System Architect

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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.

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• 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 deliver, take initiatives and make decisions
• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!

CAE Defense & Security is seeking an experienced System Architect for our C-17 Training System program with deep expertise in Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to drive the design, integration, and evolution of advanced simulation and training solutions for complex military aircraft and defense platforms. This role will play a key part in shaping simulation architectures, enabling digital engineering practices, and ensuring the seamless integration of mission systems, aircraft subsystems, sensors, and operational environments into high‑fidelity training systems.

This role also involves collaborating with software developers, hardware engineers, cyber security and certification authorities to ensure seamless integration of flight dynamics, avionics, graphics, and user interfaces, while also managing scalability, maintainability, and cost. Strong knowledge of real‑time systems, simulation theory, and industry standards is essential, along with experience in system modeling, performance tuning, and cross‑disciplinary project leadership.

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

• Lead system architecture development for advanced aircraft and mission system simulations using MBSE methodologies and SysML-based digital engineering frameworks.
• Develop and maintain system models supporting requirements decomposition, system behaviors, interface definitions, and verification strategies for simulation systems.
• Define and evolve simulation system architectures that integrate aircraft avionics, flight dynamics, mission systems, networks, and C4
  
  ISR components into cohesive training environments.
• Collaborate with aircraft SMEs, software engineers, subsystem integrators, and training system developers to ensure accurate and scalable simulation representations.
• Support trade studies, technology assessments, and system-level design decisions for simulation fidelity, performance, interoperability, and scalability.
• Ensure system architecture aligns with compliance requirements including safety, cybersecurity, interoperability standards, and DoD training system specifications.
• Mentor engineering staff in MBSE best practices, digital model governance, and effective model-based design processes.
• Participate in customer engagements, technical interchange meetings, design reviews, and program planning activities.
• Drive the creation and curation of digital architecture artifacts to support a robust digital thread across the simulation development lifecycle.
• Guides overall design decisions and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Leads the technical solution activities as the overall design authority during capture and program execution phases.
• Selects the appropriate technologies and…