Worker Sub-Type:
Regular
Job Description:
Are you the person we are looking for?
Product Engineering unit is focused on product opportunities as they relate to our markets and the growth of our product portfolio considering the future technology. As a successful candidate, you will be responsible for maintaining and augmenting the QNX Power Management Suspend-to-RAM.
Using your extensive knowledge of embedded systems and deep system knowledge, you will provide the technology leadership in all aspects of the software solutions from architecture, design, infrastructure costs, tech stack, scalability, reliability, availability, and performance to software quality. You will partner with product managers, architecture teams and customers to discover and deliver the solutions for the problems across multiple industries including our high-profile automotive Tier 1 accounts.
You must be someone with ideas and real passion for software delivered to maximize reuse, efficiency, and simplicity. Our customers count on us to convert awesome ideas into great products and services.
We thrive in a culture of innovation, technical depth and breadth, exploration and experimentation and provide great career growth opportunities. In return for your skills, expertise, and passion, we will provide you with an attractive compensation & bonus package with excellent benefits. Join us and you will become part of a team that is already leading the way and has even bigger plans for the future. What we are working on is truly ground-breaking!
Responsibilities
- Create and document software specifications and designs that address the needs of QNX customers.
- Unit test and debug implementations on all relevant target architectures for the project (ex. ARM and X86).
- Identify, analyze, and resolve potentially complex problems and inadequacies in software.
- Provide project estimates for requirement, design, implementation, and test efforts.
- Maintain an in-depth understanding of current software department approaches and standards through communication with development team members, technical leads, and management.
- Coach and mentor team on engineering best practices such as writing clean code, designing scalable, reliable, and performant software solutions, set and ensure compliance to software quality standards, safety standards etc.
Key qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or Engineering related field, or equivalent practical experience with a proven track record in technical roles
- 7+ years of driver development experience in C, C++ and assembly language.
- Solid understanding of Driver and low-level CPU programing of suspending and resuming drivers and CPU context
- Bootloader and board bring up skills such as u-boot/DRAM controller initialization / system clock configuration / GPIO & pinmux)
- Demonstrated knowledge of ACPI on x86 and PSCI for ARM processors
- Demonstrated knowledge of Secure Monitoring Calls (SMC)
- Expertise in troubleshooting and debugging (by instrumentation, trace logging, core-analysis, applying various tools to extract information, code-reviews, JTAG, etc.)
- Strong analytical skills and hands-on experience with the tools and techniques necessary to perform root cause analysis, and ability to come up with win-win solutions in complex business situations.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills to work with a diverse, global set of internal and external stakeholders.
- Challenging self and team, open to giving and receiving feedback and welcome diversity.
Additional skills
- Storage device driver development targeting block storage devices, SD/eMMC, AHCI/SATA or flash technology (NAND/NOR)
- High speed complex communication busses like PCIe, USB or SDIO
- Programming experience in a POSIX environment
- Familiarity with the QNX RTOS
Imagine what you could do at QNX! Our customers count on us to convert awesome ideas into great products and services. We have some of the brightest minds working on cutting edge platforms at QNX. Join us and you’ll become part of a team that is already leading the way and there is no telling what you could accomplish.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years of driver development experience in C, C++ and assembly language
- Solid understanding of Driver and low-level CPU programming
- Bootloader and board bring up skills
- Expertise in troubleshooting and debugging
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with Storage device driver development
- Familiarity with QNX RTOS
What We Do
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including 195M+ cars on the road today. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy solutions, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint management, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry’s vision is clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
