Electrical Engineer

Employer Overview

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

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

We are seeking an ambitious electrical engineering professional for our Binghamton, NY location. The role is for candidates who thrive on taking ownership of hard problems and driving innovative solutions, while working in a collaborative and supportive team environment. The candidate will possess a self‑motivated and positive approach, a strong work ethic, and strategic big‑picture thinking skills. Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates who wish to move to Binghamton.

• Collaborating with cross‑functional engineering teams to establish architecture content and develop solutions that achieve customer needs.
• Having a fundamental knowledge of Systems Engineering practices, network technologies, system development life cycles and methodologies, and insight into information technology infrastructure management/monitoring and applications.
• Providing analysis, design, development, implementation and security assessments to ensure compliance with JSIG/RMF Continuous Monitoring tools and processes.
• Performing system‑level analyses, determining and undertaking necessary trade studies, defining and allocating the functional requirements to subsystems.
• Ensuring all program requirements are met, program risks are identified and mitigated, and company processes are followed.
• Recommending and implementing system enhancements to improve the performance, reliability and security of the system, including installing, upgrading, monitoring, problem resolution and configuration.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 7 years of related experience; or 5 to 10 years of aircraft simulation related job experience.
• Experience supporting military or defense programs.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management.
• Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues and predict potential programmatic and technical risks.
• Proven track record of building relationships, fostering collaboration and working cross‑functionally with multidisciplinary teams.
• Detail oriented with a good knowledge of fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of Electrical Engineering.
• Experience with CAD software, preference to AutoCAD.
• Demonstrated experience interpreting customer needs into achievable requirements or capabilities.
• Active DoD Secret or higher clearance that has been granted or renewed within the last 5 years.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access.
• Flexibility to support occasional overtime, weekend work, shift work and site travel (CONUS).
• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

• Experience working in air‑gapped, classified, or highly secure environments with no direct internet access.
• Lab equipment experience and familiarity with hand tools.
• Hands‑on support of manufacturing.
• Understanding of ANSI and ASME standards.
• Familiarity with Mil Standard parts.
• Military or Aviation maintenance experience.

Must comply with all company security and data protection/usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials in any form. Must not divulge information to anyone without a need‑to‑know or outside the company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company‑provided resources. Must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance and must not have ever been denied a DoD Personal Security Clearance.

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