Software Engineer (Weapons)

About This Role

Who We Are:

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare 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 recent and pending graduates with an interest in software engineering 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 software engineers who desire to grow their skills and career beyond traditional boundaries while creating enduring solutions for a truly meaningful purpose.

A successful candidate will display the following traits:

• Desire for continuous learning and growth
• Ability to apply knowledge to different contexts
• Show initiative when working assigned tasks and identifying previously unknown tasks
• Maintain focus when working individually or as a member of a team

Flight skills and an affinity for aviation 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. 

• Develop scalable, high-fidelity software for real-time simulation and training applications
• Design, develop, code, integrate and test simulation software to meet requirements
• Perform integration and configuration of weapon simulations
• Fly real military flight simulators to conduct testing and evaluation of delivered software
• Troubleshoot and maintain existing simulation models
• Apply software engineering principles to complete assigned tasks and schedule commitments
• Participate in code reviews as author and reviewer
• Communicate progress or needs along with solutions/recommendations to senior engineers
• Develop software test procedures, software programs, and related documentation
• Utilize modeling tools to establish operating data, conduct experimental tests, and evaluate results

Qualifications and Education Requirements 

• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or equivalent experience required
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Department of Defense Security Clearance
• Programming experience in at least one of the following languages:
  • C++ / Fortran / Ada
• Experience with object-oriented programming concepts, techniques, and patterns
• Experience with various debugging approaches and tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to travel as needed (Domestic and International)
• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role

Preferred Skills 

• Familiarity with dynamic modeling and flight simulation
• Agile software development
• Git / Jira / Confluence
• Linux
• AI/ML
• CMake
• gdb
• Perl
• Python
• DevOps
• Game Development / Gam