**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 — and in recent 5G milestones — including the world's first successful 5G data session with Verizon and in 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**
We are seeking a new team member for our Studio AI team to deliver analytics products such as Digital Feedback Loop. You will contribute your strong technical aptitude in
**Who you will work with**:
This is a new senior - level role that will interact closely with globally distributed UI developers, back-end and edge developers, data engineers, architects, and stakeholders across the various Studio groups in Engineering. You will collaborate cross-functionally as needed with product managers, professional services, technologists, and customer-facing teams. You will report to a regional manager in the Studio AI directorate in Engineering.
**What you'll do / y**
**our responsibilities**:
You will be an essential technical contributor in delivering a sustainable, cloud-native, cloud-agnostic software ecosystem for our customers to integrate their RTOS devices with the cloud and leverage the benefits of Ai. Shared common architecture within several AI projects.
- Pair up with developers on your AI team to mentor and up-level them in knowledge and skills for how to effectively build quality (not limited to testing) into their own code.
- Participate in hiring, then mentoring, less-experienced SDETs as the team grows.
- Advise AI developers on how they can build testability into the software delivered by the team, and how to streamline the experiences of our customers' developers in creating and testing their code.
- Support integration and evolution of analytic models into the Studio Test Automation Framework to improve test case selection, test case prioritization, defect prediction, and other types of CI/CD intelligence.
**In this role, you will**
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- Comprehensive test strategy spanning all aspects of building quality into the platform, including use of reviews and static & dynamic analysis tools.
- Test implementation and automation spanning all development responsibilities for V&V (verification and validation: unit tests, feature tests, and some testing on performance, scalability, and security).
**Qualifications - MUST HAVE**:
- BSc _(or equivalent work experience)_ in Computer Science, Computer / Electrical / Software / Systems / Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research, Applied Math / Physics, or another STEM field.
- Advanced degrees (e.g., MSc, MBA, or PhD) are appreciated, but not required.
- 5+ years working in software development arena, with 4+ years in a test-focused role _(career gaps are ok; life happens!)_
- Programming skills in at least one higher-level language _(_e.g., Python, C/C++_)_ _and SQL.
- Ability and experience to 'think like a tester' and to put yourself into your users' shoes:
- knowing how to test to find all the ways it doesn't work (well), vs. testing to show that it does work in a happy path scenario.
- understanding the key personas and user journeys for the software, and how to evaluate both functionality and architectural qualities from the user's perspective.
- Exceptional, inclusive, collaborative team player comfortable with working in diverse, distributed agile environments and pairing with developers.
- Self-managed, fast learner with the desire and ability to master new technologies.
- Blend of technical expertise and soft skills, including effective & flexible communication skills in English.
**Core Competencies and Demonstrated Success**
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**or all** of these:
- Strong understanding
