Integration Specialist

Who We Are: 

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviation 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  

An Integration Specialist shall provide technical leadership for the integration, test, and sell off of simulation training devices.  Engineering skills in Systems, Hardware, Software, Cyber Security, Networking, and Test functional disciplines are applied to technically coordinate small and support medium and large size projects. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

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

• Software Development and integration. 

• Hardware setup and integration. 

• Network setup and troubleshooting. 

• Maintain the cyber security posture of the system. 

• Schedule and coordinate hardware and software integration tasks with other groups. 

• Thorough understanding of configuration management systems, hardware interfaces, and large-scale software development. 

• Hands on interaction with multiple software and hardware platforms. 

• Provide assistance to application engineers during their site time. 

• Command a clear understanding of Hardware and Software Integration (HSI) issues. 

• Implement corrective measures for all HSI issues that are not compliant to requirements. 

• Provide technical expertise during subjective and objective evaluations of training devices. 

• Help with the resolution of all acceptance faults. 

• Participate in installations and final sell off of training devices. 

• Coordinate and review technical/operational deliverables prior to submission to customer. 

• Project Team Meetings (Weekly meetings with assigned staff). 

• Customer Reviews (support formal reviews with customers as required by assigned project)  

Qualifications and Education Requirements  

•  B S degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.  All communications must be in English. 

• Analytical math skills necessary to complete the required tasks. 

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

Preferred Skills  

• Experience with setting up and configuring Windows Server, Windows Professional, and Linux Operating Systems 

• Experience with configuration management concepts and tools 

• Computer interfaces (video, Ethernet, serial) 

• Knowledge of OS architectures (environment variable, registry settings, shells). 

• Security+ certification 

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  

• Extensive travel possible, 35% or more. 

• Must be able to travel CONUS and to International sites. 

• Position is full time in office.  

• Moderate to high levels of stress, associated with technical, schedule, and customer issues are to be expected with this position.  

• Extended work hours and possible 2nd and 3rd shift assignments will be encountered.  

Physical Demands  

• May be required to sit down for long lengths of time. 

• May be required to climb stairs. 

• Must be able to climb stairs to enter and exit a simulator 

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 equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including disability and protected veteran status, as defined under federal, state, or local laws. 

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 hrops@caemilusa.com