Software Engineering Manager

Who We Are:

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviationby 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

Seeking an engineering manager to lead software engineering developers focused on AI and Data Science creating containerized micro service software products with disciplines in simulator synthetic environments, flight training, or mission planning and awareness.  This individual will act as a lead contributor for the Application Development team, focusing on training, hiring, solution development, software design standards, best practices, and architectures.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

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

• Directly managing and coaching a high-performing engineering team using agile methodologies

• Supports the interview process and staffing based on skillsets

• Works with cloud based full-stack application development

• Using cutting edge software to solve complex problems for company IR&D and Department of Defense projects

• Resource management within Engineering, including training and career development

• Contributes to the technical design solutions for proposal of contracts 

• Interfaces with the customer to provide technical direction, documentation, and iterative demonstration of capabilities

• Supervisory and performance responsibility for direct reports

• Oversight of execution in compliance with company policies and procedures

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in engineering, software, or computer science

• Minimum of 8 years of software engineering experience or a Master’s degree in engineering or computer science with 5 years of software engineering experience

• Must be eligible for DoD Security Clearance

• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Preferred Skills

These following skills will be used in this position based on the task.  These are nice to have skills and the candidate will have training opportunities to gain these capabilities if needed.

• Experience working with at least one modern JavaScript framework, Angular, React, Vue, etc.

• Experience working with RESTful APIs such as Flask, Node.js, or C# ASP .Net

• Familiarity working with geospatial data using GDAL, Geoserver, OpenLayers, Leaflet, or Cesium

• Familiarity with database systems like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.

• Experience with container runtime environments such as Docker and container-orchestration systems such as Kubernetes

• Experience with event messaging brokers such as Kafka and RabbitMQ

• Deploying software to cloud platforms using containerized software modules in DevSecOps pipelines

Security Responsibilities

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures.  Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval.  All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources. 

•  Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role. 

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

CAE USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including disability and protected veteran status, as defined under federal, state, or local laws.

Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should contact their recruiter at any point in the recruitment process. If you need assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected]