QNX Open Source Software Developer (New Graduate/Graduate)

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 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.

Purpose of the Role: The "QNX Everywhere" Initiative 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).

As an Open-Source Software Developer, you will play a pivotal role in this initiative. You will analyze, port, optimize, and upstream a wide range of open-source software — spanning core system utilities, networking middleware, IPC frameworks, middleware stacks, applications, AI frameworks, and bleeding-edge Physical AI & Robotics stacks. By bringing these technologies to QNX, you will enable developers globally to build safe, secure, and feature-rich embedded solutions without sacrificing the rich open-source ecosystem.

You will conduct:

• Broad 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).

• QNX Subsystem Integration: 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; adapt cross-compilation build systems (CMake, Meson, Bazel, Cargo, GN/Ninja) for QNX toolchains.

• Performance Optimization: Perform low-level profiling, memory footprint reduction, latency tuning, and performance optimization on embedded target hardware.

You will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• Strong 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., ROS2, OpenPI, MediaPipe, ONNX Runtime, PyTorch/ExecuTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV).

• Experience with GPU / Heterogeneous Compute stacks (NVIDIA CUDA/TensorRT, AMD ROCm, Vulkan Compute, OpenCL) on platforms like NVIDIA Thor/IGX or AMD silicon.

• 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.

• Active open-source contributions (GitHub/GitLab profile, upstream PRs, or patch submissions).

If you are ready to use your expertise to drive real innovation, we would love to hear from you! #LI-KH1

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Compensation Hiring Base Salary Range: $80,000.00 - $105,000.00

Please be advised that the compensation hiring range indicated herein is provided solely as a good-faith estimate of expected base compensation for the position. The actual compensation offered will be determined at the time of hire and is contingent upon multiple factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, demonstrated skills, and results of assessments conducted during the hiring process.

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.

Disclosure of Position Status: This is an active opening. We are seeking to fill this position immediately

Disclosure of Artificial Intelligence: We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) to screen, assess, or select applicants at any stage of our recruitment process. All applications are reviewed and evaluated by our hiring team.