Building the space between proven and possible, MDA Space (TSX:MDA) is a trusted mission partner to the global space industry. A robotics, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 55-year+ story of world firsts and more than 450 missions, MDA Space is a global leader in communications satellites, Earth and space observation, and space exploration and infrastructure. The MDA Space team of more than 3,000 space experts in Canada, the US and the UK has the knowledge and know-how to turn an audacious customer vision into an achievable mission – bringing to bear a one-of-a-kind mix of experience, engineering excellence and wide-eyed wonder that’s been in our DNA since day one. For those who dream big and push boundaries on the ground and in the stars to change the world for the better, we’ll take you there.
Are you ready to launch the next stage of your career in the new space economy? We would love to hear from you!
We’re on the hunt for a Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Developer on our Satellite systems team at our Montreal office.
Role:
As an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) professional/engineer, you will provide support to electronic development teams for the design automation of various activities linked to the design, integration and testing of satellite payloads and related space electronics products. Automations will touch every aspect of electronic manufacturing, from automating design & analysis to the production test. You will also provide support for the infrastructure installation and maintenance of the various engineering tools.
Responsibilities:
- Build and improve our delivery pipelines (CI/CD)
- Experience in the industry of at least 5 years
- Design, document, and build systems to automate development activities
- Provide support for the engineering teams by troubleshooting and resolving infrastructure-related issues
- Explore and evaluate new and emerging software tools, technologies and practices
- Implement, maintain, and improve application/system monitoring to help identify key performance metrics
- Perform system administration tasks, such as configuration management, creating and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates and supporting tools
- Disaster recovery design, implementation, and maintenance
- Manage the engineering tools and 3rd party IP (procurement, licensing, installation, upgrade, maintenance renewal, computing capacity planning, …) for PCB design, FPGA, software, RF and Systems.
Requirements:
- Bachelor in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience with scripting languages used for automation such as Python, Groovy, Bash, etc.
- Relevant CI/CD engineering experience
- Understanding of FPGA, board design and/or software development tools
- Experience implementing and integrating continuous delivery pipelines in Jenkins
- Knowledge of agile software development practices
- Knowledge of infrastructure design, provisioning, and management
- Strong verbal/written communication skills with ability to deliver high quality documents at appropriate level of detail
- Be on-site in Montréal a minimum of 3 daysweek
Nice to have:
- Linux system administration and troubleshooting skills with a focus on performance tuning, security hardening and high availability
- Experience with source control such as Git (Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, etc.)/SVN
- Experience with automating environments on Azure Cloud
- Experience with logging and monitoring tools
- Experience with Docker and container orchestrators like Kubernetes
- Experience with configuration management tools
- Experience with SQL Databases
- Understanding of network load balancing and TLS (Transport Layer Security)
- Some experience in Web development to provide development teams with GUI tools
- Knowledge to build and deploy Virtual Machines (VMware, VSphere, VirtualBox)
- Experience working with security governance and audit teams and driving security standards
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Comments/Special Considerations :
Successful candidates must obtain and hold security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.
Benefits statement :
MDA provides competitive compensation and benefits packages for its employees at all locations. As a team member of MDA, you and your qualified dependents are eligible to participate in a benefit plan that ensures a comprehensive level of protection through competitive health care including; extended healthcare and flexible drug plans, dental and vision benefits, disability income protection, life insurance, group retirement savings plans; and an employee and family assistance program.
Equal opportunity statement :
MDA Ltd. is proud to provide accommodation(s) during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodations, please indicate this on your application/cover letter and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.
