Senior GNC Engineer

About This Role

Who We Are: 

• CAE Vision: 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. 

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed. 

What We Have to Offer: 

• 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! 

Summary  

CAE USA, Defense & Security welcomes experienced software engineers to help train U.S. Armed Forces and those of our partners around the world. This is a rewarding mission you will be proud to support.  

You will design, develop, test, and integrate real-time weapon simulations for military training devices. This is a hands-on, full life cycle software engineering position for experienced software engineers who desire to grow beyond traditional boundaries and create enduring solutions for a truly meaningful purpose.  

Affinity for aviation and flight skills not required – but this role will provide the opportunity for both! 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

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

• Design and lead development of new weapons software projects 

• Develop dynamic weapon flight simulation models and integrate into flight training devices 

• Develop, debug, and test autopilot and guidance algorithms 

• Develop control laws to meet weapon performance, trajectory and stability requirements 

• Develop system and software requirements for GNC models 

• support requirement verification through test procedure development, lab testing and reporting 

• Perform trajectory design, optimization, and analysis for weapons 

• Design, develop, implement, verify, and test algorithms, software, and simulation tools to perform weapon model GNC 

• Create analysis tools, applications, and execution pipelines for fast, reliable, and robust weapon models 

• Given weapon flight test and physical data, and documentation