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Only applications received directly via the System will be accepted. If you require accommodation for any reason, you must contact the HR Advisor listed below before the closing date.
If you do not clearly demonstrate how you meet all screening criteria, your application will be rejected. Your application may also be rejected if it has incomplete information. We will not contact you to request information that is missing from your application.
📢 How does this work?
✅ Step 1: Read the entire advertisement. Want to join our team? Let us know you're interested! Click "Apply Online"
✅ Step 2: Tell us about yourself! Attach your resume and answer the screening questions in the online application.
✅ Step 3: We will carefully review all of your qualifications. If your talent matches one of our immediate or upcoming opportunities we may contact you for further information or assessment.
Creating an environment where diverse perspectives are valued begins with self-declaration. Count yourself in and self-declare by identifying to which employment equity group(s) you belong. In order to self-declare, please ensure to indicate this by checking off the appropriate box within the online application as part of the Employment Equity section.
Together, the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) form the largest and most complex organization in Canada. DND's role is to provide services and support to the CAF in their operations and missions at home and abroad. DND and the CAF work side-by-side to fulfill the Government of Canada's mission to defend Canada and Canadians and contribute to international peace, security and stability efforts.
What do we offer?
🍁 At DND we foster a work environment where employees have opportunities to grow, learn, progress in their careers and have job satisfaction over the long-term. You’ll enjoy:
✅ A career among a dynamic and dedicated team
✅ Opportunities for advancement
✅ A diverse, respectful and inclusive work environment
✅ A total benefits package including a competitive salary, health and dental insurance plans, pension plan and a variety of leave entitlements
At Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), you can:
- Work on research in priority areas that protects Canadians and promotes national sovereignty;
- Work directly with experienced members of the CAF;
- Work with scientists and researchers that have developed world-renowned innovative science and technology-based solutions;
- Support the CAF and Canada’s safety and security communities in an organization with a history of innovation;
- Work with partners in domestic and international organizations, industry, allies, academia and other government departments and agencies;
- Develop world-class science and technology, and research on cutting-edge technologies like space, cyber, quantum, and artificial intelligence.
Ottawa Research Centre (ORC):
Since the early 1970s, the ORC has grown into a world-class centre for electromagnetic sciences research. The centre conducts research and provides advice in the areas of cyber operations, communications electronic warfare, radar electronic warfare, space domain awareness and operations, radar systems for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and command and control (C2), space radio frequency intelligence, continental defence modelling, position, navigation, and timing (PNT), and defence communications.
The intent of this process is to fill six (6) positions total on an indeterminate or term basis at the Ottawa Research Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.
A pool of partially or essentially qualified candidates may be established through this process and may be used to staff identical or similar positions for current and future vacancies in various locations with various employment tenures and language profiles within the Department of National Defence.
Positions to be filled: 6
Your résumé.
Education:
ED1. Graduation with a doctoral degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with specialization in engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, economics, sociology or some other specialty relevant to the position; or
Graduation with a master’s or bachelor’s degree with specialization in a field relevant to the position, coupled with acceptable experience.
Note:
The courses for the specialization must be acceptable and must have been taken at a recognized post-secondary institution, but not necessarily within a degree program in the required specialization.
Experience:
EX1. Experience in conducting and reporting on an experimental research project with experimental methods, including data acquisition and analysis.
EX2. Experience in computer-based data analysis, modeling or simulation using high-level programming languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python, C++, or similar) to analyze the behaviour of complex systems.
EX3. Experience in having published in peer-reviewed open scientific publications, literature or analytical reports.
Various language requirements
English Essential
French Essential
Bilingual Imperative – BBB/BBB – CBC/CBC
Information on language requirements
Competencies:
CO1. Demonstrating integrity and respect.
CO2. Thinking things through
CO3. Showing initiative and being action oriented.
CO4. Working effectively with others.
CO5. Communication.
Asset Education:
AED1. Graduation with a master’s degree in electrical engineering.
AED2. Graduation with a doctoral degree in electrical engineering.
AED3. Graduation with a master’s degree in engineering physics.
AED4. Graduation with a doctoral degree in engineering physics.
AED5. Graduation with a master’s degree in computer engineering.
AED6. Graduation with a doctoral degree in computer engineering.
AED7. Graduation with a master’s degree in aerospace engineering.
AED8. Graduation with a doctoral degree in aerospace engineering.
AED9. Graduation with a master’s degree in systems engineering.
AED10. Graduation with a doctoral degree in systems engineering.
AED11. Graduation with a master’s degree in physics.
AED12. Graduation with a doctoral degree in physics.
AED13. Graduation with a master’s degree in computer science
AED14. Graduation with a doctoral degree in computer science.
Asset Experience:
AEX1. Experience developing or operating electronic warfare systems, radar systems or radio communications systems.
AEX2. Experience implementing digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms in software (e.g., for an embedded processor) or hardware (e.g., for a field programmable gate array (FPGA)).
AEX3. Experience in wireless networking and protocols.
AEX4. Experience in any of the following: satellite communication, radio propagation, Radio frequency (RF) components, antenna design, software-defined radios, software-defined networking, quantum communications, quantum Radio frequency (RF) sensing, or basic radar theory.
AEX5. Experience in any of the following: space surveillance imagery, astrometric and photometric measurements of satellite motion, orbital manoeuvres, space operation, or satellite manufacturing.
AEX6. Experience in any of the following fields: cyber security; network penetration testing; artificial intelligence or reasoning systems.
AEX7. Experience in working with electronic circuits or signal processing.
Organizational Needs:
The Department of National Defence is committed to providing an environment where justice, fairness and the elimination of barriers helps build a skilled, diverse and representative workforce reflective of Canada. We welcome diversity in all its forms, promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply. Please note that preference for hiring will first be given to candidates who are members of one of the following groups: women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, and Indigenous peoples.
Information on employment equity
As a result of workforce adjustment, affected indeterminate DND employees within the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment (AETE - UIC 2671) at 4 Wing Cold Lake or within the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS – UIC 7777) at Canadian Forces Base Suffield will be appointed or deployed to positions for which they are qualified ahead of other candidates.
In support of Strong, Secure, Engaged (SSE) initiative #24, consideration may be given to the spouses or common-law partners of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members.
Operational Requirements:
OR1. Willing and able to occasionally work outdoors, in remote locations, on military aircraft, ships or ground vehicles.
OR2. Willingness and ability to travel both nationally and internationally on occasion.
OP3. Willingness and ability to work occasional overtime, especially during field work.
Various Security Requirements:
- Reliability
- Secret.
- Top Secret.
The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.
Information on employment equity
▶ Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice.
▶ Our organization will only accept on-line applications for this opportunity. Please click "Apply online" to submit your application. If there are limitations or special circumstances preventing you from submitting your application via the PSRS online portal, you must contact us and receive approval to apply via an alternate means PRIOR to the closing date.
▶ Depending on the position being staffed:
↪ Additional qualifications, operational requirements and/or conditions of employment may be required
↪ Varying degrees of breadth and depth of experience may be deemed essential
↪ Asset qualifications may be invoked as essential qualifications
↪ You may be contacted and asked to submit information or be further assessed
▶ Applicants who apply to this selection process must include in their application a valid email address and make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users.
▶ All information obtained throughout the selection process, from the time of application to close of process, may be used to evaluate the applicants. Your overall conduct and communications, including email correspondence, may be used in the assessment of qualifications and competencies.
Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.
Information on the preference to veterans
We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.