Top Engineering Jobs in Ottawa

Leads enterprise application engineering strategy, modernization, integration, escalated support, governance, and operational resilience across ERP, HCM, SIS, finance, and related platforms. Oversees directors, architects, and engineering teams; manages budgets, vendors, lifecycle planning, incident response, quality, releases, cybersecurity alignment, and continuous improvement. Partners with business and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, maintainable solutions while developing workforce capability and organizational effectiveness.

Leads engineering strategy, modernization, integration, reliability, governance, and support for academic technology platforms including LMS, course management systems, virtual labs, and instructional applications. Oversees technical teams, budgets, vendors, application lifecycle management, incident response, accessibility, cybersecurity alignment, and operational excellence. Partners with academic, business, architecture, cybersecurity, data, and IT operations stakeholders while developing engineering talent and advancing scalable, secure, and reliable teaching and learning solutions.

Software Engineering Intern working across the technology stack to build semantic search, agentic AI systems, graph data solutions, and production-quality software. The role requires at least 20 hours per week and involves solving complex problems in an early-stage startup environment with significant ownership and experimentation.

Leads a cloud platform engineering team responsible for cloud architecture, standards, automation, security, reliability, availability, and performance. Partners with architecture, risk, security, and application teams to deliver resilient cloud services and platform capabilities. Oversees cloud infrastructure enhancements, controls, observability, and operational excellence while managing staff development, hiring, performance, and technical strategy.

Designs acoustic-system interfaces and operator documentation, analyzes acoustic and post-mission data, directs operational testing, develops training and test scenarios, and supports system requirements, integration, formal testing, proposals, demonstrations, and customer engagement. The role focuses on underwater acoustics and anti-submarine warfare, including harbour and sea acceptance testing, acoustic system qualification, and international business-development travel.

Serves as an underwater acoustics subject matter expert supporting airborne and naval anti-submarine warfare systems. Responsibilities include acoustic and post-mission analysis, operator interface and manual development, operational testing, acceptance testing, operator training, test scenario development, requirements support, system integration, customer liaison, demonstrations, and proposal and business development activities. Domestic and international travel is required.

Lead and manage MongoDB’s Storage Execution team, owning the roadmap for durability, availability, performance, transactions, storage architecture, index operations, and developer productivity. Partner with adjacent engineering and cloud teams, manage customer escalations, drive cross-team initiatives, improve engineering processes, and develop engineers through hiring, coaching, and performance management.

Leads a team of application development engineers delivering complex enterprise software solutions. Oversees project scope, schedules, budgets, vendors, risks, security, service transitions, prototypes, staffing, performance management, and technical development. Partners with architects, data specialists, Security, and SRE teams while ensuring application quality, stability, and policy compliance. Requires strong leadership, communication, coaching, application architecture, DevOps, Agile, database, and data governance expertise.

Leads quality assurance for aerospace and defense engineering and software projects. Responsibilities include developing QA plans, conducting audits, managing nonconformances and corrective actions, supporting configuration and design reviews, monitoring testing, leading investigations and continuous improvement, analyzing quality data, and reporting metrics. The role interfaces with government and customer quality authorities and ensures compliance with AS9100, ISO 9001, contractual, and airworthiness standards.

Lead the development, architecture, integration, testing, validation, and technical documentation of vehicle-mounted communications systems. Conduct trade studies, manage requirements and configuration, coordinate laboratory and prototype vehicle testing, ensure compliance with military and quality standards, and support inspections, retrofits, field modifications, and customer engagements. Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams.

Provides technical leadership for vehicle-level communications systems, including requirements, architecture, interfaces, trade studies, integration, testing, validation, and technical documentation. Leads multidisciplinary engineering activities, mentors junior staff, coordinates lab resources, manages traceability and configuration, ensures compliance with military and quality standards, and supports vehicle inspections, retrofits, field modifications, and customer engagements.

The Quality Engineering Specialist leads quality assurance for engineering and software development projects in regulated aerospace and defense environments. Responsibilities include creating QA plans, conducting audits, managing non-conformances and corrective actions, supporting configuration and design reviews, monitoring testing, facilitating investigations, analyzing quality data, reporting metrics, and ensuring compliance with AS9100, ISO 9001, contractual, and airworthiness standards.

Leads and develops a team of IAM engineers, providing technical direction for backend architecture, distributed systems, engineering standards, and full project delivery. Partners with product, QA, SRE, and senior leadership to deliver customer-facing IAM platforms. Responsibilities include mentoring, hiring, onboarding, performance management, requirements clarification, execution oversight, and career development. Requires extensive engineering experience, Python knowledge, IAM expertise, distributed systems experience, Agile and SDLC understanding, and prior leadership experience.

