Technical Associate

About This Role

Who We Are: 

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness. 

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. 

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed. 

What We Have to Offer: 

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance 

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe 

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions 

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun! 

Summary  

This is a hands on software engineering position in Link's Common Training Environment (CTE) group. Link's CTE group is responsible for development and delivery of discriminating total training solutions, including Link's HD World® next generation simulation product line that provides war fighters with exceptionally realistic and relevant training for combat and peace keeping missions. HD World® products include: SimuSphere™ HD immersive visual display system, SimuView™/SimuViewÆ™ image generator system, PBEG physics-based environment generator, and World Content Database Generation. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

The primary responsibility of this position is supporting the SimuView™/SimuViewÆ™ image generator product.  Job duties include product deployment, integration and support into a multitude of Fast Jet, Helo, Wide-body and UAV applications. The position is focused on new product feature design and development utilizing the latest 3D graphics technologies and concepts. Candidate should be a fast learner with very strong analysis and problem-solving skills with the ability to carry tasks through to completion with only general technical direction. 

Qualifications and Education Requirements  

• US citizen able to obtain DoD Secret Clearance 

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related engineering, science, or math discipline 

• 1-2 years experience in a software engineering field 

• Programming skills, C++ and Linux experience 

• Understanding of Configuration Management and Version Control Tools (git, Perforce, etc.) 

• basic experience with 3D graphics APIs and/or game engines. (OpenGL, Vulkan) 

• 3D math for graphics/games (linear algebra, matrix manipulation) 

• GLSL Experience 

• Exceptional communications skills 

• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.  

Preferred Skills  

• Experience debugging 3D graphics issues and software debugging tools like NVIDIA Nsight 

• Experience with real-time and distributed systems 

• CentOS / Red Hat experience 

• Python scripting 

• Familiarity with X11 

• Familiarity with Atlassian tools 

• Familiarity with Intel TBB 

Security Responsibilities  

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures.  Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval.  All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.   

•  Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.  

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.  

Work Environment  

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. This role requires the ability to travel to customer sites for testing events. 

Physical Demands  

This role requires the ability to maneuver body in/out of cockpit contain sensitive equipment. 

Other Duties  

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.  

Position Type                       

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

CAE is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other  characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should contact their recruiter at any point in the recruitment process.  If you need assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].