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About the Role

As a Software Engineering Manager at CAE, you will combine strong hands-on engineering expertise with team leadership to deliver high-fidelity, mission-critical training systems for pilots and defense personnel worldwide. You will lead and mentor software engineers in designing, developing, and maintaining software for flight and mission simulators, modernizing legacy codebases, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This role involves technical leadership and people management, focusing on creating a supportive team environment and driving engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor software engineers in designing, developing, and maintaining software for flight and mission simulators, ensuring high reliability and exceptional performance.
• Modernize and enhance legacy codebases essential to simulator functionality, driving upgrades that improve stability and expand capability.
• Collaborate closely with hardware, systems engineering, and program management stakeholders to align software development with program needs.
• Lead projects using both Waterfall and Agile/Scrum methodologies and contribute to BOEs, IMPs, and IMS planning.
• Troubleshoot complex issues in real-time or legacy systems to support high stakes pilot training outcomes.
• Create and maintain a productive, supportive, and growth focused team environment.
• Coach, motivate, and develop engineers to achieve excellence in performance and career progression.
• Define roles and responsibilities and guide the adoption of best practice engineering processes and tools.
• Support proposals, staffing plans, hiring, evaluations, and company communications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with hands-on development in mission critical or realtime systems.
• Minimum of 3–5 years leading teams, mentoring engineers, or serving as a technical lead.
• Strong mastery of realtime/embedded or simulation development experience.
• High initiative, strong ownership, positive attitude, and consistent follow-through.
• Ability to motivate, coach, and elevate a team while contributing technically ~80% of your time.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an active DoD Secret clearance and Special Program Access.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Flexibility for occasional overtime, weekend/shift work, and CONUS travel.
• 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.
• Must be able to work overtime on and off-shifts as required.
• Must be able to perform normal office duties (e.g. sitting for long periods at a desk).
• Must be able to travel CONUS/OCONUS via car and airplane.
• Must be able to climb stairs to enter and exit a simulator.

Skills

• Realtime/embedded development
• Simulation development
• Waterfall methodologies
• Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Integrating modern technology into legacy architectures
• Atlassian suite
• GitHub/GitLab
• Jenkins
• Change control systems
• Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Defense or military experience
• Operating in Traditional environments
• Operating in Agile environments

Location

• Binghamton, NY

Work Type

• Regular
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3-5 years leading teams, mentoring engineers, or serving as a technical lead

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Salary/Compensations

• $153,300-$169,500.00

Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package
• 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!

About the Company

• CAE's 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'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.
• At CAE, our mission is clear: to help make the world a safer place. For nearly 80 years, we’ve driven innovation in simulation, training, and mission readiness to support critical operations worldwide. By leveraging advanced technologies, we empower our customers to operate smarter, faster, and more sustainably. Join a purpose-driven organization where bold ideas are encouraged, collaboration drives progress, and your growth fuels our shared success.

Equal Opportunity

• CAE USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will consider for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including disability and protected veteran status, as defined under federal, state, or local laws.
• 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 hrops@caemilusa.com.
• If you need assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at CAECarrieres-Careers@cae.com.