Top Engineering Jobs in Ottawa

Leads the development, architecture, integration, testing, validation, and documentation of vehicle-mounted communications systems. Conducts technical trade studies, manages requirements and configuration, coordinates laboratory and test resources, supports vehicle inspections and field modifications, and ensures compliance with military, quality, and EMI/EMC standards. Provides technical leadership and mentorship while collaborating with customers, OEMs, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Lead the development, integration, testing, and validation of vehicle-level communications systems for ground combat vehicles and mobile platforms. Responsibilities include systems architecture, requirements management, trade studies, technical documentation, EMI/EMC compliance, lab and prototype vehicle integration, troubleshooting, customer engagement, and mentoring junior engineers. The role also supports inspections, retrofits, field modifications, configuration management, and adherence to defense and quality standards.

Plans, designs, and obtains approvals for municipal infrastructure projects, including sewers, stormwater systems, watermains, roads, grading, and parking lots. Prepares tender and construction documents, conducts construction inspection, and administers contracts. Provides technical direction, mentors junior staff, coordinates support teams, contributes to business development, and manages project delivery while ensuring compliance with applicable legislation, guidelines, and standards.

Leads the municipal engineering group with responsibility for business development, client relationships, proposal development, and delivery of municipal infrastructure projects. Manages project budgets, schedules, quality, stakeholders, and regulatory coordination while mentoring Project Managers and technical staff. The role requires Ontario P.Eng. registration, at least 10 years of engineering experience, strong municipal design and project management expertise, leadership ability, business acumen, communication skills, knowledge of relevant standards, and a valid driver’s license.

Senior Hydrogeologist responsible for planning and supervising hydrogeological field programs, conducting groundwater and surface-water assessments, analyzing environmental data, developing conceptual groundwater models, and preparing technical reports and permitting documentation. The role supports aggregate, municipal, land development, wastewater, and water-supply projects across Ontario. Responsibilities also include regulatory compliance, safety planning, client and contractor coordination, and collaboration with multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Leads end-to-end cloud solution architecture and implementation, primarily on Azure with some AWS. Translates business and engineering requirements into secure, scalable designs, reusable patterns, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, integrations, and production-ready services. Provides technical assurance across identity, networking, security, monitoring, compliance, governance, resilience, and cost optimization. Advises stakeholders, guides engineering teams, develops architecture documentation and roadmaps, and advances automation, FinOps, AI, and operational excellence for Canadian operations.

Leads enterprise cloud solution architecture and implementation, primarily on Azure with some AWS. Designs secure, scalable, compliant, and cost-effective solutions; develops architecture documentation, integration patterns, IaC, and CI/CD standards; validates implementations; and guides security, governance, resilience, automation, FinOps, and operational readiness. Partners with business, engineering, security, data, and architecture teams while advising on cloud strategy, roadmaps, emerging AI capabilities, and reusable technology patterns.

Leads engineering strategy for platform systems, including modularizing a Python/FastAPI monolith, advancing AI-native development, enabling AI feature delivery, and strengthening application security. Oversees identity, audit logging, API and MCP gateways, reliability, and shared services. Manages engineering managers and senior engineers, drives organizational alignment, reduces technical debt, recruits talent, and builds secure, high-velocity developer platforms.

Provides technical leadership across manufacturing engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and project teams. Leads complex engineering projects, continuous improvement, automation, reliability, equipment and process optimization, and business transformation initiatives. Evaluates risks, troubleshoots technical challenges, supports compliance in regulated environments, influences strategic decisions, and mentors engineering professionals.

Lead Keet’s API and frontend engineering teams, owning technical design, API quality, performance, reliability, and delivery standards. Partner with product managers to shape scoped, buildable features and guide product decisions for a distributed, local-first messaging and calling application. Mentor engineering leads, establish team clarity and operating systems, coordinate with deep technology teams, and contribute hands-on when needed.

Leads Systems Engineering as the organizational discipline head and resource manager. Oversees engineering teams, staffing, budgets, processes, tooling, governance, bids, projects, and product support across the lifecycle. Develops MBSE capabilities, requirements management, technical performance measures, subcontractor activities, metrics, and engineering best practices. Coaches and mentors staff while supporting recruitment, performance management, and succession planning. Requires extensive Systems Engineering management experience, engineering qualifications, occasional travel, and eligibility for Canadian NATO Secret clearance and controlled-information access.

Supports cloud engineering by building and managing secure, reliable automation and Infrastructure as Code. Responsibilities include applying software engineering principles, developing self-healing solutions, participating in code and design reviews, and learning DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes, monitoring, and cloud infrastructure practices.

