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Senior Integration Engineer
Vancity
New Westminster, British Columbia · Vancouver, British Columbia
- Full-time
Job posting link via Si Systems: Senior Integration Engineer
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Satellite Flight Software (FSW) Systems Engineer
MDA
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec
- Full-time
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Senior AI Engineer
ShyftLabs
Toronto, Ontario
- Full-time
ShyftLabs is looking for a Senior AI Engineer to sit at the intersection of AI/ML engineering and backend platform development. This isn't a research role, it's a hands-on engineering…
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Forward Deployed Engineer
H2 Analytics
Remote, Canada
- Full-time
- Remote
Lead the end-to-end deployment of our software at customer sites, including installation, configuration, and integration with customer infrastructure and third-party systems.
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Specialist, Technology Planning and Strategy
Vale
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- Full-time
…improving operational efficiency, and enabling seamless technology…
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- Full-time
- Remote
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Junior Quantum Engineer
Q-Block Computing
Ottawa, Ontario
- $85,000 to $110,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
About this role: The Junior Quantum Engineer will join Q-Block's R&D engineering team, working on the design, integration, characterization, and validation of quantum hardware systems…
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Senior Quantum Engineer
Q-Block Computing
Ottawa, Ontario
- $120,000 to $160,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
About this role: The Senior Quantum Engineer will serve as a technical leader in Q-Block's R&D engineering organization, with responsibility for driving the development, integration, and…
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Ingénieur(e) en stress Statiques / Stress Engineer - Static
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Montreal, QC
- $75,815 to $118,350 CAD / year
…From autonomous cars to life-saving robots, our digital and software technology experts think outside the box as they provide unique R&D and engineering services across all industries. Join…
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Senior Electrical Design Engineer
Humanoid
Burnaby, BC
- Full-time
As a Senior Electrical Design Engineer at Humanoid, you will design and develop electrical systems that power and control advanced robotic platforms, focusing on sensors, compute…
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Senior Actuator Mechanical Design Engineer
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Burnaby, British Columbia
- Full-time
This role requires strong fundamentals in mechanical design, system integration, and GD&T (ASME Y14.5), as well as a passion for building complex hardware systems.
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Senior Backend Engineer
US Mobile
Toronto, Ontario
- Full-time
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Senior ERP LN Finance Analyst
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Toronto, Ontario
- Full-time
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration between LN systems and other enterprise applications.
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Design Engineer - System Integration | NPI Engineering
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Montreal, QC
Proficient at learning new tools and new software
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Design Engineer - Structure Integration | NPI Engineering
BETA Technologies
Montreal, QC
Proficient at learning new tools and new software
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QC
Senior Embedded Systems Architect
Q-Block Computing
Ottawa, Ontario
- $130,000 to $165,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
Deep familiarity with mixed-signal systems, including ADC/DAC integration, analog front-end control, and timing-sensitive control paths.
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FPGA Engineer
Q-Block Computing
Ottawa, Ontario
- $105,000 to $145,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
About this role: The FPGA Engineer designs and implements the real-time processing and control logic that sits closest to Q-Block's quantum hardware - the fabric that acquires,…
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Embedded Firmware Engineer
Q-Block Computing
Ottawa, Ontario
- $95,000 to $130,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
The successful candidate is an embedded engineer who is genuinely comfortable at the hardware–firmware boundary, reads datasheets and schematics as a matter of course, and finds…
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DevOps Team Lead
LMI Technologies
Burnaby, BC
- $108,000 to $135,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
…cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, but also lead the integration of tools that automate code checks, predict deployment failures, and optimize cloud…
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Senior ERP LN TP Project and Planning Analyst
Armstrong Fluid Technology
Toronto, Ontario
- Full-time
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration between LN systems and other enterprise applications.
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Senior ERP LN Production Planning Analyst
Armstrong Fluid Technology
Toronto, Ontario
- Full-time
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration between LN systems and other enterprise applications.
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Staff Software Engineer, Identity and Access Management
Kong
Remote, Canada
- $163,685 to $245,800 CAD / year
- Full-time
- Remote
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Konnect team at Kong, you’ll architect Kong Identity's multi-tenant identity platform supporting complex organizational hierarchies, cross-tenant…
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Data Analyst
CI Financial
Toronto, Ontario
- Full-time
We are seeking experienced Data Analysts to support a large-scale data migration and integration initiative. You will be responsible for investigating existing data structures, analyzing…
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Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Precision AI
Calgary, Alberta
- Full-time
Apply strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and software design patterns to build reliable AI systems.
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AI Engineer - Generative & Agentic AI
BDO
Toronto, ON · Oakville, ON · Halifax, NS · Calgary, AB
- Full-time
We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer with a strong foundation in software engineering and a proven track record of building Generative and Agentic AI solutions. This new role is ideal…

