QNX Quality Manager

BlackBerry Inc.; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 112,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

VIP bonus program

Comprehensive benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

BlackBerry is seeking an experienced Quality/System lead for QNX who will drive conformity across ISO 9001, ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434 and related frameworks. You will partner with engineering to embed quality into product development and ensure audit readiness.

You will identify gaps, coordinate CAPAs, and maintain documentation while building strong cross‑functional relationships to meet certification goals and customer expectations.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years in embedded software environments.
• Experience in safety-critical industries (automotive, rail, medical, aerospace).
• Exposure to ISO 9001, ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, or similar.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality systems compliance for QNX QMS and CSMS.
• Drive continuous improvement across engineering and product teams.
• Support certification readiness for standards such as ISO 9001, 26262, 21434.
• Identify gaps, assess risks, and drive corrective actions.
• Maintain evidence packages and audit documentation.
• Collaborate with certification bodies and customers.

Skills

Embedded software

Quality leadership

Audit readiness

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

ISO 26262

ISO 9001

ISO/SAE 21434

ASPICE

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

JAMA

Jira

GitHub/GitLab

Confluence

Job description

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.

What you’ll do

• Quality Systems & Compliance Leadership Partner on the continual improvement of the QNX QMS and CSMS toward meeting quality objectives and maintaining certification to ISO 9001 and ISO/SAE 21434.
• Drive continuous improvement quality initiatives and champion a quality and safety culture across engineering and product development teams.
• Contribute to the evolution and enhancement of QNX quality processes, templates, methodologies, and compliance frameworks.
• Apply expertise across multiple industry standards including ISO 9001, ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, IEC 61508, IEC 62304, and ASPICE to support certification readiness and regulatory compliance.
• Identify compliance gaps, assess risks, and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensure process consistency, traceability, and evidence generation throughout the product lifecycle.
• Stay current with emerging standards, regulations, and industry best practices affecting safety-critical and cybersecurity-focused software development.
• Audit & Certification Activities Plan, execute, and document quality audits, gap analyses, and process reviews.
• Support certification readiness initiatives across safety, cybersecurity, and quality domains.
• Maintain compliance evidence packages and audit documentation required for internal and external assessments.
• Support interactions with certification bodies, regulatory organizations, customers, and external auditors.
• Technical Leadership & Collaboration Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering teams on standards interpretation, audit readiness, process compliance, and certification requirements.
• Build strong cross‑functional relationships that align quality objectives with technical and business goals.
• Participate in customer‑facing audits including questionnaire responses, supplier engagements, and quality reviews.
• Contribute to quality strategy discussions, process governance, and product lifecycle initiatives across the organization.

What you’ll have

• Experience as an embedded software project manager or embedded software developer or quality engineer or internal auditor or process engineer with a desire and ability to learn quality.
• Minimum 4-7 years’ experience in embedded software environments, ideally in safety-critical industries such as automotive, industrial automation, medical devices, aerospace, defense, or rail.
• Exposure to standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434 or similar.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, attention to detail, critical thinking, conflict resolution, problem solving and influencing skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Quality Management, Quality Systems Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical discipline
• Hands‑on experience implementing and maintaining compliance in one or more of the following: ISO 9001, ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, IEC 61508, IEC 62304, ASPICE, SEI-CMMI, DO-178C.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, configuration management, requirements management, traceability, and process quality assurance methodologies.
• Experience conducting internal and external audits and supporting certification activities.
• Previous software engineering experience spanning requirements, design, development, testing, or systems engineering.
• Experience with process modeling, quality measurement, and traceability.
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt certification and/or root cause analysis (RCA)/8D.
• Hands‑on experience with tools such as JAMA, Jira, GitHub/GitLab, and Confluence.
• ISO 9001 Lead Auditor certification.
• TÜV Functional Safety Engineer certification.
• Experience supporting cybersecurity management systems and compliance programs.

Why QNX?

Industry Leader: Be part of a company powering the next generation of critical embedded systems.

Impactful Work: Lead high-impact continuous improvement quality initiatives that influence growth and market positioning.

Innovation & Growth: Join a team that thrives on innovation and drives cutting‑edge solutions.

Happy and Collaborative Culture: Work with talented and passionate professionals across diverse functions.

Solutions Impact: Your work will shape offerings that define the future of industry and intelligent systems.

Join us and help ensure the software the world depends on never lets it down! #LI-KH1

Compensation

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
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.

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