Senior Systems Engineer – Autonomous Systems & LC4ISR

Thales Canada; Ottawa, Quebec; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended Health

Dental

RRSP matching

Vacation days

Job summary

Thales Canada Defence & Security seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to join our Innovation team in Ottawa. You will work at the intersection of customer needs, business opportunities and product development, coordinating with Business Development, Product Engineers, Software Engineers and other stakeholders to refine requirements through prototyping and demonstrations.

The role requires systems thinking in a fast-paced environment, with evolving requirements across complex military and commercial

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in the design and integration of complex systems in commercial and/or military domains.
• 3–7 years of relevant systems engineering, requirements engineering or complex software/system integration experience.
• Demonstrated experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting and managing technical requirements.
• Understanding of systems engineering principles, including system decomposition, interface management, traceability, verification and validation.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary engineering teams in an iterative or agile development environment.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer and operational needs into clear, measurable and verifiable system and subsystem requirements.
• Develop and maintain requirements documentation, including operational concepts, use cases, system requirements, interface requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Manage requirements traceability from customer needs through design, implementation, integration, verification and validation.
• Facilitate requirements workshops and technical discussions with internal teams, partners and customers.
• Work closely with Product Engineers, Software Engineers and Solution Architects to ensure requirements are technically feasible and aligned with product capabilities and roadmaps.
• Support system architecture development, functional analysis, interface definition and trade-off studies.
• Identify requirement gaps, ambiguities, conflicts, assumptions and technical risks, and coordinate their resolution.
• Support the integration of autonomous platforms, command-and-control applications, sensors, communications systems and mission-management capabilities.
• Contribute to technical proposals, statements of work, estimates, product demonstrations and customer briefings.
• Support system integration, test planning, verification and validation activities.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements engineering

Agile development

Stakeholder collaboration

Technical documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

Thales Canada Defence & Security seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to join our Innovation team in Ottawa. You will work at the intersection of customer needs, business opportunities and product development, coordinating with Business Development, Product Engineers, Software Engineers and other stakeholders to refine requirements through prototyping and demonstrations.

The role requires systems thinking in a fast-paced environment, with evolving requirements across complex military and commercial