BlackBerry QNX- Senior Systems Software Developer (Open Source)

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Purpose of Job:

We are building an Open Source software development team, adding support for the QNX Real-Time Operating System to a large variety of Open Source Software components. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Developer (Open Source) to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will lead a team of developers working on our Open Source projects, collaborate with a global community of developers, and drive the adoption and growth of our open source initiatives.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide direction and mentor others in technical best practices
• Use technical expertise to resolve complex problems to meet company objectives
• Employ a goals-based approach to drive action towards a technical best practice fit
• Help to establish module and system level architecture at beginning of projects
• Make “best practice” recommendations for technical approach and process
• Author developer-level technical content, processes and procedures
• Advocate for open source within the company and the broader tech community.
• Troubleshooting and debugging embedded software issues
• Analyse, port, integrate, and optimize Open Source projects onto the QNX Embedded RTOS.
• Work with the Open Source community to upstream QNX relevant changes
• Integrate Open Source Software with different QNX subsystems, such as graphics, networking, USB, audio, sensors
• Integrate Open Source components onto different embedded computing platforms and work with silicon partners to integrate Open Source SW with their HW acceleration blocks
• Develop Open Source-specific porting layers
• Performance optimization, analysis, and tuning

Minimum Required Qualifications:

Education and Experience:

• 7+ years embedded software development, 2+ in a technical or lead role
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer / Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Postgraduate coursework will be counted as years of experience
• Strong software development skills using applicable programming languages (C, C++, Assembly)
• Experience developing, maintaining, and/or porting large open-source projects an asset
• Experience with Linux and/or Android internals
• RTOS development experience an asset
• Device driver experience on any platform is an asset
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated

Technical Requirements

• Must have strong C programming skills
• Must have excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Expertise in embedded development with demonstrated technical direction and mentoring
• Experience working on large projects with high levels of integration
• Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking/innovation, including the ability to identify and analyze technical problems
• Knowledge of GCC and GDB
• Hands on development experience using embedded operating systems (QNX, Linux, GreenHills, VXworks preferred)
• Exceptional time management and multi-tasking skills
• Proven ability to deal with sensitive matters with a degree of diplomacy, tact, and confidentiality
• Enthusiasm and a desire to learn about new technologies

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