Jobs at North Vector Dynamics

The Director of Business Development leads Canadian and international defense opportunity pipelines, capture strategies, bid/no-bid decisions, customer and partner relationships, procurement pursuits, forecasting, and contract-award activities. The role coordinates engineering, finance, legal, product, and executive teams; manages capture professionals; maintains CRM and reporting discipline; and develops commercial recommendations. Candidates need substantial defense business development or capture experience, Canadian defense acquisition knowledge, strong commercial judgment, and Secret clearance eligibility.

Leads defence capture efforts from opportunity qualification through contract award. Develops capture strategies, bid/no-bid recommendations, competitive positioning, compliance matrices, schedules, and formal RFI, RFP, and RFQ submissions. Coordinates engineering, product, finance, legal, government relations, executives, and external partners. Maintains pipeline data, manages risks and milestones, supports demonstrations and teaming strategies, and provides recommendations to senior leadership. Requires significant defence capture or proposal experience and eligibility for a Canadian Government Secret clearance.

Leads the complete missile and launch-system product lifecycle from architecture and requirements through design reviews, integration, qualification testing, manufacturing readiness, and production. Builds and manages systems engineering, verification, and integration teams; owns technical risk, configuration management, and documentation; and represents the product to government customers, end users, and partners.

Manage the company’s internal IT environment, including networks, servers, endpoints, cloud services, user access, asset inventory, business systems, vendors, and employee support. Lead cybersecurity compliance under CPCSC, CGP, DSC, and CSP requirements; maintain patching, endpoint protection, backups, disaster recovery, policies, and audit documentation. Support incident response, vendor due diligence, IT procurement, AI server maintenance, and ongoing infrastructure improvements.

Coordinates cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, operations, finance, and leadership projects. Tracks milestones, hours, costs, risks, deliverables, invoices, government reporting, funding claims, and SR&ED documentation. Administers Monday.com, establishes project controls, trains users, and improves data quality. Supports production scale-up from prototyping to manufacturing, including suppliers, tooling, testing, engineering changes, stage gates, and manufacturing risks. Maintains audit-ready records and assists leadership with reporting, process improvement, customer requests, audits, and special initiatives.

Lead development of mission software for a networked, multi-sensor air defence system. Own command and control, sensor and effector integration, engagement sequencing, architecture, verification, and validation. Build and manage the mission software team, establish engineering practices, and collaborate across systems engineering disciplines. The role requires C++ and Python expertise for real-time distributed systems, web-based mission interfaces, streaming sensor data, networking, and secure remote debugging. The position is on-site in Calgary and requires eligibility for Government of Canada security clearance.

Develop and maintain embedded Linux software for an unmanned flight and mission computer, including BSPs, kernel drivers, bootloaders, real-time components, and application software. Integrate sensors, actuators, and communication systems across ARM hardware. Build CI/CD and hardware-in-the-loop testing, debug with hardware tools, contribute to system architecture, and support bench and field testing of flight-critical electronics.