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Wind River seeks an outstanding Senior Ecosystem Solution Architect to join our new elite AI and Incubation team. This pivotal role demands a rare blend of deep technical knowledge, strategic/business insight, and exceptional communication skills. The ideal candidate will drive the definition and creation of a joint solution between Wind River and our partners in the EDGE AI domain. You will report directly to the Vice President of AI and Incubation and work closely with the rest of the Product Management team in building our AI and forward looking business. Travel will be required. This role is mainly about managing our partnerships both from a technical and business perspective. You will be the key Wind River contact and at the center of the partner engagement for our EDGE AI product portfolio. It is multi-dimensional in the following key areas; partner product solutioning in both the ideation/definition/creation of a joint go-to-market product, technical requirement definition/management, demo/POC definition/execution, targeting customer and joint customer opportunities that bring value to Wind River, defining and negotiating partner agreements, and general partner management. In addition, to EDGE AI products, you will position and provide support for Wind River’s portfolio from Wind River Edge products to Wind River cloud products as required within the AI and Incubation team. Your efforts will enable our partner to better sell solutions that include Wind River products and vice versa.
Job Responsibility:
Manage the partner relationship in all aspects including both technical and business requirements
Act as the primary technical expert and become the partner’s trusted advisor and the Wind River solutions expert
Design and architect sophisticated, scalable solutions to solve critical business challenges and drive value for our clients and Wind River
Understand clearly the use cases that are applicable to each target customer
Listen and be sensitive to our partner’s needs in terms of the joint solution
Balance their needs vs the value it’s bringing to the joint solution to our customer and Wind River
Exhibit leadership skills during customer requirements analysis and creating technical solutions as well as identifying potential business opportunities
Define, negotiate and execute partner agreements such as NDA’s, Contracts, Pricing, Customer agreements, etc.
Provide consistent market feedback to Wind River
Remove technical barriers for Wind River solutions
Requirements:
10-12+ years of software development or solutions architecting experience in embedded software and cloud technologies at the edge
Strong background in operating systems (enterprise Linux, embedded Linux, RTOS, mixed-criticality) including boot, kernel, drivers, and performance tuning
Knowledge of middleware and runtimes supporting Edge AI (e.g., container runtimes Docker, containerd, Kubernetes / K3s / MicroK8s at the edge, AI runtimes and accelerators (TensorRT, OpenVINO, ONNX Runtime, vendor SDKs))
Ability to design end-to-end Edge AI solutions spanning data ingestion, model lifecycle, deployment, runtime, and operations
Hands-on understanding of AI frameworks and model formats (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX)
Proven ability to lead customer-facing technical engagements, including discovery workshops, executive briefings, and architecture reviews
Skilled at eliciting business objectives, operational constraints, and success criteria, then translating them into viable Edge AI architectures
Comfortable running meetings end-to-end with stakeholders ranging from developers to C-suite executives
Trusted technical advisor capable of aligning AI initiatives with business value, ROI, and long-term platform strategy
Ability to differentiate solutions competitively through architecture, performance, security, and lifecycle value
Experience creating and delivering technical presentations, demonstrations, proofs of concept (POC), reference architectures, whitepapers, blogs, and conference talks
Able to work independently in partner and end customer locations/labs