Software Engineer, Aircraft Dynamics

Summary

At CAE, we empower our employees to create mission‑critical simulation solutions that train pilots and maintenance personnel, ensuring their safe return from real‑world missions. As a Software Engineer in our Training Platforms group, you’ll develop and maintain software for high‑fidelity flight and mission simulators, and perform computer system administration.

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

• Develop and maintain software for flight and mission simulators, ensuring reliability and performance to train pilots for safe mission outcomes.
• Work on code bases critical to simulator functionality, driving modernization through enhancements, new features, and ensuring maintenance, optimization, and stability.
• Develop high fidelity, scalable, physics‑based Aerodynamics, Engine and Aircraft Systems Software models for training systems Real‑Time simulation applications.
• Collaborate with aerodynamicists, engine designers, and control‑systems teams to refine engine models and integrate them seamlessly into the simulator environment.
• Integrate new technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), with existing legacy systems to enhance training capabilities while preserving functionality.
• Apply sound engineering principles, develop innovative solutions, and participate in design reviews.
• Leverage emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve software development and testing.
• Prepare, check, and coordinate release of support documentation to appropriate program and company standards.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to integrate software with hardware, ensuring seamless operation for real‑time, mission‑critical applications.
• Participate in code reviews, planning, and cross‑functional brainstorming to drive innovation within a disciplined development process.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in legacy and real‑time systems, ensuring simulators meet the highest standards for pilot training.

• Develop, integrate, and administer networking technology and virtualized computational infrastructure.
• Design and develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to orchestrate cloud‑based applications.
• Design and develop Platform‑as‑a‑Service (PaaS) environments, infrastructure, use cases, and support.
• Integrate government and commercial applications using IaC and tools such as Ansible and Terraform.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Write and maintain clean, efficient code in languages such as C, C++, Python, or C#, with a focus on real‑time systems, simulator performance and debugging.
• Proficiency working on real‑time/embedded systems.
• Ability to navigate and develop basic scripts in Linux and Microsoft Windows environments.
• Version control over code.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and a passion for ensuring software reliability in high‑stakes training environments.
• Experience with developing or maintaining scalable and flexible virtual systems.
• Flexibility to support occasional overtime, weekend work, shift work, and site travel (CONUS).

• Experience with cloud orchestration, IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform), and PaaS design.
• Proficiency with simulation tools such as ASTI, CFD packages, X‑Plane, Open Modelica, or proprietary engine‑modeling frameworks.
• Familiarity with real‑time simulator codebases and performance tuning.
• Security+ certification.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a focus on developing and maintaining mission‑critical real‑time systems.
• Experience with virtualization of applications.

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. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need‑to‑know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed…