Professional, Engineering - Avionics IMA Specialist

Professional, Engineering - Avionics IMA Specialist

Location: Dorval, QC, CAN, H4S 1Y9

Posting Start Date: 7/8/26

Requisition ID: 14361

When applicable, Bombardier promotes flexible and hybrid work policies.

Why join us?

At Bombardier, we design, build and maintain the world’s peak-performing aircraft for the world’s most discerning people and businesses, governments and militaries. We have been successful in setting the highest standards by putting our people at the heart of it all, and defining excellence, together.

Working at Bombardier means operating at the highest level. Every day, you are part of a team that delivers superior experiences and products, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in our industry and beyond. By prioritizing employee growth and development, we empower everyone to reach their full potential on their own terms, because the best work happens when you are free to be yourself and share your unique expertise.

Bombardier’s Benefits Program

With our employees’ well-being top of mind, we offer a comprehensive and competitive Benefits Program, which includes the following:

• Insurance plans (Dental, medical, life insurance, disability, and more)
• Competitive base salary
• Retirement savings plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tele Health Program

Professional, Engineering - Avionics IMA Specialist (Montreal)

Bombardier is a global leader, creating innovative and game-changing planes. Our products and services provide world-class transportation experiences that set new standards in passenger comfort, energy efficiency, reliability, and safety. We are a global organization focused on working together with a team spirit.

You will be part of the Avionics Center of Excellence (CoE) team.

The Avionics CoE is team is responsible to for the design and evolution of the Flight Deck or our current and future aircrafts. The team is responsible to review and evaluate the evolution of conventional systems architectures and emerging new technologies to propose innovative architectures and processes to enable an efficient evolution of our systems integration on our aircrafts.

What are your contributions to the team?

• Be involved in developing knowledge and expertise on Highly Integrated Control Systems and Distributed Integrated Modular Architectures.
• Be involved with OEM requirement capture of IMA System Architecture, IMA Platform and Hosted Functions
• Be involved in defining roles and responsibilities associated with IMA System Integrator, IMA Application provider and IMA Platform provider
• Apply DO297 guidelines to help structure IMA development, safety and certification plans in collaboration with internal stake holders and suppliers
• Use the integrated tool chain provided by the platform provider to build and test IMA Applications, on the virtual test bench, and with the hardware in the loop
• Develop and implement methodologies and procedures to ensure that the architecture supports the safety, security and certification requirements and meet the needs of end users.
• Define standards for validation, verification and functional testing.
• Collaborate with the Project Lead to provide regular updates about the progress, design evolution risks, issues and roadblocks.
• Provide technical direction and recommendations in design reviews covering the hardware, software, data network aspects as well as the development processes.
• Advise organization on impact of new regulations affecting the architecture.
• Interface with the other stakeholders of the project, i.e. the advanced design group, the disciplines knowledge owners and the fellows of the engineering community, to get their support and ensure that technology is shared.
• Prepare technical documentation and reports capturing the analysis, the results of the activities and recommend the next steps.
• Operate to the defined schedule and cost objectives.
• Provide technical leadership to junior engineers and interns

How to thrive in this role?

• You possess as a minimum a University degree in the field of computer/software/ electrical/aerospace engineering.
• You have minimum of 8 years of experience with integrated systems architectures such as Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA)
• You have experience with complex aircraft systems development and integration.
• You have experience working with DO297 and AC20-170 development, safety and certification guidelines
• You have certification experience with TSO-C153 and TSO-C214 guidelines
• You have strong experience with of aerospace communication protocols, e.g. AFDX, ARINC 429, ARINC 664p7, ARINC 661.
• You have experience with requirements development, validation, flow down and traceability
• You are familiar with networking communication protocol and related software development (UDP/IP, Ethernet ...)
• You have experience with Embedded Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS), like VxWorks 653, is an asset.
• Experience in software development for Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems, distributed Systems and related technologies (e.g. Networks, Processing, Software development cycles) is an asset.
• You master the ability to influence and work with minimum formal authority.
• You have sound engineering judgment and problem-solving skills, you are responsible and accountable, with a positive “can do” attitude, and can positively interact, communicate, and coordinate activities with peers, management, collaborators.
• You have strong oral presentation and technical writing skills in English and good functional French communication skills.
• An understanding of aircraft systems integration at aircraft level, their operation, ground and flight test aspects, component qualification, reliability and safety requirements and FAR Part 25 / CAR 525 certification process is an asset.
• Experience with model development of controller using Simulink type tools is an asset.

This position has a hybrid work schedule and requires 3 mandatory days per week in the Bombardier office in Montreal.

Please note: You don’t need all the skills, knowledge, and experience listed to apply for this position. We’re not looking for the perfect candidate, we’re looking for great talent and passionate individuals.

Bombardier is an equal opportunity employer and encourages persons of any race, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, immigration status, disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics to apply.

Job: Professional, Engineering - Avionics IMA Specialist

Primary Location: Administrative Centre (CA)

Organization: Aerospace Canada

Shift: Day job

Employee Status: Regular

Requisition: 14361 Professional, Engineering - Avionics IMA Specialist

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