Software 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  

Responsible for implementing, testing, documenting and revising Aircraft Flight Simulation systems baseline and production software. Normally regarded as a continuing portion of the individual’s training and development.  Receives assignments of limited scope and complexity, usually minor phases of broader assignments.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

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

• Designs, develops, tests, debugs and implements complex operating systems components, software tools, and utilities 

• Determines requirements for complex systems software design 

• Leads small or medium software development projects while acting as a resource for less experienced team members 

• Supports and/or installs software applications/operating systems, to include required hardware components 

• Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software.   

• Proficient with commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.   

• Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job.  

• Generates preliminary and detailed designs as required for enhancements or modifications to existing designs, requiring the application of current industry design concepts and utilization of basic technical writing skills.   

• Performs a variety of specific professional engineering tasks of an analysis, design or test nature in support of the customer in a specialized engineering field such as software, mechanical, electrical, aerodynamics or electronics. 

• Supports the Engineering group through all phases of software implementation and design on assigned projects with minimal supervision