Top Engineering Jobs in Ottawa

Leads a global product engineering organization responsible for 5G feature, parity, quality, and time-to-market objectives. Aligns R&D, product lines, customers, suppliers, and strategic partners around technical priorities. Drives transformation through AI-enabled development practices, concurrent development, process simplification, and continuous improvement. Develops technical leaders and teams while improving customer satisfaction and addressing RAN product challenges.

Leads Ericsson’s North American 6G baseband software development organization within RAN Performance. Owns feature and architecture development, quality, time to market, and customer satisfaction. Drives AI-enabled transformation, aligns global R&D, product, customer, supplier, and partner priorities, and develops leaders and technical capabilities across an international engineering organization. Requires extensive global software engineering leadership, strong RAN technology and architecture knowledge, stakeholder management, and a track record of transformation and continuous improvement.

Leads and grows software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development. Defines technical strategy and roadmaps for backend, frontend, mobile, API, and AI-powered products. Oversees architecture, design reviews, cross-functional delivery, and production systems at scale while translating ambiguous customer problems into measurable outcomes. Partners with product, design, and customer teams and raises engineering quality, velocity, and organizational standards.

Engineering co-op student supporting automotive powertrain manufacturing through product and tooling design, CAD drawings, trial coordination, data analysis, vendor coordination, cycle-time studies, root-cause problem solving, equipment installation, workcell improvements, ergonomic assessments, and continuous improvement projects. The role also assists with documentation, shipping, quality initiatives, cost reduction, and engineering support for other departments.

Leads GitLab’s Database Excellence organization, setting strategy for PostgreSQL and other application datastores. Owns database reliability, capacity, availability, sustainability, infrastructure costs, and platform standardization. Manages three Engineering Managers, develops technical leaders, oversees hiring and organization design, establishes objectives and KPIs, manages budgets, partners cross-functionally on platform investments, and serves as an escalation point for database incidents and operational processes.

Lead Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and managing engineers who build platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Own safeguards such as isolation, approval workflows, rollback mechanisms, observability, and auditability. Partner with infrastructure, security, product, and engineering teams to identify systemic weaknesses, improve reliability, establish incident response practices, and promote resilience validation across the software development lifecycle.

Own company-critical technical problems and long-term strategy across multiple organizations. Architect scalable customer-facing systems and platforms, remain hands-on in software development, influence senior product and engineering leaders, establish engineering standards, and drive responsible AI adoption in products and workflows. The role requires deep expertise in large-scale software systems, consumer products, distributed systems, and production ML and LLM applications.

Develops, owns, and continuously improves quality policies, procedures, inspection plans, control plans, and quality systems for electronics manufacturing. Leads non-conformance investigations, root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, audits, supplier quality, customer quality concerns, and continuous improvement. Analyzes quality data, supports new product introduction and process changes, maintains electronic quality documentation, and trains production and inspection teams on quality standards and procedures.

Leads human factors engineering activities across defense programs, including task and workload analysis, usability assessments, requirements development, risk mitigation, standards compliance, and verification support. Integrates human factors into system architecture and design, maintains traceability using requirements and lifecycle tools, leads workshops and technical reviews, presents findings to stakeholders, estimates program needs, and mentors junior practitioners.

Leads human factors engineering activities across defense programs, including task and workload analysis, usability assessments, requirements development, risk mitigation, standards compliance, and verification support. Integrates human-factors considerations into system architecture and design, maintains traceability in requirements and lifecycle tools, leads workshops and reviews, presents technical recommendations, manages delivery risks, and mentors practitioners.

Manage a distributed team of senior and staff engineers developing and scaling Gitaly, GitLab’s Git storage tier. Drive complex infrastructure, performance, scalability, architecture, and maintainability initiatives while balancing roadmap and platform priorities. Provide mentoring, career development, technical guidance, and accountability. Collaborate asynchronously with Git and cross-functional teams, represent Gitaly’s technical direction, and ensure long-term platform viability through sound architectural judgment.

Supports supply chain engineering activities involving material planning, inventory analysis, material master data, MRP parameters, BOM maintenance, provisioning, and maintenance support. The role prepares reports and dashboards, validates material data, investigates spare parts and obsolescence issues, and coordinates with engineering, procurement, warehouse, maintenance, and customer teams. It is a hybrid new graduate position requiring strong analytical, organizational, communication, and Excel skills, with occasional domestic travel and eligibility for Canadian NATO Secret clearance.

