Top Engineering Jobs in Ottawa

Build and deploy AI agents and agentic workflows that monitor renewal health, identify cross-sell opportunities, route qualified leads, and improve retention revenue. Own data flows between product systems and HubSpot, including data quality, attribution, and deliverability. Develop reusable automation modules, reporting, experiments, SOPs, demos, and playbooks while partnering directly with Sales and Account Management.

Leads Aktivate’s technology function, engineering strategy, architecture, product development, data governance, AI expansion, DevOps, and roadmap execution. Builds and manages software, data, QA, and delivery teams while aligning technical initiatives with business goals. Oversees scalable systems across web, mobile, APIs, and data, ensuring quality, security, timely delivery, and effective resource allocation. Partners with product, program, sales, and business teams in a fast-growing startup environment.

Lead Lighthouse’s global Solutions Engineering team across AMER, EMEA, and APAC. Oversee enterprise presales strategy, complex RFP/RFI responses, technical discovery, solution design, integrations, security, ROI presentation, and executive customer engagements. Establish processes, documentation, quality standards, and performance metrics while partnering with Sales, Account Management, Product, Engineering, Implementation, and Customer Success to deliver profitable, scalable SaaS and data solutions.

Lead a team building turbopuffer’s user-facing features, including dashboards, documentation, SDKs, observability, alerting, insights, and billing. Design and implement end-to-end developer experience improvements across web interfaces and the core database. Manage and grow a team, support hiring, help customers optimize workloads, and communicate complex concepts clearly. The role requires product-minded engineering leadership, strong web application experience, SaaS expertise, UX sensitivity, and technical people management.

Engineering Manager responsible for leading a software engineering team, managing sprint planning and delivery, maintaining engineering quality standards, mentoring engineers, identifying risks, and partnering with Product, Design, and the Director of Engineering. This player-coach role requires technical leadership, experience with Bubble.io or low-code platforms, agile delivery expertise, and support for hiring and onboarding as the company grows.

Develop and validate machine learning models, training pipelines, inference systems, and numerical methods using Python. Debug algorithmic and system-level issues, optimize memory usage and performance, design systematic tests, and build reproducible workflows. Review challenging ML engineering tasks, use coding agents in development, document technical findings, and deliver high-quality work independently within deadlines.

Leads the firewall infrastructure engineering function, overseeing team performance, operational reliability, lifecycle management, capacity planning, resiliency, monitoring, automation, vendor relationships, and strategic projects. Ensures firewall platforms remain secure, scalable, supportable, and aligned with business and cybersecurity objectives. Manages risks, technical debt, technology roadmaps, infrastructure upgrades, disaster recovery, operational standards, and executive reporting while partnering with architecture, network, cloud, security operations, and infrastructure teams.

Leads endpoint security engineering teams and oversees enterprise endpoint protection platforms, operational readiness, policy enforcement, platform health, security initiatives, governance, risk management, vendor relationships, and capability roadmaps. Manages team performance, backlogs, projects, metrics, incident troubleshooting, audits, and continuous improvement while partnering with infrastructure, architecture, workplace technology, and security operations stakeholders.

Leads the enterprise firewall security engineering function, managing engineers, delivery execution, operational support, and capability advancement. Oversees firewall policy implementation, rule lifecycle management, segmentation, automation, validation, exception management, and cloud security controls. Establishes engineering standards, manages risks and projects, supports audits, improves processes, and partners with technology teams and vendors. Develops team talent, aligns resources with priorities, and ensures secure, sustainable business connectivity.

Lead 10–12 engineers across secrets and certificate management teams. Own delivery, hiring, performance management, technical direction, reliability, engineering quality, customer collaboration, and process improvement. Remain technically involved through code and design reviews while guiding architecture, security, observability, incident response, and operational excellence across cloud, self-hosted, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments.

Lead a small team developing secure, reliable agentic AI capabilities. Responsibilities include building agent monitoring, guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and collaboration tools; performing machine learning tasks such as exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and fine-tuning; translating research into production features; contributing code and technical designs; and mentoring engineers while setting technical direction.

Build and own automated testing frameworks, CI/CD infrastructure, load and stress testing, and chaos engineering practices for a brokerage platform. Write primarily Go, integrate AI and LLM tooling into quality workflows, investigate application and Kubernetes failures, improve developer tooling, and mentor engineers on reliability and test coverage.

