Jobs at Groundwater Modelling Decision Support Initiative (GMDSI)

Provides administrative support to manufacturing project teams and senior leadership. Responsibilities include coordinating visits, meetings, events, room bookings, facilities and IT requests, expenses, reception coverage, supplies, records management, SharePoint administration, document organization, and stakeholder communication. The role requires managing multiple priorities, maintaining accurate records, supporting customer meetings, and directing departmental queries in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Manage avionic or naval development programs through bid, development, production, and support phases. Responsibilities include delivering schedule, cost, performance, financial, contractual, and customer satisfaction targets; coordinating bids and proposals; managing customer relationships; and identifying follow-on business opportunities. The role requires substantial program management experience in high-technology, regulated environments, with defense experience preferred.

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 into larger systems; ensuring performance, reliability, cost, standards, and regulatory compliance; managing project timelines and deliverables; and mentoring junior engineers. Roles are available at Senior and Principal/Architect levels.

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 and hardware teams, MBSE modeling, risk and change management, design reviews, verification, qualification, certification, and audit-ready documentation. The role ensures technical integrity, regulatory compliance, traceability, and successful delivery of next-generation avionics systems.

Own the architecture, implementation, security, compliance, and operation of a sovereign AWS Canada landing zone. Lead multi-account architecture, networking, infrastructure-as-code, automation, CI/CD, policy enforcement, and managed-service insourcing. Serve as the AWS technical authority, establish platform standards, support secure data, AI, and application workloads, manage vendors, and mentor the developing in-house cloud team. The role requires expertise in regulated defence environments, AWS at scale, and Canadian security requirements.

Lead the full systems engineering lifecycle for safety-critical military aircraft mission computing systems, from stakeholder needs and requirements analysis through design, verification, qualification, certification, and delivery. Coordinate software, hardware, and safety teams; manage DOORS requirements traceability; conduct risk and change-control reviews; apply MBSE; and ensure technical integrity, regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and stakeholder alignment.

Manage project financial control, including Estimate at Complete analysis, revenue recognition, forecasting, variance analysis, bid costing, pricing, and UK/US GAAP reporting. Prepare statutory and ad-hoc analyses, identify financial risks and opportunities, communicate findings to management, and support the Senior Project Accountant with monthly activities, leadership, and mentoring.

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 and systems-engineering principles. The role supports existing and new aerospace and defense programs in a hybrid or office-based environment.

Supports project managers by maintaining effective planning practices and monitoring scope, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, and exceptions across medium- to high-complexity projects. The role reports concerns through established escalation routes, proposes solutions, produces timely high-quality work, and contributes to improvement initiatives. It requires proficiency with Microsoft Project and Office applications, project controls experience, risk management knowledge, and the ability to work independently in a controlled project environment.

Designs and implements cybersecurity strategies, architectures, controls, and secure systems for air and naval defense programs. Conducts threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, technical security testing, and validation across operating systems, containers, networks, and applications. Develops security test procedures, risk assessments, system security plans, test reports, SBOMs, and other assessment and accreditation documentation. Supports audits, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder engagement while mentoring junior team members.

Develop and verify FPGA firmware primarily in VHDL across the full development lifecycle. Lead firmware design reviews, support system architecture, ensure compliance with RTCA/DO-254 and applicable standards, and contribute to requirements capture, work-package definition, estimation, and product development for safety-critical avionics mission computing systems.

Partners with business leaders on employee relations, performance, workforce planning, leadership development, talent initiatives, complex HR cases, organizational change, and employee engagement. Coaches managers, leads cross-functional HR projects, advises on employment law and HR policies, supports people transformation, and identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement.

Lead safety engineering across complex defence programmes and product development projects spanning land, maritime, and air domains. Manage safety management programmes, safety cases, environmental cases, and software safety activities. Apply safety analysis methods and regulatory standards, provide strategic and technical guidance, develop safety capability, and influence programme stakeholders. The role requires systems thinking, strong analytical and communication skills, and expertise in safety-critical environments.

Leads safety engineering across large military land, sea, and air programmes. Creates and manages safety plans, safety cases, and environmental cases; analyzes software and hardware designs to identify hazards, causes, and consequences; defines functional safety requirements and operational processes; and provides strategic safety leadership. The role also contributes to safety capability development, systems engineering, legislative compliance, and delivery across multiple programmes.

Designs and manages CI/CD pipelines, cloud-agnostic infrastructure, containerized applications, monitoring, and automation across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. The role involves infrastructure as code, system hardening, troubleshooting, networking, virtualization, scripting, automated testing, and evaluating DevOps tools. Candidates collaborate with stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle and must be eligible to work in Canada and obtain Canadian government security clearance.

Manage IT projects across infrastructure, systems, and software from initiation through closure. Own scope, schedules, budgets, dependencies, resources, risks, vendors, and governance. Tailor predictive, agile, or hybrid delivery methods to project needs while maintaining lean documentation and effective change control. Serve as the primary contact for technical, business, and executive stakeholders, communicating status, trade-offs, and risks and driving timely resolution of blockers in regulated environments.

Design, implement, and maintain cloud-agnostic infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Manage containerized applications, monitoring, logging, and virtualized networks. Automate provisioning and configuration using IaC and scripting, troubleshoot performance and availability across multi-cloud environments, and ensure security/compliance. Collaborate with stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle.

Perform ergonomic and human factors analyses for military systems, focusing on hardware, reach and accommodation, vehicle integration, usability testing, and user-centred design. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define requirements, conduct research and testing, produce reports and recommendations, and support iterative design improvements.

Lead signal integrity analysis, simulation, design and validation for high-speed digital and analog avionics systems. Perform testing and measurements, develop SI models and PCB/IC/interconnect designs, document findings, and mentor junior engineers while working with cross-functional teams.

Join interdisciplinary teams to design and prototype GUIs and operator interfaces for embedded military systems. Create user interface requirements, low-to-high fidelity prototypes, design documents, and development assets while following SAFe and documenting analysis, design, and test activities. Collaborate with development teams and apply human factors and HCI principles; familiarity with AI/ML is a plus.