Senior Partner Solutions Architect

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.  
  
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY   

As a Senior Partner Solutions Architect for the Ready for Wind River program, you are the technical heartbeat of our partner ecosystem. You will ensure that third-party software (AI models, security agents, CNFs) are seamlessly integrated, validated, and optimized for Wind River Studio. You’ll be responsible for working independently to set and achieve objectives tied to functional targets and goals. The role mentors and guides team members, coordinates project activities, and applies independent judgment to deliver creative solutions to complex partner challenges. 
 

How you will contribute

• Set and achieve partner enablement objectives aligned with Wind River’s strategy. 

• Technical Validation Leadership: Lead the technical certification process for the R4WR program, defining the test suites and KPIs that partners must meet to achieve "Ready" status. 

• Lead technical co-creation activities, including workshops and pilot projects. 

• Design innovative technical solutions addressing partner-specific challenges. 

• Automation & Tooling: Design and maintain automated "Validation Factories" using Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines to streamline partner onboarding. 

• Ecosystem Roadmapping: Collaborate with Product Management to identify gaps in our partner stack and recruit new technology partners to fill those needs. 

• Evangelism: Author white papers, reference architectures, and technical blogs demonstrating the "Power of Better Together" for complex use cases like Autonomous Driving or 5G vRAN. 

Your background

• Experience: 10+ years in Systems Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or Field Engineering. 

• Virtualization & Orchestration: 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes, KVM, and StarlingX. Deep understanding of CNCF projects is a must. 

• Knowledge and experience working with FV (Network Functions Virtualization) , SDN (Software Defined Networking) , OSS/BSS (Operational Support System / Business Support System) , Cloud-native, applications and architectures , 5G Core , 5G RAN 

• Scripting & Automation: Expert level in Python and Ansible. 

• Hardware Knowledge: Familiarity with modern compute architectures (x86, ARM v9, RISC-V) and hardware acceleration (GPUs, FPGAs, DPUs). 

• Proficiency in specifying and communicating requirements, architectures, designs and intent.  

• Container, virtualization, cloud computing or cloud-native architecture, development and automation. 

• Proficiency in Linux operation and administration. 

• Experience in software testing or CI/CD pipelines. 

• Experience in production Telco or Service Provider environments, either as a network operator or vendor. 

• The "Partner" Mindset: Ability to balance Wind River’s technical requirements with the business constraints of a partner. 

• Develop lasting relationships with key technical and business stakeholders  

• Manage customer satisfaction issues through escalation paths provided through Wind River’s support methods  

• Communication: Excellence in explaining complex low-level engineering concepts to both C-level executives and kernel developers. 

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