Leads global manufacturing strategy, new product introduction, production ramp, and sustained operations for high-volume optical networking products. Owns contract manufacturing partnerships, design for manufacturing, CAPEX planning, manufacturing readiness, yield improvement, quality, cost, delivery, testing, and process governance. Oversees distributed manufacturing ecosystems across North America, Europe, and Asia while aligning engineering, supply chain, quality, business leadership, and external partners.

Leads the design, development, and operation of AOF’s data platform, including data lakes, warehouses, ingestion, orchestration, governance, reporting, and AI capabilities. Builds internal and customer-facing products using Python, Go, TypeScript, Terraform, and AWS. Drives architecture, security, CI/CD, cloud migration, regulatory reporting, and responsible AI deployment while partnering across business teams. Initially serves as a hands-on individual contributor and later grows an engineering team.

Leads engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, and organizational growth for Agiloft’s Contract Intelligence portfolio, including Astra Agents, the Contract Intelligence Graph, shared cloud services, APIs, IAM, AI Assistants, and MCP interfaces. Partners across Product, Design, AI, Core CLM, Security, and Cloud Operations to deliver secure, scalable, reliable customer-facing capabilities. Manages engineering leaders and distributed teams while driving predictable releases, operational excellence, responsible AI practices, and talent development.

Develop system requirements, architecture models, interfaces, information flows, and traceability for a Canadian Armed Forces C5ISR-T headquarters system. Apply MBSE techniques using DNDAF and UAF, support verification and validation activities, review test artifacts, produce traceability matrices, and present progress to stakeholders. The role also involves delivering technical work products, meeting program milestones, and collaborating with Department of National Defence customers and internal teams.

Build and operate full-stack compliance platforms for transaction search, entity labeling, ingestion, and workflow automation. Responsibilities include designing microservices and event-driven systems, writing tested code, improving sensitive financial data quality, building self-service tools and high-volume pipelines, partnering with Compliance and Risk teams, and participating in on-call operations. The role also involves using AI-powered development tools, reviewing code, and supporting engineering standards.

Leads 1Password’s Platform Engineering organization, owning the strategy, operations, reliability, security, scalability, and cost effectiveness of core engineering platforms. Drives multi-year architecture and operating-model transformations, establishes engineering standards and measurable outcomes, builds supported paths for autonomous teams, partners with executive and cross-functional leaders, oversees investment strategy, and develops high-performing engineering leaders and teams.

Lead a cross-functional team of four to seven engineers, owning people management, hiring, delivery, quality, and process. Partner closely with product management on priorities and technical trade-offs, coach engineers in agentic development workflows, review code, remove blockers, and maintain delivery visibility through metrics. The manager remains technically engaged without becoming a delivery bottleneck, develops team members, addresses performance issues early, and establishes durable testing and observability practices.

Coordinates municipal capital projects from design through construction. Responsibilities include reviewing civil engineering designs and specifications, preparing estimates and technical reports, coordinating tenders and procurement, inspecting construction sites, administering contracts, tracking schedules and budgets, supporting infrastructure planning, and liaising with consultants, contractors, agencies, developers, and residents.

Own engineering-wide technical program coordination across squads and domains. Track dependencies, risks, sequencing, and status; build automated visibility systems using Jira, dashboards, scripts, and AI tools; facilitate cross-team communication; escalate blockers; provide accurate engineering inputs to the PMO; and improve coordination processes as the organization scales.

Leads and grows an AI engineering team building production LLM-powered healthcare products. Responsibilities include defining AI systems, evaluation practices, prompt and model management, retrieval, guardrails, monitoring, observability, model upgrades, cost and latency optimization, and roadmap planning. Partners with Product, Clinical, Pharmacy, and CX teams to ensure AI systems are safe, accurate, auditable, and compliant in a regulated healthcare environment.

Leads and develops a platform engineering team responsible for infrastructure, Kubernetes, control planes, deployment automation, observability, reliability, and operational tooling. Owns roadmap execution, resource planning, architecture guidance, production operations, incident response, cross-functional alignment, hiring, and team health. The role drives scalable platform capabilities across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments while promoting responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.

Leads the automation strategy for a live AAA mobile game, building frameworks, tooling, quality standards, and an automation team. Responsibilities include designing UI, API, integration, regression, end-to-end, and mobile tests; integrating automation into CI/CD; establishing quality gates and metrics; mentoring testers; and partnering across Engineering, QA, Live Operations, Product, and external teams to improve release quality.

Designs and engineers high-voltage outdoor substations from 25 kV to 240 kV, including layouts, grounding, protection, cable systems, load studies, equipment specifications, and battery sizing. Reviews vendor documentation, develops bills of materials, coordinates multidisciplinary teams, and supports construction, commissioning, and startup. The role also resolves technical issues and improves engineering standards and procedures.