Senior Technical Professional

About This Role

CAE is a digital technology partner in defense, security and aviation, building solutions that improve safety, effectiveness and readiness.

CAE Vision:
Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.

CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE’s Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.

CAE Values:
Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.

Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work‑life balance.

A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe.

Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to take initiatives and make decisions.

Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!

This is a hands‑on technical software engineering position on the Integration Specialists (IS) team. The successful candidate will support integration and configuration of computational system architecture and system software for real‑time simulation applications.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Identify process and product improvements and implement agreed changes.
• Develop units through algorithms/techniques, documenting own work with test reports and functional specifications for small or medium complexity systems.
• Participate in code reviews, identify risks and escalation issues when necessary.
• Provide timely information to the project leader to assist with detailed project planning and coordination using project management methods and tools.
• Act as a resource for technical staff.
• Develop professional expertise, demonstrating conceptual knowledge and principles of your discipline. Receive moderate guidance and direction.
• Requirement: professional degree in a single discipline with typically 3 years of related experience.

• Design, integrate and test flight simulator architectures, networks, software interfaces, and software infrastructures.
• Show strong analysis and problem‑solving skills.
• Support existing and create new software build environments.
• Knowledge of CMake, self‑hosted Git/Bit Bucket is useful.
• Install and configure operating systems for flight simulators.
• Troubleshoot issues with flight simulator equipment and interfaces.
• Manage Linux and Windows platforms and applications.

Communicate with an understanding and consideration of varied perspectives and technical knowledge specialties.

Show the ability to carry tasks through to completion with only general technical direction.

Travel as needed to maintain existing solutions at customer sites (up to 50% travel).

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline.
• 5‑10 years of direct software development experience post‑degree (C preferred). 4‑7 years with a Master’s degree.
• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.
• Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

• Knowledge of or willingness to learn virtualization solutions (VMware).
• Knowledge of or willingness to learn containerized development/delivery (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes).
• Software development and debugging in
  
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• Previous simulation system experience.
• Prefer 7 years of experience using Linux development environment.
• Good communication skills.
• Configure operating systems on Linux and Windows machines.
• Management of a software baseline including branching, merging, building, maintaining and installing software.
• High‑level knowledge concerning compiling and linker infrastructure (Microsoft Visual Studio, GNU Compiler Collection, CMake).
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