Role and Responsibilities

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

We work on creating cutting edge cloud software to support the Department of Defense. Our software teams work in an agile collaborative environment where each scrum team is composed of 5 to 10 developers. Our software architecture is based on micro services which heavily utilizes Docker. We have multiple projects that either focus on creating synthetic environments, training, or mission planning and awareness.

This position will focus on synthetic environment development that will leverage the latest gaming technology, Unreal Engine 5, to introduce innovative capabilities into simulation products. As a game developer, you will bring your game industry experience to develop the next generation high-fidelity visual system and synthetic environment for flight simulators. The ideal candidate is passionate about working in technology and games.

We use different technologies/programming languages due to our micro service architecture, because of this we look for candidates that have a strong desire to keep learning and advancing their skills. In order to support this continuous learning, we provide a number of resources to foster this as well as providing the training time.

This position will require the candidate to apply for a Secret security clearance and will be located in either Orlando Florida, Tampa Florida, or Arlington Texas with a hybrid work from home schedule. Relocation assistance can be provided.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

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

• Design, architect and analyze solutions to deliver CAE's visual system based on Unreal Engine
• Strong coder with demonstrated proficiency in one or more of the following: C++, C#, JavaScript, Java on Windows, Linux and apply these technologies to the AR, VR, gaming, and mobile computing domains.
• Implementing, debugging and optimizing training applications and products using Unreal Engine with Blueprints and C++.
• Must be eligible for Secret DoD Personal Security Clearance
• Passion to develop cutting edge software to solve complex problems for the Department of Defense
• Desire to develop innovative software for various R&D projects
• Responsible for software planning, design, execution, and deployment of new features
• Must be able to collaborate and perform effectively as part of a project "team"

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering, software, or computer science.
• Minimum of 8 years of software engineering experience or a Master's degree in engineering or computer science with 6 years of software engineering experience
• Experience with converting UE blueprints to C++
• Experience with Unreal Engine Developer
• Strong skills in building, debugging, and supporting complex solutions in Unreal Engine 4/5

Preferred Skills

These following skills will be used in this position based on the task. These are nice to have skills and the candidate will have training opportunities to gain these capabilities if needed.

• Possess a thorough understanding of real-time rendering workflows, as well as a strong understanding of Python and C++. Experience with developing UE plugins.
• Experience in AR/VR and optimizing UE Solutions for performance in VR.
• Experience with multi-player game and VR experiences developing using UE.
• Experience with Unreal build process and packaging.
• Exposure and/or experience with Graph Database technologies
• Experience with system architectures/infrastructure and inter-process communications (e.g. Web Socket, UDP, DDS ... etc.)
• Experience with container runtime environments such as Docker and container-orchestration systems such as Kubernetes
• Deploying software to cloud platforms using containerized software modules in DevSecOps pipelines

Security Responsibilities

Must complywith 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

The work environment is an office with a desk and computer equipment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• May have to occasionally lift something, like light computer 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.

CAE USA Inc. is an EOE/AA employer and gives consideration for employment to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here EEO is the Law poster.

PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. With no exception.

As captured in our overarching value "One CAE", we're proud to work as one passionate, boundaryless and inclusive team.

At CAE, all employees are welcome regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity or age.

The masculine form may be used in this job description solely for ease of reading, but refers to men, women and the gender diverse.