Top Engineering Jobs in Ottawa

Lead and develop a Canada-based Solutions Engineering team to enable mid-market, enterprise, and strategic sales through demos, trial workflows, technical guidance, RFP responses, cross-functional partnership, and value-based selling to drive revenue.

The program hires students for various administrative roles, providing hands-on experience in a dynamic environment at the House of Commons.

Support engineering teams in product and CAD design, create and revise drawings using GD&T, coordinate trials and vendors, perform data analysis, assist with equipment and workcell design, tooling/gauging, ergonomic and continuous improvement projects, and provide cross-department engineering support.

Lead technical direction and architecture for DAP Repository Flows, design and ship autonomous and scheduled agents that operate on customer repositories, improve DAP onboarding, collaborate across teams on platform interfaces, mentor engineers, and solve high-scale technical problems to raise engineering quality.

Lead a 0-to-1 pilot team to find and fix high-leverage SDLC friction, instrument system-level metrics (MRPM, pipeline success rate, latency), recruit and mentor four engineers, design and implement durable fixes, and drive adoption across engineering teams while reporting metric-driven outcomes to leadership.

Lead and grow a distributed Growth engineering team to run experiments, improve signup/onboarding/activation, and deliver measurable gains in discovery, conversion, engagement, and monetization. Hire, coach, and enable engineers; drive technical design, planning, and execution; partner with Product, Design, and Data; prioritize experiments and scale winning changes; and promote AI-native experimentation and strong cross-functional collaboration.

Build reliable AI-powered, agentic backend systems to remove friction across the software development lifecycle. Design multi-step orchestration, safety checks, and evaluation tooling; apply distributed-systems judgment; work across GitLab codebases and with a distributed team to productionize solutions that may become customer-facing.

Lead technical direction for a greenfield team building agentic/LLM-backed systems to reduce SDLC friction. Drive discovery through shipping, apply distributed-systems judgment at scale, mentor engineers, own technical hiring and cross-team alignment, and evaluate correctness and safety of agentic workflows.

The Principal Technical Product Manager will lead cross-functional teams in product strategy, feature development, and lifecycle management for a new unannounced AAA mobile game, using data analysis to guide decisions.

Lead and scale Inspiren's embedded firmware organization: define technical roadmap, architectures, standards, and AI-augmented workflows; oversee multi-modal sensing firmware (mmWave, optical, audio), multi-protocol communications, SoC strategy, OTA and secure/HIPAA-compliant systems; manage JDM partnerships and cross-functional alignment across R&D, NPI, and sustaining engineering.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

The Head of Engineering, Platform will manage the engineering execution from architecture to delivery, focusing on improving AI workflows and team efficiency, while ensuring quality and reliability.

Lead a team of ML engineers to develop and improve fraud detection models, defining strategies and fostering collaboration across functions to ensure effective model integration.

Lead and grow a Data Engineering team to build production data pipelines, medallion datasets, and reusable data products. Drive architecture, engineering standards, design reviews, and cross-functional delivery. Partner with Product, Analytics, Data Science, and Platform to enable governed, reliable data foundations for analytics and AI. Mentor engineers and manage multiple concurrent initiatives to deliver predictable outcomes.

Lead technical strategy and solution architecture for Telesat Lightspeed defence opportunities. Drive RFI/RFP responses, CONOPS, white papers, and customer engagements; translate operational requirements into secure, deployable satellite and RF architectures; align Product and Engineering to customer needs; support proposal development, risk mitigation, and post-deployment support while representing Telesat to military and government stakeholders.

The Electronics Engineering Technologist will test and validate embedded firmware on ARM platforms, set up and document peripheral interfaces, and assist with calibration and troubleshooting.

Perform verification testing and qualification of embedded products, debug and enhance hardware, implement test automation, produce documentation, support product releases and manufacturing technical data, evaluate new technologies, and contribute to process and team improvements.

The Engineering Manager will drive operational excellence, guide technical execution, coach engineers, foster collaboration, and integrate AI-assisted development practices.

Build and maintain backend features for Agent Observability across the GitLab monolith and AI gateway. Design and implement GraphQL/REST APIs, improve automated tests (RSpec), collaborate cross-functionally, troubleshoot production issues on Tier 2 on-call, and help shape responsible AI integration and platform architecture.

Lead and grow the Authentication Services engineering team to design, build, operate, and scale cloud-native authentication and identity verification services. Drive roadmaps, deliverables, technical vision, cross-functional collaboration, hiring, coaching, and production reliability for secure sign-in and identity workflows.

Manage a cross-functional engineering team building GitLab Duo Chat's AI-powered features. Define requirements with product and UX, contribute to architecture for scalable agentic AI, drive delivery and roadmap execution, improve testing, observability, performance, and coach engineers to foster an inclusive, high-performing team.

Own the architecture, implementation, security, compliance, and operation of a sovereign AWS Canada landing zone. Lead multi-account architecture, networking, infrastructure-as-code, automation, CI/CD, policy enforcement, and managed-service insourcing. Serve as the AWS technical authority, establish platform standards, support secure data, AI, and application workloads, manage vendors, and mentor the developing in-house cloud team. The role requires expertise in regulated defence environments, AWS at scale, and Canadian security requirements.

Own the architecture, automation, security, compliance, and operation of a sovereign AWS Canada landing zone. Lead the transition from managed services to an in-house operating model, establish platform standards and guardrails, oversee Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD, and serve as the organization’s AWS technical authority. Partner with cybersecurity, data, networking, and application teams while mentoring and building the future cloud engineering capability.

Lead Zapier's Enterprise engineering organization responsible for identity, access, audit, admin tooling, and AI/agent governance. Define strategy and technical roadmap, ensure reliability of Tier-1 services, partner with Product, Sales, and Customer Success, shape AI-native engineering practices, build and develop managers and ICs, and oversee cross-org initiatives and incident leadership.

Lead and grow an AI engineering organization responsible for delivering enterprise-grade AI applications across business functions. Establish architecture, engineering standards, deployment practices, and technical strategy for scalable AI systems. Mentor engineers, oversee cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, model serving, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Partner with product, data science, and business stakeholders while ensuring security, compliance, governance, reliability, and performance across globally distributed teams.