About QNX

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® technology has been deployed in the world’s most critical embedded systems, including more than 275 million 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.

What You’ll Do

Hunt for vulnerabilities across QNX products and embedded software components before attackers find them

Perform penetration testing and offensive security assessments against real-world embedded platforms

Design, develop, and execute large-scale fuzzing campaigns to uncover memory corruption defects, logic flaws, and emerging vulnerability classes

Investigate crashes and software defects to determine exploitability and security impact

Conduct root-cause analysis and exploit development to understand and demonstrate real-world attack scenarios

Leverage AI/ML-assisted techniques to accelerate vulnerability discovery and improve security analysis workflows

Build and evolve automated security testing frameworks, fuzzers, scanners, and exploit validation pipelines

Collaborate closely with engineering teams to reproduce, triage, and remediate vulnerabilities

Contribute tools, methodologies, and research that strengthen our overall security posture

Stay at the forefront of emerging threats and vulnerability research affecting modern embedded operating systems

What We’re Looking For

Hands-on experience in vulnerability research, penetration testing, exploit development, or offensive security

Practical experience with fuzzing frameworks such as AFL, libFuzzer, or similar technologies





Strong understanding of low-level software internals including memory management, process isolation, POSIX APIs, concurrency, and embedded systems concepts

Familiarity with common vulnerability classes such as: Use-after-free, Heap corruption, Buffer overflows, Race conditions, Privilege escalation, Logic vulnerabilities

Strong programming skills in C, C++, and Python

Experience developing automation and tooling for security testing or vulnerability discovery A passion for investigating complex systems and finding weaknesses others overlook The ability to independently drive research initiatives from concept through discovery and validation

Bonus Points If You Have

Experience applying AI or machine learning techniques to security research or vulnerability detection

Knowledge of automotive cybersecurity, embedded systems, or QNX-based platforms

Familiarity with ISO/SAE 21434 or secure software development practices

Reverse engineering experience using tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, or similar frameworks

Experience working with operating systems, kernels, drivers, or low-level system software

Why You’ll Love This Role

This is an opportunity to spend your time exploring, researching, breaking, and improving the security of software that runs some of the most important systems in the world. You’ll have the freedom to:

Pursue challenging security research questions

Build new tools and automation frameworks

Experiment with emerging AI-assisted security techniques

Influence the security of products deployed at massive scale

Collaborate with world-class embedded engineers and security researchers

Turn curiosity into real-world impact

Compensation & Advantages

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Compensation Hiring Base Salary Range: $108,750.00 - $158,750.00

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.

Benefits: 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of BlackBerry to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship, status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

EEO Minorities/Females/Protected Veteran/Disabled BlackBerry strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the selection process.

Should you require an accommodation, please contact [email protected] or contact our HR department by calling 1-(phone hidden). We will reply to your request as soon as possible.

Company Overview

BlackBerry provides enterprises and governments the intelligent software and services to power the world around us. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, BlackBerry’s high-performance foundational software enables major automakers and industrial giants alike to unlock transformative applications, drive new revenue streams and launch innovative business models, all without sacrificing safety, security or reliability. And with our deep heritage in Secure Communications, BlackBerry delivers operational resiliency with a comprehensive, highly secure and extensively certified portfolio for mobile fortification, mission- critical communications and critical event management.

📌 QNX Senior Security Researcher (Montreal)
🏢 BlackBerry
📍 Montreal