Senior Electronic Warfare Systems Engineer Regional Municipality

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North is a Canadian defence company delivering secure, multi-domain C4

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North operates as a sovereign Canadian provider of mission-critical C4

ISR systems, bringing disciplined prime-contractor execution to defence and security programs.

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NORTH. This legacy reflects a record of delivery where engineering rigour, operational reliability, and national trust are non-negotiable.

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North Defence strengthens Canada’s sovereign defence capability by delivering integrated mission systems and multi-domain C4

ISR integration, enabling trusted Canadian and coalition operations, assured interoperability, and sustained readiness.

We’re on the hunt for a motivated and positive minded Sr. Systems Engineer with experience developing and integrating Electronic Warfare (EW) systems to join our cross functional, multi-disciplined team.

As a member of the Engineering team, you will work as part of a technical team to develop new capabilities, enhance existing capabilities and deliver solutions to our customer.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary dispersed team
• Develops relationships with customers, contractors and subcontractors
• Support the EW supplier procurements through the subcontracts manager
• Produces and/or reviews technical documents, specifications and standards, including System Requirements, Interface and Design Documents
• Domestic and/or international travel to support program needs
• Supports the project team addressing design & integration issues
• Actively participate in program and test reviews
• Performs the following engineering functions for highly complex systems:
• Supports the development and allocation of system level requirements
• Reviews, develops and documents system level operational concepts and mission statements
• Supports the development and generation of documents such as design reports, technical deliverables
• Our team supports the full scope of system engineering lifecycle aspects including compatibility and interoperability, human factors, cyber-security, modelling and simulation, ILS, and verification and testing
• Models and simulates system performance and RF interference / integration into mission platform and other platform sensors
• Supports system/product integration
• Verifies and validates system designs to ensure conformance with functional specifications and customer requirements

• Experience working in a well-structured systems engineering teams
• Experience in large Electronic Systems Development or Integration projects, preferably with Electronic Warfare Systems, and a strong understanding of project execution processes from requirements through commissioning and support
• Experience maintaining close working relationships with other system engineers and customer representatives in a location distributed environment
• Must have excellent verbal and written communications and customer interaction skills
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills
• Enthusiastic contributor, willing to learn new skills, and takes pride and ownership of work

• Experience with the design and development of Electronic Warfare systems, including environment qualification, human factors, and maritime certifications
• Knowledge of advanced antenna technologies and performance
• Ability to model antenna performance for received and transmitted signals
• Ability to analyze and model atmospheric propagation of RF signals
• Understanding of antenna patterns, polarization, bandwidth, beamwidth etc.
• Understanding of the RF Chain, including signal to noise ratio
• Understanding of Radar and Missile System employment and capabilities
• Understanding of Radar and Laser Warning Receivers and SIGINT sensors and countermeasure systems and signal processing techniques
• Highly proficient with MS Office applications (e.g. MS Word, Excel, PPT, Visio)
• Experience working with engineering tools such as…