Q-Block Computing

Senior Embedded Systems Architect

Ottawa, ON, Canada

$130,000 to $165,000 CAD / year · Full-time

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Pay: $130,000 to $165,000 CAD / year
Job type: Full-time
Experience: 8+ years of professional experience in embedded systems design, with at least 3 years in a system architecture or technical leadership role.
Posting language: English
Posted: Apr 15, 2026

Original job description

Location: Ottawa, ON (on-site)
Employment type: Full-time permanent
Salary range: $130,000 – $165,000 CAD per year; competitive salaries will be negotiated commensurate with experience - this range is a guideline

About Q-Block Computing: Q-Block Computing builds quantum systems that operate in the real world. The company develops quantum timing, quantum-secure communications, and quantum computing platforms engineered for the performance, reliability, and environmental resilience that mission-critical applications demand - systems designed to be deployed, maintained, and trusted by operators who cannot afford ambiguity about whether the technology works.

The long-term vision is deeper than any single platform. Q-Block is pursuing a mission to decode Nature's foundational model - to build instruments of sufficient precision and coherence that they become tools for understanding the physical universe at its most fundamental level. Commercialization and science reinforce each other by design.

About this role: The Senior Embedded Systems Architect shapes the embedded control platform that drives Q-Block's quantum hardware - the firmware architecture, subsystem interfaces, and engineering standards that let a distributed, real-time control system scale reliably across products and generations. The role carries the architectural authority for a platform that has to be deterministic, maintainable, and manufacturable at once.

The successful candidate is a senior embedded engineer with the judgment to make architectural decisions that hold up over years of delivery, and the discipline to build the abstractions, standards, and review practices that make those decisions real across a growing team. They are equally comfortable drafting an interface control document, reviewing a peer's DMA configuration, and making a defensible build-versus-buy call on an RTOS. The role reports into and works closely with the Technical Lead - Orchestration Control and senior leadership, and sets the technical direction for the Embedded Firmware Engineers on the team.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain the firmware and embedded systems architecture for a distributed, real-time control platform.
Establish subsystem interface specifications, communication protocols, and data pipeline architectures that enable deterministic, low-latency coordination across control units.
Evaluate and select microcontroller families, peripheral ICs, bus architectures, and real-time scheduling strategies based on system-level performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.
Design reusable firmware libraries, hardware abstraction layers, and board support packages that decouple application logic from hardware specifics.
Architect synchronization and timing distribution subsystems to support coherent multi-unit operation at sub-microsecond precision.
Lead firmware design reviews and establish coding standards, testing frameworks, version control practices, and development workflows for the embedded team.
Collaborate with hardware, FPGA, platform, and systems teams to translate system-level requirements into clean embedded design specifications.
Mentor and develop Embedded Firmware Engineers and related technical staff; conduct code reviews, guide architectural decisions, and raise the standard of engineering practice across the group.
Identify and mitigate technical risks proactively; lead root-cause analysis for system-level failures and ensure corrective actions are durable rather than cosmetic.
Contribute to technical proposals, architecture documentation, and IP capture processes as appropriate.
Stay current on emerging embedded architectures, real-time operating systems, and mixed-signal control techniques; bring useful advances into the platform deliberately.
Contribute to a culture of ownership, rigor, and honest technical discussion across the engineering organization.

