System Engineer

For those who dream of advancing our space in the Universe and on Earth, we’ll take you there.

Serving the world from our Canadian home and our global offices, MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics & space operations, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. Today, we’re leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world, and more.

We’re fueled by a pioneering spirit that carries us beyond. And together we enable highly skilled people to continually push boundaries and tackle big challenges requiring solutions that endure and inspire.

Are you ready to launch the next stage of your career in the new space economy? We would love to hear from you!

We’re on the hunt for an System Engineer in our Geointelligence Engineering Team at our Richmond or Ottawa office.

Our mission is to turn data into insight. From detecting changes in fragile ecosystems to monitoring northern ice floes and shipping routes, our near-real time data of Earth observation and the environment makes our Geointelligence team a leader in geospatial imagery, ground stations, enterprise geospatial systems and defence programs.

As a member of the Engineering team you will work on our programs such as Chorus Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Satellite, Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC), Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope, Aeronautical Navigation products, and Marine Insights products. You will work as part of a technical team to develop new capabilities, enhance existing capabilities and deliver solutions to our customers.

As part of your growth and development we will work with you to establish your development actions alongside regular progress reviews. You are likely to move through various projects to gain the experience and knowledge to progress your career with us.

The systems engineering team is structured to be flexible and able to respond and evolve with the program needs.

The successful candidate’s first assignment would be as part of a dynamic systems engineering team that will mature the CSC Electronic Warfare (EW) system design and support procurement of EW subsystems through all design phases, Factory Acceptance Testing, Integration, Set-to-Work and final acceptance trials.

Excellent internal and external communication are necessary in order to work closely within our distributed team, our customer and their technical teams, our suppliers, and other external stakeholders.

The successful candidate will have an aptitude to mature their systems engineering experience, EW systems knowledge, and operational mission awareness. Interest, experience and/or background in the maritime and/or naval domain would be an asset. The successful candidate will be an integral part of an engineering team, under the direction of the Program Engineer, EW IPT Lead, and Systems Engineering Lead. Junior and intermediate systems engineers will have the opportunity to be mentored by the senior engineers on the team.

We are looking are people to be based in either Richmond, BC or Ottawa, ON.

Responsibilities could include:

• Performs the engineering functions for highly complex systems:
  • Supports the development and maintenance of requirements from the ship level down through the EW subsystem levels. This will done through a mix of traditional engineering and MBSE approaches, including capturing the outputs in a SysML modelling environment.
  • Supporting the development and generation of documents such as, design reports, technical deliverables. Our team will need to support the full scope of system engineering aspects including compatibility and interoperability, human factors, cyber-security, modelling and simulation, ILS, and verification and testing.
  • Analyzes and develops specific EW solutions to current and emerging threats.
  • Defines and maintains interfaces between the EW subsystems and the ship platform, including the combat management system, above water systems, and mast design.
  • Support and/or generate of models to simulate system performance and RF interference / integration into mission platform and other platform sensors.
  • Support human factors engineering in the definition of how the EW systems are used by naval operators.
  • Supports system/product integration.
  • Verifies and validates system designs to ensure conformance with functional specifications and customer requirements.
• Supports planning and cost estimates for Engineering Change Proposals and program phase/task proposals.
• Develop relationships and engage with clients technical team and SMEs
• Support the EW supplier procurements through the subcontracts manager. This could include engaging with our supplier technical teams and SMEs, reviewing subcontractor documentation, and trade-off studies.

Experience and skill requirements:

• Experience working in well-structured systems engineering teams
• Experience with modern Requirements Management Techniques
• Experience in large Electronic Systems Development or Integration projects
• A strong understanding of project execution processes from requirements through commissioning and support.
• Display creativity in meeting performance requirements and established quality standards in the context of project constraints.
• 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.
• Exceptional leadership skills, problem solving abilities and project execution strengths.

Preferred experience and skills:

• Experience in Model Based Systems Engineering
• Experience with the design and development of Electronic Warfare systems.
• Experience with the design and development of maritime and/or naval systems, including environment qualification, human factors, and maritime certifications.
• Knowledge of advanced antenna technologies and performance.
• Experience with antenna performance and atmospheric RF propagation modelling.
• Understanding of Radar and Missile System employment and capabilities.
• Understanding of Radar and Laser Warning Receivers, SIGINT sensors, countermeasure systems and signal processing techniques.
• Familiar with EW hardware architectures including DRFM.
• Understanding of installation considerations including EMI/EMC, etc.
• Knowledge of COMINT is desirable.
• Experience working with engineering tools such as DOORS and CAMEO.

Education:

• A University degree in Engineering, Physics or related field from an accredited institution.
• Post Graduate degree preferred.

We’re a dream team of purpose-driven, collaborative and passionate people, and we are constantly looking for others to join #TeamMDA to ignite new and innovative approaches to problem-solving that push us forward to improve life on and above Earth. If you’re excited to expand our place in space and driven to inspire the next generation, we’ll take you there.

We have entered a new era of exploration and development, and MDA welcomes all who yearn to suit up and be part of it. An equal opportunity employer prizing diversity, integrity and collaboration, we are committed to growing MDA’s and Canada’s leadership in this next golden age.

Comments/Special Considerations:

Successful candidates must obtain and hold security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.

MDA provides competitive compensation and benefits packages for its employees at all locations. As a team member of MDA, you and your qualified dependents are eligible to participate in a benefit plan that ensures a comprehensive level of protection through competitive health care including; extended healthcare and flexible drug plans, dental and vision benefits, disability income protection, life insurance, group retirement savings plans; and an employee and family assistance program.

MDA is an equal opportunity employer prizing diversity and inclusion. We are committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity. If you require assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please feel free to notify us.

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