Systems Architect

                                                                                                         

Job Description

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 Defense & Security is seeking a Simulator System Architect to support our rotary aircraft simulator product line.  The System Architect is responsible for designing, integrating, and overseeing the end‑to‑end architecture of high‑fidelity flight and maintenance training systems. They translate mission and training requirements into technical specifications, selecting and configuring hardware, software, and networking components to meet performance, safety, cyber security and certification standards. The role 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. 

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities    

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

• Translates mission/training requirements into a coherent, scalable architecture that balances performance, safety, and cost. 

• 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 

• Ensures the system architecture adheres to security, interoperability, and performance standards, plus cost targets 

• Selects the appropriate technologies and tools that best meet system requirements, considering IRAD, future scalability, sustainability, and cost 

• Analyzes the system to ensure that it will meet the stated performance requirements (e.g. flight performance, stability, weight, power, timing, human factors, throughput, etc.) 

• Provides system-level decision making regarding trade-offs (e.g. cost vs performance) 

• Creates the product line roadmap in compliance with the technology roadmap, reference architectures and functional product roadmaps 

• Has awareness and helps coordinate new technology investment and insertion into product line based on customer needs 

• Defines “how” the training system can be structured to best comply with the Customer Requirements, including the extent of re-use of existing components and equipment. 

• Identifies technical risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure simulator reliability and operator safety.  

• Works closely with program, product and functional management to guide technical direction and ensure that the training system meets schedule and cost requirements.   

• Stays current with emerging simulation technologies, industry standards, and best practices;