will master skills in a wide range of Wind River Systems and other Cloud tools & technologies such as Hypervisor, IDEs, compilers, Dockers/ Container, Kubernetes, Jenkins etc., to understand customer setups, anticipate or investigate possible root causes, and provide high-quality solutions.  This position works closely with end-users, stakeholders, and developers within Wind River customer support operations to assess, troubleshoot, and solve complex multi-layered issues (hardware, software and everything in between As Member of Technical Staff – Technical Support on our team, you'll:

• Support customers who are encountering problems on Wind River's products. 
• Communicate effectively with customers and other stockholders to resolve their problems. 
• Handle customer and defect escalations. 
• Document customer issues and resolutions accurately and thoroughly. 
• Develop technical content for online support site. 
• Participate in support process improvement activities. 
• Mentor local and global Customer Support Engineers. 
• Provide support and training to internal customers. 
• If needed, act as single point of contact (Premium Support Engineer) for Premium Support Customers. 
• Considered as expert in some areas of products. 
• May need to provide on-site support and training to customers. 
• Proactively contribute content to the various Knowledge Bases within Wind River 
• Document Problems for Knowledge Base so that customers may solve similar problems on their own in the future. 
• Be available for after-hours duties in case if there is need for 24/7/365 coverage from the team. 

  Performance Measurement:

• CSAT, NPS, CES SLA compliance. 
• Achievement of Objective and Key Results (OKRs) as set by management. 
• Review of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). 
• Successful Escalation Handling. 
• Completion of Special projects. 

  HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE    Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

• Bachelor or Masters degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Math, Physics, or related technical field preferred 
• 6-8 years' experience in development and production operations supporting a cloud-based environment required with 3-5 years of customer facing role experience preferred. 
• Understanding of Cloud vs. on premise computing. Solid understanding of fundamentals of cloud computing. 
• Experience with Azure or Amazon AWS or similar SaaS solutions. 
• Experience in C/C++ and shell/ Python scripting.
• Familiarity with DevOps CI/CD, Dockers, Kubernetes and involved tools.  
• Experience in virtualization/containerization technologies like KVM, docker, containerd. Experience working with Xen-based virtualization as well as using and testing on Linux systems is a plus.
• Experience in standard opensource cloud technologies like Kuberenetes, openstack, helm, microservices etc. Candidate should be able to write templates to create K8s pods with custom requirements that runs micro-services.
• Basic understanding of Hardware and knowledge of BIOS and firmware upgrades etc. The candidate should really have an understanding of computing/networking architecture of a system.
• Experience in YAML, Gitlab, Jenkins or Tekton
• Understanding of Cloud-Native networking technologies like Calico, Istio, Prometheus is a plus
• Experience in VxWorks or Wind River Linux will be a plus
• Exceptional team player who works well in collaborative environment. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. 
• Self-managed, fast learner with the desire and ability to master new technologies. 
• Independent and should be able to handle multiple products simultaneously. 
• Provide assistance and training to less experienced CSEs.   
• Should be able to represent CSO in discussions with product Managers, engineering, sales etc.  
• Able to lead projects and make decisions independently. 

  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 #LI-AK2 #LI – REMOTE  

"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.  

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