QNX Senior Security Researcher
BlackBerry4 months ago
Ottawa, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$109k - $159k/yr
Responsibilities
- Hunt for vulnerabilities across QNX products and embedded software components.
- Perform penetration testing and offensive security assessments against embedded platforms.
- Design, develop, and execute large-scale fuzzing campaigns.
- Investigate crashes and software defects to assess exploitability and security impact.
- Conduct root-cause analysis and exploit development.
- Use AI/ML-assisted techniques to accelerate vulnerability discovery and security analysis.
- Build automated security testing frameworks, fuzzers, scanners, and exploit-validation pipelines.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to reproduce, triage, and remediate vulnerabilities.
- Develop tools, methodologies, and research to strengthen security posture.
- Research emerging threats and vulnerability classes affecting embedded operating systems.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience in vulnerability research, penetration testing, exploit development, or offensive security.
- Practical experience with fuzzing frameworks such as AFL or libFuzzer.
- Strong understanding of memory management, process isolation, POSIX APIs, concurrency, and embedded systems concepts.
- Familiarity with use-after-free, heap corruption, buffer overflow, race condition, privilege escalation, and logic vulnerabilities.
- Strong programming skills in C, C++, and Python.
- Experience developing automation and tooling for security testing or vulnerability discovery.
- Ability to independently drive research initiatives from concept through discovery and validation.
- Preferred experience applying AI or machine learning to security research or vulnerability detection.
- Preferred knowledge of automotive cybersecurity, embedded systems, or QNX-based platforms.
- Preferred familiarity with ISO/SAE 21434 or secure software development practices.
- Preferred reverse-engineering experience with IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, or similar frameworks.
- Preferred experience with operating systems, kernels, drivers, or low-level system software.
Benefits
- Base compensation is listed at $108,750.00-$158,750.00 annually.
- Eligibility for the BlackBerry Variable Incentive Pay program.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance for eligible employees.
- Retirement benefits, employee share purchase program, and paid time off for eligible employees.
- Regular full-time position with 40 scheduled hours per week.
- The position is being filled immediately.
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry builds cybersecurity, secure communications, and embedded software, including the QNX real-time operating system for safety-critical devices and software-defined vehicles. It sells enterprise subscriptions and support services, licenses QNX to automakers and device makers, and offers UEM, threat prevention, and secure messaging for governments and regulated industries. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, BlackBerry is publicly traded (NYSE: BB, TSX: BB); QNX powers hundreds of millions of vehicles worldwide.