QNX- Senior Systems Software Developer -Wifi/Networking at BlackBerry in Hyderabad, India

Job description

• 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 WiFi and Networks subsystem on both native and virtualized systems.
• 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

• Develop and maintain Wi-Fi and Networking driver components in an open-development environment.
• Create and document software specifications and designs that address the needs of QNX customers.
• Provide project estimates for requirement, design, implementation, and test efforts.
• Provide clear communication with development team members, technical leads, and management on project status, risks and approaches.
• Conduct design reviews, code reviews and unit test with technical peers.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve potentially complex problems and inadequacies in software.
• Liaises with customers regarding product performance, problems, and system design.
• Develop custom software solutions based on customer requirements.
• 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.

Requirements

• Proven experience in Wi-Fi driver development, including STA, AP, P2P, and multi-mode implementations.
• Thorough knowledge of at least one interface like PCIe/SDIO/USB
• Good knowledge of different authentication/encryption methods on Wi-Fi
• Understanding of wpa_supplicant and hostapd.
• Good understanding of Wi-Fi control and data paths.
• Programming languages expertise in C, Python
• Good knowledge in Linux OS internals.
• Exposure to QNX is a huge plus

Skills

Required

• Knowledge of PCIe/SDIO/USB interfaces
• Wi-Fi authentication/encryption methods
• wpa_supplicant and hostapd
• Wi-Fi control and data paths
• C programming
• Python programming
• Linux OS internals

Preferred

• Exposure to QNX