Required qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering Physics, Physics, or a closely related field; Master's degree preferred.
8+ years of professional experience in embedded systems design, with at least 3 years in a system architecture or technical leadership role.
Expert-level C/C++ for embedded systems; proven track record architecting multi-module firmware platforms that have shipped and been sustained.
Deep knowledge of ARM Cortex-M architecture, DMA subsystems, memory-mapped I/O, and real-time scheduling (bare-metal and RTOS-based).
Strong experience designing hardware abstraction layers and reusable driver frameworks across multiple IC families.
Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring teams of embedded engineers, including code review, architectural guidance, and engineering-standards development.
Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to produce clear architecture documents, interface specifications, and design rationale.

Preferred qualifications

Experience with precision timing and synchronization architectures (PTP, hardware-assisted synchronization, deterministic clock distribution across multiple nodes).
Deep familiarity with mixed-signal systems, including ADC/DAC integration, analog front-end control, and timing-sensitive control paths.
Experience integrating FPGA-based co-processing with MCU firmware - AXI-style interfaces, shared memory, soft-core processors, or comparable patterns.
Experience with high-speed serial interfaces, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and automated firmware validation.
Experience with structured firmware release, CI/CD for embedded software, static analysis, and formal coding-standard enforcement.
Experience working in scientific, defense, or deep-tech hardware organizations, including the documentation and process discipline those environments require.
Experience recruiting and growing an embedded engineering team in a deep-tech hardware company.

Security and compliance requirements

Must be eligible to obtain and maintain Government of Canada security clearance, if required for assigned projects.
Must be eligible to comply with requirements of the Controlled Goods Program, if required for assigned projects.
Must be willing to participate in background screening, documentation, and compliance processes associated with security-sensitive work.
Ability to work effectively within security, export-control, and compliance-sensitive technical environments is an asset.

Personal attributes

Strategic mindset paired with execution discipline - able to hold architecture and delivery in mind at the same time.
Strong attention to detail, authenticity, and a sense of responsibility in all tasks.
Critical thinking and a strategic problem-solving mindset grounded in measurement and evidence.
Clear technical judgment and the confidence to make calls with incomplete information when the work requires it.
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to lead through influence as well as authority.

Benefits

Extended health care (including dental and vision)
Life insurance

Equal opportunity

Q-Block Computing is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to treating all employees and applicants with respect and dignity. Accommodations are available on request during the application and recruiting process.

Canadian citizens and permanent residents are strongly encouraged to apply. All interested candidates are encouraged to apply.

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Responsibilities

You will lead the architectural design and technical direction of the embedded control platform while defining software architecture and subsystem interfaces. Additionally, you will mentor a team of engineers and establish engineering standards for scalable real-time control systems.

Requirements

Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering or science field and at least 8 years of professional experience in embedded systems design. A minimum of 3 years in a system architecture or technical leadership role is required, along with eligibility for Canadian security clearance.

Skills

C/C++
Embedded systems architecture
ARM Cortex-M
Firmware design
Real-time control platforms
Hardware abstraction layers
DMA subsystems
Memory-mapped I/O
Real-time scheduling
Mixed-signal systems
ADC/DAC integration
Technical leadership
System architecture
Root-cause analysis
Communication protocols
Data pipeline architectures

Benefits

Extended health care benefits
Dental
Vision
Life insurance

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Keywords

Embedded Systems
Firmware
C++
C
ARM Cortex-M
Real-time Operating Systems
Hardware Abstraction Layer
Microcontroller
System Architecture
Control Systems
Mixed-signal
FPGA
High-speed serial interfaces
Hardware-in-the-loop
Technical Leadership
Root-cause analysis
Distributed systems
Data pipelines
Communication protocols
Embedded Firmware
Deep-tech
Defense
Scientific hardware
Controlled Goods Program
Security clearance

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