Systems Engineer Security Clearance

About CAE

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.

Values:
Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity, and OneCAE.

What We Offer:

Comprehensive and competitive benefits package, 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 deliver, take initiatives and make decisions, recognition, professional development, advancement, and having fun.

Join CAE in Binghamton, NY to build Mission Ready Training Systems. As a Systems Engineer, you will shape the systems powering our high‑fidelity flight and mission simulators – modernizing legacy platforms, integrating new capabilities, and ensuring the realism and reliability that keeps pilots mission‑ready.

• Design and maintain core systems that ensure reliable, high‑performing simulator operation.
• Modernize legacy simulator systems with enhancements, new features, and optimized stability.
• Collaborate with software and hardware teams to integrate system components seamlessly into real‑time training devices.
• Support system reviews and cross‑functional innovation to evolve next‑generation training capabilities.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex system issues across modern and legacy platforms.
• Contribute to systems that directly support pilot readiness and mission safety.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience in systems engineering for mission‑critical or real‑time environments.
• Strong problem‑solving instincts and a passion for building reliable, high-performance systems.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance and Special Program Access; U.S. citizenship required.
• Flexibility for occasional overtime, shift work, weekend work, and CONUS travel.

• Knowledge of MIL‑STD‑810, MIL‑STD‑461, MIL‑STD‑704; ARINC / RTCA experience preferred.
• Experience working in Waterfall and/or Agile/Scrum environments.
• Defense or military experience and comfort operating in both traditional and agile environments.

• Your engineering directly supports pilot readiness and mission safety around the globe.
• Part of a company with 75 years of innovation in simulation and immersive training technology.
• Collaborative, high‑impact environment where your ideas fuel next‑generation training systems.
• Career growth alongside talented engineers passionate about technical excellence and real‑world impact.
• Work in Binghamton – affordable living, growing tech scene, access to Binghamton University, and outdoor recreation.

• Security Responsibilities:
  Must comply with all company security and data protection policies. Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance. Only U.S. citizens are eligible.
• Physical Demands:
  Perform normal office duties, seated for long periods at a desk; travel within CONUS (by car and airplane); climb stairs to enter and exit a simulator.

Salary Range: $153,300‑169,500. Position Type:
Regular.

CAE USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including disability and protected veteran status, as defined under federal, state, or local laws. Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should contact their recruiter.