Landing Gear Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Onsite in Montreal, Canada; Ottawa is the headquarters location.

Company

hirify.global develops Dominion Scout, an autonomous collaborative aircraft platform for Canadian and Arctic conditions and defence applications.

What you will do

• Design and integrate the landing gear system, including structures, kinematics, extension and retraction, shock absorbers, brakes, and nose-wheel steering.
• Run trade studies and evaluate static and dynamic loads, shimmy, fatigue, and damage tolerance.
• Derive system and subsystem requirements against airworthiness regulations and maintain verification traceability.
• Model deployment, retraction, and drop-test dynamics using multibody simulation tools.
• Plan and execute ground, flight, software-in-the-loop, and hardware-in-the-loop test campaigns.
• Work directly with suppliers and manufacturing technicians through fabrication, assembly, and issue resolution.

Requirements

• Experience designing, analyzing, or integrating aircraft landing gear systems on a program that reached hardware.
• Strong mechanical and structural analysis fundamentals covering static and dynamic loads, fatigue, and damage tolerance.
• Experience with multibody dynamics simulation of mechanisms.
• Experience writing landing gear requirements against airworthiness regulations.
• Hands-on test experience including rig design, functional testing, flight testing, and converting test data into design changes.
• Comfort working directly with suppliers and technicians through build and assembly.

Nice to have

• Shimmy analysis and nose-wheel steering control design.
• Brake system and hydraulic or electromechanical actuation design.
• FEA experience with tools such as ANSYS, Abaqus, or Nastran.
• Landing gear experience for uncrewed aircraft or unprepared, short, or cold-weather runways.
• Experience integrating off-the-shelf gear components into a new airframe and managing supplier qualification.
• Experience with clean-sheet or demonstrator aircraft programs, or defence and dual-use air programs.
• Defence background is not required; candidates do not need to meet every listed qualification.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time onsite position with direct access to leadership and a high-trust environment.
• Short feedback loops, rapid iteration, and direct work with operators.
• Opportunity to contribute to defence capability for the Canadian Armed Forces and allies.
• Competitive base salary and company equity; additional equity may be granted based on impact.
• Comprehensive health benefits; equity is available to full-time employees only.
• AI tools support parts of screening and response review, while final hiring decisions are made by people under applicable Canadian privacy and employment laws.