Top Engineering Jobs in Ottawa

Lead the technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for Data Labs, overseeing AI benchmarking systems, data pipelines, and reinforcement-learning environments. Manage engineering managers, forward-deployed engineers, and senior individual contributors while partnering with research, product, commercial, and executive teams. Guide platform investment, evaluation methodology, market positioning, client engagement, organizational growth, and architectural decisions supporting AI training and deployment.

Support production cloud systems and maintain service availability across Azure, GCP, AWS, and datacenter environments. Build infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and operational tooling using Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, scripting, and Ansible. Manage production and lab environments, participate in on-call incident response, troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues, and collaborate with Product, Platform, Security, and Support teams to improve reliability and operational efficiency.

Lead the API and frontend engineering teams building Keet, a peer-to-peer messaging and video calling app. Own technical design, API boundaries, engineering quality, reliability, and team execution. Partner with product managers to scope and shape features, mentor engineering leads, and guide development of scalable consumer products. The role requires strong JavaScript and React expertise, product judgment, and familiarity with distributed, local-first, offline-first, or eventually consistent systems.

Lead two distributed frontend engineering squads responsible for platform and navigation. Manage hiring, team planning, coaching, delivery, technical direction, customer discovery, roadmap prioritization, operational excellence, and engineering standards. Partner with Product, Design, and engineering leaders while driving AI and automation adoption, improving developer productivity, supporting open-source development, and participating in engineering management on-call activities.

Leads engineering standards, architecture governance, platform strategy, technical quality, security and compliance engineering, and production AI governance across CSL Plasma’s digital products. Manages cross-domain technical teams, sets cloud and integration direction, owns shared engineering platforms and data architecture, and ensures reliable, scalable, regulated software delivery. The role also drives AI-assisted development, production AI operations, engineering metrics, talent development, and alignment with enterprise architecture and cybersecurity.

Directs sales expansion for Research Intelligence solutions, securing new academic customers and growing existing accounts. Develops go-to-market and account strategies, applies consultative complex-solution selling, achieves bookings targets, maintains Salesforce forecasts, gathers market insights, and represents the portfolio at industry events. The role requires experience selling enterprise software and Elsevier Research Intelligence solutions to academic and research institutions.

Leads and mentors a global Site Reliability Engineering team supporting cloud-based Identity and Access Management services. Responsibilities include managing team performance, shaping product roadmaps, driving technical innovation, operating in an Agile environment, developing best practices, and diagnosing system reliability and performance. The role requires extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native deployments, containers, scripting, and software development lifecycles.

Manages a small engineering team delivering a customer-facing product while contributing hands-on code. Responsibilities include technical design, roadmap planning, hiring, coaching, incident response, release reliability, and initiatives involving performance, analytics, experimentation, real-time data syncing, and generative AI workflows.

Leads the technical and organizational direction of multiple engineering teams building Blue J’s customer-facing SaaS platform. Owns platform architecture, scalability, reliability, developer experience, and technical strategy while partnering with Product, Design, and Research. Coaches engineers and managers, guides complex system design and modernization, improves delivery practices, and connects engineering priorities to customer and business outcomes. The role also contributes hands-on to architecture, designs, and complex technical problems when needed.

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 regional engineering operations, managing project managers and technical staff while driving business development, client relationships, financial performance, staffing, and organizational growth. Oversees hiring, resource allocation, mentoring, training, contract and budget management, client satisfaction, industry events, and strategic planning. Requires a civil engineering degree, PE license, and 8+ years of leadership experience in rail engineering.

Lead delivery and growth of Honeycomb Private Cloud, including infrastructure, tooling, operational processes, customer engagements, and cross-organizational engineering priorities. Build and develop a senior engineering team, maintain operational health and on-call practices, support enterprise security and procurement processes, and scale the product for increased demand. The role requires Kubernetes and AWS fluency, customer-facing leadership, strong prioritization, and experience operating software in private cloud, on-premises, or similar environments.

Develops electrical protection and control design packages, including schematics, wiring diagrams, cable schedules, calculations, SCADA architectures, relay settings, and substation 3D designs. Provides technical support, performs site visits, assists with electrical system studies, verifies existing conditions, and maintains engineering documentation. Collaborates with engineers, technologists, designers, clients, and construction teams while following applicable electrical codes, company procedures, and safe work practices.

Supports systems engineering for LEO satellite user terminal products. Develops and maintains requirements, product documentation, architectures, traceability, verification plans, compliance matrices, and operational models. Coordinates with multidisciplinary engineering teams, suppliers, vendors, customers, and program stakeholders across design, integration, testing, and delivery. The role requires independent technical judgment, strong documentation skills, and occasional domestic and international travel. Work is based in Ottawa and requires eligibility to obtain Canadian Controlled Goods and Reliability clearance.

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 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.

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.

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.