India’s embedded
software engineering talent join global BlackBerry QNX developer network to
accelerate IoT innovation
Hyderabad – February 21, 2024 – BlackBerry
Limited today officially opened the new ‘BlackBerry IoT Center of Excellence,
Engineering and Innovation’ in Hyderabad, a world-class facility designed to
advance mission-critical embedded software development for IoT industries. At
an opening ceremony today in Hyderabad, the BlackBerry IoT division revealed
its new facility is now fully operational, hosting some of India’s best and
brightest software engineers and creating the Asia Pacific hub for the
BlackBerry QNX global developer network.
The
BlackBerry IoT CoE in Hyderabad has been established to help the business scale
up operations to meet growing industry demand for its embedded software
solutions and services and invest in India’s skilled IoT innovators. BlackBerry
recruited locally in the Hyderabad region and from across the country, offering
new career opportunities for talented candidates that want to build the next
generation of software-defined-vehicles (SDVs) and advance innovation in medical,
industrial control systems and robotics.
Mattias Eriksson, President of BlackBerry IoT, says, “India is an important market for our customers in automotive and
other IoT sectors, and widely recognized as a nation of talented software
engineers with a thriving innovation ecosystem. We are proud to open the doors
to the BlackBerry IoT Center of Excellence, Engineering and Innovation in
Hyderabad today, both to enhance product and service delivery for our customers
and partners and create opportunities for India’s talented software engineers
in an increasingly complex and software-defined era for embedded IoT
development.”
After Canada, the India CoE is now the second
largest for the BlackBerry IoT division globally, hosting teams of embedded
software engineers across a wide range of technology positions and skill sets,
including senior management, technical project management, product engineering,
cloud software development, integration, and service delivery. Those
teams are now actively working with the company’s industry-leading BlackBerry® QNX®
software, which is trusted for unparalleled safety,
security and reliability in critical industries and embedded in more than 235
million vehicles on the road today.
This news closely follows several significant
milestones for BlackBerry IoT, all designed to help advance software-designed
manufacturing, increase access to software development tools and upskill IoT
engineers. This includes the recent general availability of its QNX®
Software Development Platform (SDP) 8.0,
providing automakers and IoT system developers with a more scalable and
high-performance platform for embedded architectures, and QNX®
Sound, enabling
audio designers and engineers to create new in-vehicle sound experiences.
In addition, BlackBerry IoT is also bringing
its new initiative, QNX®
Everywhere, to India. By democratizing access for
students, partners and engineers to QNX development tools, BlackBerry aims to
grow the pool of highly-skilled embedded systems’ developers familiar with the
platform across India and around the world. The initiative will commence
in early 2024, with further details to be available on the BlackBerry.com
website in the coming weeks.
For more information on open roles with
BlackBerry IoT in Hyderabad, please visit here. To learn more about BlackBerry QNX, please visit
BlackBerry.QNX.com and follow @BlackBerry.
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry provides intelligent security
software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The
company secures more than 500M endpoints including over 235M vehicles. 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.
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