Technical Expert, Engineering - Vehicle Management / Core Avionics Architect (Defense R&T)

Location: St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada; flexible and hybrid work policies may apply.

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and maintains aircraft for commercial, government, and military customers.

What you will do

• Define and optimize aircraft-level architectures for Vehicle Management Systems, core avionics, and aircraft systems integration.
• Lead the definition and integration of flight deck systems, display systems, data concentrators, remote interface units, aircraft data networks, communication buses, and health monitoring systems.
• Influence future defense products, including modified manned aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles, by defining scalable, modular, and certifiable architectures.
• Lead research initiatives and system-level trade studies covering open architectures, autonomy, computing resources, redundancy, fault management, network topologies, and technology roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership on architecture decisions affecting safety, certification, maintainability, reliability, and operational capability.
• Collaborate with mission systems, tactical communications, electrical systems, flight sciences, software, and aircraft integration teams; support modifications, verification, certification, customer engagements, and industry forums.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Eligibility for Canadian Controlled Goods security clearance.
• 12+ years of experience in aerospace, avionics, aircraft systems, or complex-system development, including systems engineering, conceptual design, architecture definition, integration, and requirements-based verification.
• Strong knowledge of ARP4754A and ARP4761.
• Experience with one or more of Vehicle Management Systems, Integrated Modular Avionics, flight deck systems, aircraft data networks and communication buses, health monitoring and maintenance systems, or aircraft systems integration.
• Strong understanding of avionics architectures, system interfaces, redundancy management, fault tolerance, aircraft data networks, and system integration principles.
• Experience integrating avionics and aircraft systems on airborne platforms, preferably military, ISR, special mission, or Group 4 or 5 UAV platforms.
• In-depth knowledge of requirements management tools, model-based systems engineering practices, and system architecture development.
• Curiosity about emerging avionics, autonomy, digital engineering, health monitoring, and advanced aircraft technologies, along with strong analytical, systems-thinking, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with business jet, military, ISR, maritime patrol, AEW&C, SIGINT, or special mission aircraft platforms.
• Vehicle Management Systems experience with Collins Aerospace, Thales, Honeywell, or BAE Systems.
• Familiarity with IMA, MOSA, FACE, SOSA, OpenVPX, OMS/UCI, or similar open architecture standards.
• Experience with DO-178C and DO-254 development assurance processes.
• Experience integrating aircraft electrical, power generation and distribution, environmental control, landing gear, or flight control systems.
• Operational or engineering experience supporting military aviation, aircraft modification, certification, Canadian Armed Forces, allied military, regulatory, or defense acquisition programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible and hybrid work policies may apply.
• Dental, medical, life, and disability insurance.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Employee Assistance Program and Tele Health Program.
• Employee growth and development support.