Full-Time

Senior Safety Expert

Certified Software

Posted on 9/11/2025

Wind River

Wind River

1,001-5,000 employees

Real-time OS and embedded software solutions

No salary listed

Kanata, Ottawa, ON, Canada

In Person

US Top Secret Clearance Required

Category
Engineering Management (1)
Requirements
  • Solid experience with safety-critical software development and automotive software design, following plans & procedures to comply with functional safety standards (e.g. ISO 26262, IEC 61508, Automotive SPICE), completed or greatly contributed to release of an ASIL C or higher project
  • Responsible for leading development, implementation, maintenance of functional safety processes
  • Perform reviews and identified non-compliance / gaps, from a review checklist and from sheer knowledge of a topic
  • Develop and document safety requirements collaborated with other teams to ensure safety requirements are met
  • Troubleshoot and resolve safety-related issues
  • Analyze safety-critical software development, automotive system design, and functional safety assessments
  • Train, Mentor & Coordinate safety lifecycle activities, for ASIL C or higher projects, with other disciplines (e.g. Product, System, HW, SW, V&V, CM, QA, Security…), providing technical support and guidance to team members
  • This important role requires a thorough understanding of functional safety standards (e.g. ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and Automotive SPICE) and their application to automotive products and systems, as well as the ability to develop and implement safety-critical design processes
  • 12+ years total experience in safety critical systems, with 6+ years in safety engineering for planning, coordinating and supporting or performing safety lifecycle activities
  • Ability to lead other disciplines in the completion of safety lifecycle activities
  • Advanced knowledge of the concepts and importance of baselines, traceability, reproducibility
  • Advanced knowledge of safety analysis methodologies (e.g. FTA, FMEA, STPA), especially in a SW context
  • Ability to plan and estimate activities and deliverables of the safety lifecycle
  • Must be legally able to work in Canada without requirement for any type of visa sponsorship or transfer now AND any time in the future.
Responsibilities
  • Lead development, implementation, maintenance of functional safety processes and safety lifecycle activities for Wind River safety-critical products and projects
  • Plan, develop, and maintain safety plans and processes to support execution of safety lifecycle activities for Wind River’s safety critical products
  • Train, mentor and coordinate safety lifecycle activities with other disciplines (e.g. Product, System, HW, SW, V&V, CM, QA, Security) providing technical support and guidance
  • Define requirements or suggest improvements to Wind River’s development lifecycle process and tools to support safety activities
  • Perform reviews and identify non-compliance or gaps from review checklists and knowledge of safety topics
  • Develop and document safety requirements in collaboration with other teams to ensure safety requirements are met
  • Troubleshoot and resolve safety-related issues
  • Analyze safety-critical software development, automotive system design, and functional safety assessments
  • Lead other disciplines in completion of safety lifecycle activities for ASIL C or higher projects
  • Possess thorough understanding of safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508, Automotive SPICE) and apply to automotive products and systems
  • Plan and estimate activities and deliverables of the safety lifecycle
Desired Qualifications
  • Assets: Within a safety-critical environment you’ve created/updated plans & procedures to comply to functional safety standards (e.g. ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and Automotive SPICE)
  • Assets: Collaborated with software tools and process development teams and with stakeholders in the wider engineering organization.
  • Assets: Created procedures for software tools and infrastructure configuration and use
  • Assets: Experience using Process, Safety lifecycle and analysis tools (e.g. Stages, Excel, Medini Analyze, Fault Tree+, PLATO) ALM and requirements tools such as Polarion, CodeBeamer, Jama, Doors, Jira / Confluence, git
  • Assets: Experience with Software tools and code libraries qualification
  • Assets: CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitLabCI, Azure Pipelines, CircleCI, TeamCity…) - Knowledge of VxWorks or other embedded RTOS

Wind River provides embedded systems software platforms for mission-critical industries. Its products include VxWorks RTOS for deterministic real-time performance, Wind River Linux as a configurable Linux-based OS, plus development tools and compilers to build and optimize software, with security updates and services. It differentiates itself with an end-to-end embedded software stack and a long track record in aerospace/defense, emphasizing safety, security, and bounded performance. Its goal is to help customers design, deploy, and maintain reliable, secure embedded systems for critical applications.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$5.2B

Headquarters

Alameda, California

Founded

1981

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What believers are saying

  • Vodafone AI-RAN partnership cuts anomaly detection from hours to minutes using Cloud Platform.
  • AMD unifies O-RAN and AI-RAN on EPYC CPUs, slashing telco infrastructure costs.
  • ServiceNow integration delivers six-nines private cloud for regulated industries.

What critics are saying

  • Aptiv divests Wind River post-Feb 2026 Emerson deal, attracting low-synergy buyers.
  • Red Hat OpenShift displaces Studio Operator in Verizon vRAN within 12 months.
  • CHERI RISC-V VxWorks certification delays past 2027 lose Green Hills contracts.

What makes Wind River unique

  • VxWorks RTOS leads with first commercial RISC-V support for mission-critical systems.
  • Wind River Cloud Platform tops Omdia rankings for Open vRAN infrastructure.
  • Studio Operator enables proven multi-vendor vRAN at scale with Verizon.

