Job Overview

Worker Sub-Type: Regular Job Description: QNX enhances the human experience and amplifies technology‑driven industries, providing a trusted foundation for software‑defined businesses to thrive. The business leads the way in delivering safe and secure operating systems, hypervisors, middleware, solutions, and development tools, along with support and services delivered by trusted embedded software experts. With a focus on reducing hardware dependency and increasing efficiency, QNX empowers organizations to unlock new possibilities in areas such as high‑performance computing at the edge, standards‑based virtualization technologies, and cloud enablement. QNX® technology has been deployed in the world’s most critical embedded systems, including more than 275million vehicles on the road today. QNX® software is trusted across industries including automotive, medical devices, industrial controls, robotics, commercial vehicles, rail, and aerospace and defense. If you’re passionate about open ecosystems, upstream collaboration, and bringing modern open‑source technologies into places they’ve never been before, this role gives you a rare chance: shaping how open‑source runs on one of the world’s most trusted real‑time operating systems.

Responsibilities

- Porting & optimizing open‑source projects for the QNX RTOS, ensuring performance, reliability, and real‑time behavior.
- Designing integration layers, build systems, and CI/CD workflows for open‑source components.
- Integrating OSS with QNX subsystems such as graphics, networking, USB, audio, and sensors.
- Upstreaming QNX‑relevant changes and collaborating directly with open‑source communities.




- Leading & mentoring a team of talented open‑source engineers, providing technical direction and fostering growth.
- Driving project roadmaps, defining best practices, and championing open‑source adoption within QNX.
- Documenting processes & advocating for open‑source excellence across the company.

Qualifications

- Significant progressive embedded software experience, including in technical leadership/mentorship.
- Strong skills in C/C++ for embedded systems development & hands‑on RTOS development (QNX, Linux, or similar).
- Proven contributions to large open‑source projects.
- Deep understanding of embedded systems, hardware architectures, and cross‑compilation tool chains.
- Proficiency with Git, GDB, GCC, Make/CMake.
- Familiarity with open‑source licensing models & best practices relating to community engagement.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, fostering growth and accountability.
- Curiosity, enthusiasm, and interest in new technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

- Linux or Android internals experience.
- Experience in device driver development.
- Strong GCC/GDB knowledge.
- Experience with Agentic AI.

Benefits

BlackBerry employee benefits programs offer a wide range of benefits that support your physical,



financial and personal well‑being. BlackBerry remains committed to offering affordable benefits including coverage for medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, retirement, employee share purchase program and paid‑time‑off to those that meet the eligibility requirements.

Why Join QNX as a Technical Open Source Development Manager

- You get to upstream, not just consume.
- You will influence how open source evolves inside a real‑time, safety‑critical environment.
- You will work with a team that values transparency, collaboration, and community.
- You will shape the developer experience for thousands of engineers building on QNX.
- You will lead a group that is expanding and has strong executive support.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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📌 QNX Technical Open Source Development Manager (Ottawa)
🏢 BlackBerry
📍 Ottawa