Lead the architecture, delivery, reliability, security, and adoption of a multi-cloud platform spanning Azure, AWS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and air-gapped environments. Manage platform engineering teams, roadmap, budget, vendors, and technical direction. Establish GitOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, disaster recovery, secure release practices, and AI-assisted operations. Partner with executives, product, security, and service delivery teams to support regulated government identity services at national scale.

Leads the engineering organization responsible for GitLab Dedicated, a single-tenant enterprise SaaS platform. Owns strategy, roadmap, reliability, compliance, infrastructure investments, customer migrations, and enterprise-grade SLAs. Oversees distributed engineering managers and teams across orchestration, resilience, control-plane APIs, public-sector platforms, FedRAMP readiness, AWS GovCloud, and migration tooling. Partners with executives, Product, Security, and Support while scaling the organization, improving operational efficiency, and incorporating AI-enabled engineering workflows.

Leads HPE’s Canadian Presales Engineering organization, setting strategy, managing budgets and resources, developing technical sales leaders, and driving revenue growth. Builds executive customer and partner relationships, aligns presales teams with sales and product organizations, influences product direction, and ensures operational excellence across Canada and global counterparts. The role requires strong business acumen, enterprise technology expertise, cross-functional leadership, and travel across Canada, the United States, and internationally.

Designs, builds, and operates scalable internal applications, backend services, APIs, integrations, and automated employee workflows. Owns solutions from architecture through deployment and support while improving reliability, observability, performance, and maintainability. Collaborates across engineering, product, design, security, and People Technology teams; provides technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and roadmap contributions. The role also explores AI-powered capabilities to improve employee workflows and engineering productivity.

Principal Engineer responsible for defining the long-term architecture and modernization strategy for GitLab’s Fulfillment platform. The role drives technical direction across entitlements, licensing, provisioning, seat management, usage visibility, and cost management. Responsibilities include hands-on distributed systems engineering, migrations, performance and reliability improvements, cross-team influence, AI-assisted engineering adoption, and mentoring senior technical staff.

Develop and maintain software for mission-critical air and naval sonar systems. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, software design, coding, testing, integration, troubleshooting, code reviews, documentation, and technical support. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, presenting technical content, and contributing to continuous improvement throughout the development lifecycle.

Develop and maintain mission-critical software for air and naval sonar systems. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, software design, coding, testing, integration, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, code reviews, documentation, technical presentations, and collaboration across engineering teams. The role supports defense programs requiring high-quality software development in Linux-based environments, using modern programming languages, Agile practices, object-oriented design, UML, and version control.

Plans, designs, and supports manufacturing facilities, equipment, tooling, layouts, and production processes. Develops time standards, improves methods and workflows, audits operations, supports budgets, evaluates manufacturability, recommends design changes, trains manufacturing staff, and provides technical guidance. The role also supports design reviews, product discussions, and industrial engineering activities across departments.

Plans, designs, improves, and supports manufacturing processes, facilities, equipment, tooling, layouts, and material flow. Develops time standards, audits operations, trains manufacturing personnel, supports budgets, analyzes production feasibility, recommends design changes, and provides technical guidance. The role also contributes to design reviews, product discussions, and industrial engineering initiatives while supporting quality and cost-efficient production.

Leads and grows an engineering team building financial and supply chain platforms, including agentic workflow automation, reporting, forecasting, tax, compliance, and operational systems. Sets technical direction, architecture, roadmap, and delivery practices while partnering with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Compliance, Product, and Operations. Ensures reliability, security, scalability, testing, observability, and operational excellence, while developing engineers, future leaders, and a healthy engineering culture.

Partners with senior Engineering leaders to shape people strategy, organization design, job architecture, talent processes, leadership effectiveness, and culture. Advises on global teams, change management, calibrations, career paths, and organizational transformations. Uses data and feedback to improve engagement and performance, collaborates with People and Talent teams, and supports Engineering offsites and leadership forums across globally distributed teams.

Leads a hardware product engineering team responsible for research, design, development, testing, documentation, configuration management, manufacturing support, vendor evaluation, and technical reviews. Manages staffing, performance, training, work assignments, estimates, metrics, and engineering infrastructure. Oversees mechanical and electrical design artifacts, including schematics, models, drawings, cable documentation, bills of material, and interface documents. Supports program execution, proposals, strategic planning, and compliance with engineering and customer requirements.

Designs and optimizes manufacturing processes, tooling, fixtures, equipment, plant layouts, and production capacity. Leads automation, Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, cost reduction, quality compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives. Uses factory data, 3D models, statistical process control, and digital work instructions to improve throughput and efficiency. Collaborates with design, production, quality, supply chain, and operations teams while training staff on new procedures and equipment.