Role and Responsibilities

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

This is a hands on software engineering position in Link's Common Training Environment (CTE) group. Link's CTE group is responsible for development and delivery of discriminating total training solutions, including Link's HD World next generation simulation product line that provides war fighters with exceptionally realistic and relevant training for combat and peace keeping missions. HD World products include: SimuSphere HD immersive visual display system, SimuView/SimuView image generator system, PBEG physics-based environment generator, and World Content Database Generation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

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

The primary responsibility of this position is supporting the SimuView/SimuView image generator product. Job duties include product deployment, integration and support into a multitude of Fast Jet, Helo, Wide-body and UAV applications. The position is focused on new product feature design and development utilizing the latest 3D graphics technologies and concepts. Candidate should be a fast learner with very strong analysis and problem-solving skills with the ability to carry tasks through to completion with only general technical direction.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related engineering, science, or math discipline.
• C++ and Linux experience with 3 years of relatable experience
• Experience with Standard Template Library (STL)
• Experience developing in a Linux environment using an IDE and the gcc toolchain
• Experience with a graphics API such as OpenGL or Vulkan
• Experience with 3D graphics and GPU software development
• Understanding of Object Oriented Design (OOD) and concepts
• Understanding of Configuration Management
• Understanding of operating system and concurrency concepts such as process/thread management, scheduling and synchronization, networks and distributed systems.
• Understanding of basic physics principles and concepts with an emphasis on electromagnetic radiation, radiometry/photometry, and blackbody physics.
• Understanding of the mathematics associated with 3D graphics: linear algebra, matrix manipulation
• Conceptual understanding of thermal balance models related to multi-spectral sensor applications and the impact of environmental and atmospheric factors.
• Exceptional communications skills

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

Preferred Skills

• Experience identifying and addressing the root cause of defects using software debugging tools like GDB in large scale and/or distributed systems.
• Experience with computer networking communications and socket programming
• Experience with real-time and distributed systems
• Experience with 3D graphics and GPU software development
• Experience with versioning tools such as Git/Bitbucket/Perforce
• Experience with using mid-range infrared (MWIR), image intensifier, night vision goggle (NVG), or other multi/hyper spectral sensors.
• Experience with the application of computer vision algorithms and/or a strong understanding of biological vision
• Experience using and applying algorithms related to massively parallel processing
• Mathematical scripting language such as MATLAB or Python
• Computational mathematics experience, including PDEs, signal processing, etc.
• CUDA
• CentOS / Red Hat
• Python
• Familiarity with X11
• Familiarity with Atlassian tools
• GLSL Experience

Security Responsibilities

Must complywith 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 EOE/AA employer and gives consideration for employment to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.

PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

Position Type

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. With no exception.

As captured in our overarching value "One CAE", we're proud to work as one passionate, boundaryless and inclusive team.

At CAE, all employees are welcome regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity or age.