Senior Electronic Warfare Systems Engineer

Overview

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

ISR capabilities that provide decision advantage in complex and contested environments. As a wholly‑owned subsidiary of MDA Space, 49

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

ISR systems.

Senior Systems Engineer – Electronic Warfare (EW) Systems Engineer

The Senior Systems Engineer will work as part of a dynamic systems engineering team that will mature the EW system design and support procurement of EW subsystems through all design phases, including Factory Acceptance Testing, integration, and final acceptance trials. Excellent communication and leadership skills are necessary to work closely within our distributed team, the customer, suppliers, and external stakeholders. The role requires a blend of systems engineering discipline, EW systems knowledge, and operational mission awareness.

Location:

Richmond, B.C.;
Ottawa, ON.; or Halifax, N.S.

• Work independently and collaboratively with a multi‑disciplinary dispersed team
• Develop relationships with customers, contractors, and subcontractors
• Support AW supplier procurements through the subcontracts manager
• Produce and review technical documents, specifications, and standards, including system requirements, interface and design documents
• Travel domestically and internationally to support program needs
• Support the project team in addressing design and integration issues
• Actively participate in program and test reviews
• Support the development and allocation of system‑level requirements
• Review, develop, and document system‑level operational concepts and mission statements
• Generate documents such as design reports and technical deliverables
• Perform system engineering lifecycle functions including compatibility, interoperability, human factors, cyber‑security, modelling and simulation, and verification and testing
• Model and simulate system performance and RF interference/integration into mission platforms and other platform sensors
• Support system/product integration
• Verify and validate system designs to ensure conformance with functional specifications and customer requirements

• Experience working in 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 distributed environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication and customer interaction skills
• Strong problem‑solving skills
• Enthusiastic contributor willing to learn new skills and take pride and ownership of work

• Experience with the design and development of Electronic Warfare systems, including environmental 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, and the RF chain
• Understanding of radar and missile system employment and capabilities
• Understanding of radar and laser warning receivers, SIGINT sensors, countermeasure systems, and signal processing techniques
• Highly proficient with MS Office applications and engineering tools such as DOORS, Confluence/Jira, and CAMEO
• Knowledge of agile or iterative development methods
• Ability to work with and uphold classified information

Successful candidates must obtain and…