Jobs at General Dynamics Mission Systems

Work as a Test Engineer on avionics and armoured vehicle communication systems, diagnosing and repairing circuit card assemblies and assembled units, integrating complex test solutions, and troubleshooting test systems to component level. Collaborate with the test team and expand hardware/software expertise with opportunities for development.

Lead the full systems engineering lifecycle for next-generation safety-critical military aircraft mission computing systems. Responsibilities include stakeholder needs analysis, requirements management in DOORS, MBSE modeling, design reviews, verification, qualification, certification, risk management, and change control. The role coordinates software, hardware, and safety engineering teams while ensuring technical integrity, regulatory compliance, traceability, and delivery of modular, high-performance avionics systems.

Lead firmware development and verification across the full lifecycle for safety-critical avionics mission-computing systems. Responsibilities include primarily VHDL-based FPGA design, compliance with RTCA/DO-254 standards, leading firmware design reviews, supporting system architecture, defining work packages, estimating effort, and contributing to engineering capability development. The role focuses on defence products but welcomes candidates from adjacent industries.

Lead the design and development of electronic hardware systems for safety-critical avionics and mission-computing products. Responsibilities include defining requirements, functions, interfaces, specifications, and architectures; integrating components and subsystems; ensuring performance, reliability, cost, standards, and regulatory compliance; managing project resources and deliverables; and mentoring junior engineers. The role is available at Senior and Principal/Architect levels.

Lead safety engineering across complex defense programmes spanning land, maritime, and air domains. Manage safety management programmes, develop safety and environmental cases, apply hazard and analytical techniques, ensure regulatory and customer compliance, and provide strategic technical leadership across multiple projects. The role also involves developing safety engineering capability, advising stakeholders, supporting programme delivery, and contributing to organizational growth.

Design and implement FPGA firmware using VHDL across the full development lifecycle for safety-critical avionics mission-computing systems. Responsibilities include FPGA design, simulation, test-bench development, requirements capture, work-package definition, effort estimation, and applying digital hardware design principles. The role supports existing and new aerospace and defense programs, with hybrid or office-based work.

Lead the full systems engineering lifecycle for safety-critical military aircraft mission computing systems. Responsibilities include stakeholder needs analysis, requirements management in DOORS, cross-functional coordination across software, hardware and safety teams, MBSE modeling, risk and change management, design reviews, verification, qualification, certification, and delivery. The role requires maintaining technical integrity, regulatory compliance, requirements traceability, and audit-ready documentation while collaborating with architects and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Lead safety engineering across large, complex defense programmes spanning land, sea, and air environments. Create and manage safety plans and safety and environmental cases; analyze hardware and software designs to identify hazards, causes, and consequences; define functional safety requirements and operational processes; provide strategic safety leadership; and support safety capability development, legislative compliance, and delivery across multiple programs.

Manage avionics or naval defence programmes through bid, development, production, and support phases. Responsibilities include meeting schedule, cost, performance, financial, delivery, and customer satisfaction targets; managing customer relationships; coordinating bids, estimates, and proposals; delivering contract requirements; and identifying follow-on business opportunities. The role requires programme management experience, preferably in defence, plus knowledge of engineering, manufacturing, regulated environments, and commercial and technical negotiation.

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.

Provides administrative support to manufacturing project teams and senior leadership. Responsibilities include coordinating meetings, customer visits, room bookings, facilities and IT requests, expenses, catering, records management, SharePoint administration, reception coverage, stationery procurement, and stakeholder communications. The role requires strong organization, communication, prioritization, attention to detail, and proficiency with business systems and Microsoft Office.

Partners with business leaders on employee relations, performance, resource planning, talent initiatives, organizational change, and strategic HR delivery. Coaches managers, manages complex HR cases, strengthens leadership capability, supports cross-functional HR projects, and drives employee engagement and business growth. Requires HRBP or senior generalist experience, employment law knowledge, HR policy expertise, HRIS experience, and strong communication, problem-solving, and advisory skills.

The Project Accountant will support project financial control, including Estimate at Complete analysis, revenue recognition, forecasting, variance analysis, bid costing, pricing, and UK/US GAAP reporting. The role involves preparing statutory and ad-hoc analyses, communicating financial risks and opportunities to management, supporting the Senior Project Accountant, and mentoring team members. It requires accounting experience, professional qualification, strong analytical and presentation skills, ERP and spreadsheet proficiency, and collaborative leadership.

Supports project managers across medium- to high-complexity projects by maintaining planning discipline and monitoring scope, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, and exceptions. The role produces status reports, escalates concerns through established routes, proposes solutions, and promotes continuous improvement. It requires strong project-control knowledge, Microsoft Project and Office proficiency, independent working capability, and the ability to deliver high-quality work on time.

Designs and implements cybersecurity strategies, architectures, controls, and secure system solutions for air and naval defense programs. Responsibilities include threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, Linux and container security testing, security requirements validation, compliance with military and industry frameworks, vulnerability management, SBOM maintenance, security documentation, audits, and mentoring junior staff.

Leads end-to-end IT projects across infrastructure, systems, and software. Manages scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, resources, vendors, governance, and change control. Selects predictive, agile, or hybrid delivery approaches based on project needs. Serves as the primary stakeholder contact, communicates status and trade-offs, resolves blockers, and coordinates technical, business, executive, and third-party teams within regulated environments.

Designs and manages CI/CD pipelines, cloud-agnostic infrastructure, containerized applications, monitoring, and automated deployment systems across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. The role uses Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code practices to improve reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, system hardening, network and virtualization management, tool integration, automated testing, and evaluating DevOps technologies.

Lead signal integrity analysis, simulation, design and validation for high-speed digital and analog avionics PCBs and interconnects. Perform SI testing/measurement, develop models, create documentation and design guidelines, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Design, implement, and maintain cloud-agnostic CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code across multi-cloud environments. Manage containerized applications, monitoring, logging, and system availability. Automate provisioning, configuration, and deployments with scripting and tooling while ensuring security, compliance, and collaboration with stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle.

Conduct ergonomic and human factors analyses for military systems, focusing on hardware, vehicle integration, reach and accommodation studies, usability testing, and user-centred design. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define requirements, recommend design changes, produce reports and presentations, and support iterative improvements informed by research and testing.