Leads strategy and execution for large-scale data engineering and analytics programs. Coordinates engineering, data science, product, and business stakeholders; manages roadmaps, dependencies, milestones, risks, reporting, and delivery. Ensures data definitions, transformations, models, and downstream analytics remain accurate and fit for purpose while navigating complex, ambiguous initiatives involving multiple teams and partners.

Lead complex enterprise SaaS sales for engineering firms across North America. Manage the full sales cycle from qualified leads and discovery through pilots, procurement, negotiation, and multi-year contract close. Build relationships with executives, engineers, and internal champions; generate outbound pipeline; represent the company at industry events; and collaborate with Product, Marketing, and Customer Success to support onboarding and expansion.

Develop and maintain cross-platform consumer mobile applications using React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Build reusable components, integrate REST and GraphQL APIs, implement state management, optimize performance, troubleshoot crashes, support testing and CI/CD releases, and apply accessibility and usability principles. Collaborate with product, design, QA, and engineering teams in Agile delivery environments while contributing to code reviews, experiments, and engineering standards.

Leads Gartner research and thought leadership on applying AI and agentic capabilities across software engineering. Advises global software engineering executives on AI strategy, opportunity prioritization, roadmap planning, value measurement, ROI, and developer productivity. Produces research, market analysis, presentations, and client recommendations; supports sales and conferences; mentors analysts; and contributes to research strategy and process improvements.

Provides strategic research, thought leadership, and client advisory services on software engineering for AI-native applications and agentic systems. Develops market insights, analyzes trends, presents recommendations to executives, supports sales and conferences, reviews content, mentors analysts, and improves research processes. Requires deep practical knowledge of LLM applications, agentic AI frameworks, orchestration, production architecture, and emerging AI platforms. This remote individual contributor role requires 12+ years of relevant experience and travel up to 25%.

Leads FormFactor’s global Technical Support Engineering organization, overseeing technical escalations, advanced troubleshooting, failure analysis, service readiness, documentation, training, and customer issue resolution. The role coordinates with Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, Quality, and Service Operations to improve product reliability, support scalability, and customer satisfaction. It also establishes support standards, KPIs, certification programs, knowledge-management systems, and talent-development strategies while building and coaching global technical teams.

Lead coordination and operational rhythm for an engineering platform portfolio. Ensure cross-team alignment, manage dependencies and risks, maintain Jira/Confluence tracking, produce executive communications and dashboards, improve documentation and automation, and streamline intake and reporting to accelerate delivery and reduce friction.

Supports digital integrated circuit development for high-speed data communications products. Responsibilities include digital circuit design, layout, simulation, verification, synthesis, DFT insertion, and timing closure using CAD tools. The intern will work with experienced designers, contribute to project milestones, and gain exposure to digital development processes including definition, implementation, and verification.

Designs and manages CI/CD pipelines, cloud-agnostic infrastructure, containerized applications, monitoring, logging, and alerting across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. Builds infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes; automates provisioning and configuration; troubleshoots performance and reliability issues; applies security hardening and compliance measures; writes deployment scripts and automated tests; and evaluates tools supporting DevOps transformation.

Designs and manages CI/CD pipelines, cloud-agnostic infrastructure, containerized applications, monitoring systems, and automated deployments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. The role involves Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, scripting, infrastructure troubleshooting, security hardening, network and virtualization management, test automation, and evaluating DevOps tools. This hybrid position requires collaboration with stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle and eligibility for Canadian government security clearance.

Leads the Rexdale factory’s engineering strategy, capital investment program, technical capability development, asset reliability, utilities optimization, and engineering governance. Owns end-to-end capital project delivery, sustainability initiatives, manufacturing systems improvement, safety and quality compliance, contractor and supplier partnerships, and cross-functional stakeholder engagement. Coaches engineering teams and drives continuous improvement, loss elimination, operational reliability, and alignment with Unilever manufacturing standards.

Lead manufacturing engineering for a general-purpose robot from engineering builds through pilot and volume production. Design production processes, stations, fixtures, tooling, testing, documentation, capacity plans, and quality gates. Transfer processes to contract manufacturing partners, build and lead engineering and technician teams, manage training and certification, and establish traceability and production metrics. Ensure yield, quality, cost, and schedule performance through data-driven continuous improvement.