Top Engineering Jobs in Ottawa

Oversee warehouse quality activities, including sorting, rework, quarantine, inspection, nonconformance reporting, documentation, inventory control, and shipment coordination. Track suspect and certified materials, support prototype inspections and manufacturing improvements, maintain QA cost records, and enforce warehouse safety protocols. The role requires manufacturing quality experience, technical drawing interpretation, measurement skills, data recording, physical warehouse work, overtime availability, and a valid driver’s license.

Lead and grow a Maps & Search engineering team responsible for the home search experience across web and mobile. Stay hands-on with coding and architecture, scale a high-throughput search platform (~1B monthly requests), improve relevance and latency, integrate AI/LLMs into discovery and ranking, shape product roadmap, and own delivery, SLOs, and incident response.

Leads the UK&I Data Engineering team, setting technical strategy and overseeing delivery of data products, ingestion pipelines, reporting solutions, and customer-facing capabilities. Drives Azure and Databricks cloud modernization, data governance, security, privacy, compliance, and AI adoption. Responsibilities include team leadership, talent development, workforce planning, cross-functional stakeholder management, and collaboration with global engineering, product, analytics, architecture, and operations teams.

Lead architecture and delivery of a composable, API-first Core Commerce Platform powering checkout, payments, OMS, inventory availability, loyalty, and post-order experiences. Drive integration of packaged solutions (SFCC, Fluent Commerce), payments, social and agentic commerce, and AI-native capabilities. Own SLAs, reliability, security (PCI-DSS), roadmap, and engineering standards while building and leading high-performing, on-site platform teams.

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

Leads quality engineering for consumer-facing web and mobile experiences. Designs scalable automation frameworks, develops functional, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end test suites, and integrates quality gates into CI/CD pipelines. Validates accessibility, performance, reliability, and cross-device behavior; investigates defects, analyzes quality metrics, and drives continuous improvement. Collaborates with product and engineering teams, mentors engineers, and applies AI-assisted testing practices.

Design, build, optimize, and support scalable consumer-facing mobile applications across iOS and Android using React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Develop native integrations, reusable components, secure architectures, API integrations, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring. Collaborate cross-functionally, contribute to releases and Agile delivery, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive mobile engineering excellence, accessibility, performance, and reliability.

Designs and implements secure, scalable cloud solutions primarily on Azure and AWS. Responsibilities include creating architectures and technical documentation, automating infrastructure with Terraform and CI/CD, supporting integrations, identity, networking, monitoring, security, compliance, governance, and cost optimization. The role collaborates with engineering, security, data, architecture, vendors, and business teams to deliver resilient, production-ready services and reusable cloud patterns for Canadian operations.

Designs, implements, automates, documents, and supports secure, scalable cloud solutions across AWS and Azure. Translates business and engineering requirements into architectures, IaC patterns, CI/CD pipelines, integrations, and production-ready services. Collaborates with engineering, security, data, architecture, vendors, and business teams while ensuring compliance, governance, resilience, observability, and cost efficiency. Provides technical input for roadmaps and pre-sales and leverages Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Power Platform for workflow automation.

Work with government clients to assess current processes, design future-state processes, recommend solutions, prototype options, estimate costs, document workflows, and use process and organizational modeling tools to eliminate redundancies.

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.

Lead and grow Vanta’s App Primitives engineering team, overseeing hiring, team health, delivery, and senior engineer development. Own the strategy and roadmap for shared infrastructure including comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. Set full-stack technical direction, define interfaces between platform and product teams, manage cross-team dependencies, and partner with engineering, product, and design leaders to deliver scalable shared services.

Lead the technical vision and scaling of Jane’s AWS infrastructure. Design highly available, multi-region systems, operate databases at scale, improve platform reliability, reduce alert noise, strengthen security and compliance, and guide other engineering teams on cloud architecture. Drive ambiguous, cross-team infrastructure initiatives, build consensus, participate in on-call rotations, and help the team use AI tools responsibly.

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.

Reviews and evaluates engineering, infrastructure, and platform documents and work products for technical accuracy, completeness, clarity, consistency, and relevance. Provides structured feedback, identifies errors and gaps, compares technical approaches, and follows defined evaluation frameworks. Requires independent work, strong communication, analytical ability, and professional engineering judgment. The role is fully remote and supports varied technical evaluation projects as an independent contractor.

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.

Leads a mobile engineering team while remaining technically hands-on. Responsibilities include designing scalable iOS and Android platforms, driving modernization and large-scale refactoring, establishing engineering standards, adopting AI-assisted development tools, mentoring engineers, supporting hiring, and partnering with product and technical teams. The manager oversees architecture, Agile delivery, technical documentation, testing, validation, and release readiness for enterprise-grade mobile applications.

Lead and grow the Core Workspaces engineering team, set technical direction, and contribute to architecture and implementation. Build reliable, extensible agentic systems involving agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, integrations, and long-running workflows. Partner with Product and Design to improve developer experiences while coaching engineers, raising technical standards, and optimizing reliability, performance, and operability.

Lead a cross-functional team of frontend and backend engineers building scalable consumer experiences across mobile and client platforms. Own end-to-end UX delivery, partner with Product and Design, uphold engineering standards, improve usability and performance, mentor engineers, and strengthen agile delivery using metrics such as DORA and cycle time.

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.

Leads manufacturing engineering across TAR’s robotics product lines, transitioning from prototype and low-rate builds to reliable higher-volume production. Responsibilities include defining strategy, building the engineering organization, planning capital equipment and capacity, establishing company-wide quality and documentation standards, managing supplier and contract manufacturer strategy, and driving root-cause and continuous-improvement processes. The role advises executives on investment, make-versus-buy, and production decisions and represents manufacturing engineering with external stakeholders.

Lead the SSCS Add-On engineering team to develop security capabilities, managing delivery, team growth, and quality in a collaborative environment.