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 like high-performance computing at the edge, standards-based virtualization technologies, and cloud enablement.

QNX® software is trusted across industries including automotive, medical devices, industrial controls, robotics, commercial vehicles, rail, and aerospace and defense. QNX is on a mission to compete directly with Linux as the premier, go-to operating system for embedded development worldwide. Through our QNX Everywhere initiative, we are building a rich, seamless open-source ecosystem that brings the vast array of open-source software currently enjoyed on Linux natively onto the QNX Real-Time Operating System (RTOS).

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Open-Source Porting & Integration: Analyze, port, build, and optimize open-source software across C, C++, Python, and Rust for the QNX RTOS. Projects span a wide variety of domains, including: System Runtimes: Node.js, GTK, SQLite, Boost.

Networking & Middleware: SOME/IP, MQTT, DDS, Zenoh.

Physical AI & Robotics: ROS2, OpenPI, Google MediaPipe, OpenCV, ONNX Runtime, PyTorch/ExecuTorch, TensorFlow.

Upstreaming & Community Leadership:



Work directly with upstream open-source communities and maintainers to integrate QNX build targets, patches, and CI configurations into mainstream repositories.

Hardware & Accelerator Enablement: Work with silicon partners to enable open-source software on diverse embedded platforms, including GPU/NPU acceleration blocks ( NVIDIA IGX Thor, AMD ROCm , Qualcomm, NXP). Integrate open-source projects with core QNX subsystems (graphics, networking, USB, audio, sensors, and multimedia).

Porting Layers & Toolchain Support: Develop OS-specific abstraction layers, shims, and porting libraries; Performance Optimization: Perform low-level profiling, memory footprint reduction, latency tuning, and performance optimization on embedded target hardware. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. Robust software development skills in C and C++ (C++14/17/20) and Python.

Proven experience with Linux/Unix development environments and cross-compilation toolchains (CMake, Meson, Ninja, Make). Solid understanding of operating system internals and POSIX APIs (pthreads, IPC, memory management, networking sockets). Excellent communication skills with an interest in collaborating within open-source developer communities.





Self-motivated with a passion for building software ecosystems.

Any of the below are considered a bonus: Experience porting, building, or maintaining large open-source projects or Linux distributions.

Experience or interest in Physical AI, Robotics, or Vision frameworks (e.g., Knowledge of embedded GUI engines (Qt, GTK), or automotive/industrial middleware (DDS, SOME/IP, MQTT). Hands-on experience with RTOS environments (QNX, VxWorks, FreeRTOS, Zephyr) or Linux kernel/driver internals. Familiarity with Rust and cargo build targets for embedded or systems programming.

Bonus: The BlackBerry Variable Incentive Pay (VIP) program is an organization-wide bonus incentive program which aims to reward full-time eligible employees for their contribution to BlackBerry’s success. VIP payments are made in addition to base salary and factor in company’s performance as a way for employees to share in BlackBerry’s achievements. The 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. We are seeking to fill this position immediately Disclosure of Artificial Intelligence: We donot use artificial intelligence (AI)to screen, assess, or select applicants at any stage of our recruitment process.

📌 Graduate Software Development Engineer (Canada)
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