Sensor Modeling & Simulation Engineer (M&S) (RF/Radar/EW)

Location: On-site in Ottawa or Toronto, Canada

Company

hirify.global builds an Autonomous Collaborative Platform and sovereign Canadian defence capabilities for the Canadian Armed Forces and allied autonomy programs.

What you will do

• Build and tune active-radar and imaging-radar models for long-range air-to-air and air-to-surface scenarios.
• Model electronic warfare capabilities, including passive interception, emitter classification, jamming, deception, counter-countermeasures, and decoys.
• Develop multi-sensor fusion and the estimation and track-management systems behind a unified tracked world picture.
• Model cameras, EO/IR, LiDAR, and radar at multiple fidelity levels, from fast approximations to high-fidelity synthetic imagery.
• Implement real-time, accelerated-time, and reproducible simulation systems in Rust and/or C++.
• Integrate third-party engines, renderers, libraries, and synthetic-imagery capabilities while collaborating with autonomy teams.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional systems programming in C++ and/or Rust.
• Hands-on Rust experience or readiness to work primarily in Rust.
• Strong understanding of performance, memory, concurrency, and deterministic behaviour.
• Understanding of sensor physics, including cameras, LiDAR, radar, and EO/IR, and how to model them accurately.
• Depth in RF/radar modelling, electronic warfare, or multi-sensor fusion, with comfort in link and detection budgets, estimation, and tracking mathematics.
• Ability to work on-site in Ottawa or Toronto, Canada.

Nice to have

• Sensor modelling and simulation experience in aerospace or defence, especially radar, EW, EO/IR, fusion, beyond-visual-range, or air-to-air modelling.
• Expertise in jamming and deception, ESM/ELINT, ECCM, IMM/PDA tracking, or TDOA/FDOA geolocation.
• Experience with synthetic-data or RL training pipelines and integrations using gRPC, DDS, ZeroMQ, or Zenoh.
• Experience with game engines or flight-dynamics simulation, including Unreal, DCS, or X-Plane.
• Defence experience is not required.

Culture & Benefits

• High-autonomy role with short feedback loops and rapid iteration.
• Direct collaboration with operators and leadership; systems are already fielded with the CAF.
• Opportunity to build Canadian defence capability for the CAF and allied programs.
• Competitive base salary and company equity.
• Comprehensive health benefits and additional equity based on impact.

Hiring process

• AI tools support parts of screening and response review.
• Final hiring decisions are made by people and follow applicable Canadian privacy and employment laws.