Senior Advanced Design Engineer
Location: [Ottawa Office / Montreal or Toronto considered], On-Site
Reports to: Director of Structures
You carry structural and systems architecture from concept through defence-program certification — layouts, trade studies, interfaces, and using your experience to quickly call the right material and architecture ahead of formal stress sizing — on a platform where the design freeze hasn’t happened yet and your calls now determine what’s expensive to fix later.
At an established OEM, this role plugs into existing design standards and a large structures organization; at Dominion Dynamics, you’re helping set those standards while doing the design work itself, across metallic and composite construction, with certification as a constraint from day one rather than a phase-gate someone else worries about.
You work daily with Aerodynamics, Propulsion, Avionics, and Systems Engineering to keep structure and interfaces converging with the rest of the vehicle, and you’re close enough to the build to see a design decision go from CAD to hardware fast — not wait two review cycles to find out it didn’t fit.