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Company News

DataCenterNews
Mar 16th, 2026
Wind River and Vodafone test AI-RAN automation to manage growing Open RAN complexity

Wind River and Vodafone test AI-RAN automation to manage growing Open RAN complexity. Last updated: March 16, 2026 10:32 am Published March 16, 2026 Wind River and Vodafone introduced a collaboration to operationalize AI-RAN for Open RAN Networks showcased at MWC Barcelona 2026 earlier this month. AI-RAN transforms the anomaly detection from hours lengthy to minutes, permitting for autonomous community operation based mostly on reside community conduct. "Open RAN basically modifications how networks are constructed; AI-RAN modifications how they're operated," remarked Paul Miller, CTO, Wind River. "Operators are shifting from static infrastructure to dynamic, software-defined environments the place complexity grows quicker than human operators can handle. Our collaboration with Vodafone demonstrates how AI-RAN can flip operational information into steady intelligence, enabling networks that detect points earlier, adapt quicker, and transfer nearer to autonomous operation. Collectively, we're displaying how AI-RAN can change into the operational spine of next-generation telecom infrastructure." The answer is powered by Vodafone's O-Cloud platform mixed with its 5G community, and Wind River Cloud Platform for real-time analytics and predictive decision of points. The partnership is geared to chop operational bills, improve service reliability, and deal with the expansion of bigger and distributed networks with out comparable will increase in human capital. AI-RAN replaces reactive troubleshooting with proactive and autonomous community administration, optimizing telecom infrastructure efficiency. The joint answer demonstrates that AI-RAN is now a deployable functionality, addressing the telecom business's want for operational scalability. Late final yr Vodafone expanded Open RAN rollout in Europe with Wind River's cloud platform. Associated. 5G networks | AI-RAN | community automation | Open RAN | telecom infrastructure | Vodafone | Wind River

Business Wire
Mar 2nd, 2026
Wind River and AMD launch unified O-RAN and AI-RAN platform to cut infrastructure costs

Wind River, an Aptiv company, is collaborating with AMD to deliver what it claims is the industry's first commercially available platform unifying open radio access network functions and AI-powered RAN workloads on shared hardware. The solution combines AMD EPYC CPUs with Wind River Cloud Platform. The platform addresses operators' infrastructure challenges by enabling virtualized RAN functions and AI inference to run side by side, eliminating the need for separate systems that can double capital costs. It supports real-time AI capabilities including traffic prediction, anomaly detection and energy optimisation at the network edge. The jointly engineered solution features automated lifecycle management across thousands of distributed sites and allows operators to add AI capabilities without hardware replacement. Live demonstrations are available at MWC Barcelona 2026.

Business Wire
Feb 27th, 2026
Wind River and Vodafone demonstrate AI-RAN operations for Open RAN networks

Wind River and Vodafone are collaborating to operationalise AI-RAN for Open RAN networks, with the joint solution being showcased at MWC Barcelona from 2–5 March. The solution continuously ingests telemetry streams across RAN and cloud layers, using AI models to detect deviations, predict issues and guide remediation before customer experience is affected. Built on Vodafone's 5G network and Wind River Cloud Platform with Wind River Analytics, it processes over 70TB of network data weekly. The technology reduces anomaly detection time from hours to minutes and enables operators to manage larger Open RAN networks without proportional increases in operational costs. The collaboration demonstrates AI-RAN's shift from future concept to deployable operational capability for autonomous network management.

TelecomTV
Jan 21st, 2026
Intel's and Wind River's roles in Vodafone's European Open RAN rollout

Intel's and Wind River's roles in Vodafone's European Open RAN rollout. Jan 21, 2026 Embed Transcript Sponsored by Cristina Rodriguez, Intel Corporation & Nastasi Karaiskos, Wind River. In this interview from Fyuz 2025 in Dublin, Cristina Rodriguez of Intel and Nastasi Karaiskos of Wind River share their companies' roles in Vodafone's European Open RAN rollout. They discuss the significance of deploying open and virtualised network architectures, the impact of Intel's Xeon 6 system-on-chip (SoC) with built-in AI, and Wind River's focus on network optimisation and sustainability. Featuring: * Cristina Rodriguez, VP Network & Edge Group, Intel Corporation * Nastasi Karaiskos, VP Global Sales, Telecom, Wind River Recorded November 2025

Telematics Wire
Nov 13th, 2025
Wind River & Hyundai Rotem partner to transform rail software development

Wind River & Hyundai Rotem partner to transform rail software development. Press Release, 13 November 2025 Wind River, a leader in edge-software for mission-critical systems, has announced a significant collaboration with Hyundai Rotem aimed at modernising its rail-system development environment. Over decades of partnership (Hyundai Rotem has been a Wind River - VxWorks customer for around 30 years), the two firms are now moving toward a cloud-native, software-defined approach that promises faster development, improved automation and increased agility. Under the deal, Hyundai Rotem will adopt Wind River's Studio Developer platform and Cloud Platform infrastructure, enabling use of modern DevOps practices like continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and cloud-native deployment. Meanwhile, Wind River's real-time operating system VxWorks will continue to power Hyundai Rotem's safety-certified signalling and train-control systems. This hybrid architecture supports both legacy safety workloads and newer, agile applications - critical in the transportation environment where reliability and security are non-negotiable. The move signals Hyundai Rotem's shift toward software-defined rail systems - a transformation expected to reduce time-to-market, cut costs and bolster innovation across its rail-vehicle and smart-logistics portfolios. At the same time, Wind River gains a strong reference in rail and smart-mobility, reinforcing its position in the intelligent-transportation ecosystem.

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