Supports mechanical design, CAD documentation, prototyping, bench testing, manufacturing improvements, reliability analysis, and root-cause investigations for Simbe’s Tally autonomous robot. Collaborates with hardware, software, manufacturing, and operations teams while owning a defined technical project and presenting results. This full-time internship is intended for students pursuing mechanical engineering, robotics, mechatronics, product design, or related fields.

Leads global AI-first MarTech engineering strategy, architecture, governance, compliance, and delivery. Oversees scalable digital platforms, public-facing properties, GenAI applications, R&D, proof-of-concepts, and automated compliance capabilities. Builds and mentors a global team of engineering and AI professionals, manages vendors, and partners with marketing, business, cloud, security, privacy, infrastructure, and legal stakeholders to deliver secure, high-performance digital experiences.

Design and lead electrical building-system projects from investigation and scope development through construction completion. Responsibilities include electrical assessments, lighting, emergency power, life-safety systems, retrofits, energy optimization, technical documentation, code compliance, multidisciplinary coordination, site reviews, client communication, project management, mentoring junior staff, and proposal and fee development.

Design and deliver mechanical building-system projects, including HVAC, plumbing, equipment assessments, renewals, retrofits, energy optimization, and construction-phase services. Lead projects, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage scopes and schedules, communicate with clients, conduct site surveys, prepare technical documents and cost opinions, review construction, mentor junior staff, and contribute to proposals, quality processes, and practice development.

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.

Lead complex electrical building-services design projects from concept through construction completion. Responsibilities include electrical analysis, system and lighting design, construction documentation, code compliance, feasibility reports, stakeholder coordination, client communication, project delivery oversight, and mentoring junior staff. The role also supports workload and resource management, technical decision-making, business development, and construction administration.

Leads production engineering for electronics manufacturing from new-product introduction through high-volume production. Owns SMT, assembly, inspection, testing, process capability, equipment strategy, capacity, cost, yield, quality compliance, traceability, and continuous improvement. The director leads NPI and DFM/DFA reviews, capital projects, root-cause investigations, customer audits, and engineering teams while ensuring production meets schedule, cost, throughput, and quality targets.

Designs, implements, and refines threat detection and response use cases aligned with MITRE ATT&CK and the Cyber Kill Chain. Collaborates with threat intelligence, incident response, forensics, and security operations teams; analyzes attack patterns and security events; participates in red-team and penetration-testing exercises; tracks emerging threats; and reports detection effectiveness metrics to leadership. The role also investigates anomalies, correlates artifacts across datasets, and supports proactive defense strategies.

Leads Arctic and northern engineering growth, business development, client relationships, and multidisciplinary infrastructure project delivery. Oversees technical direction, budgets, schedules, quality, risk, contracts, proposals, and construction support. Builds relationships with Indigenous organizations, governments, regulators, clients, and contractors while ensuring resilient, culturally informed solutions for remote environments. Provides staff leadership, quality management, permitting support, and senior technical oversight across projects involving municipal infrastructure, transportation, buildings, waste, water, wastewater, geotechnical, and climate-resilient systems.

Develops new and existing client relationships for technical services and engineering solutions in the Greater Toronto Area. Responsibilities include identifying sales opportunities, advising clients, conducting site visits and needs assessments, supporting complex proposals, managing CRM pipelines, delivering presentations, networking, and coordinating transitions to field operations. Success is measured by sales performance, gross margin, pipeline value, proposal conversion, and account growth.

Designs and details mechanical power distribution systems using 3D CAD, creates manufacturing drawings and bills of materials, and performs structural and frame analyses. Collaborates with engineering, project management, production, quality, and other design teams to resolve manufacturing issues. Applies electrical and building codes, customer standards, and manufacturing knowledge involving cutting, sheet metal forming, and welding processes.

Leads the Core Systems engineering team responsible for reliable, scalable foundational platforms. Manages and develops engineers, guides architecture and technical tradeoffs, delivers incremental platform improvements, and strengthens operational practices through observability, incident reviews, and capacity planning. Partners with product engineering teams to build shared APIs, services, and tools while balancing reliability, security, scalability, maintainability, and technical debt.

Leads software engineering teams building search, browse, merchandising, recommendation, personalization, and consumer engagement capabilities. Owns roadmap execution, delivery planning, operational excellence, engineering quality, team metrics, talent development, and stakeholder collaboration. Drives experimentation, AI-assisted engineering, scalable services, and continuous improvement across digital consumer experiences.