{"id":3740455,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dominion-dynamics-director-systems-integration","title":"Director, Systems Integration","company":{"id":43023,"name":"Dominion Dynamics","domain":"defendthedominion.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/dominion-dynamics","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"}},"role":"Aerospace","role_family":"Aerospace","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Ottawa, Canada","Montreal, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"DO-178C","optional":true},{"name":"DO-254","optional":true},{"name":"MBSE","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-01T17:23:38Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T22:41:25Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":38,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":38},"description":"Reports to: Senior Vice President, Aerospace Engineering\nType: Full-Time\nThe Role\nThe aircraft doesn't operate alone - it's one node in a system of systems that includes peer aircraft, control stations, ground sensors, and command posts, and someone has to own the architecture that makes all of it function together. That's you. You define how mission autonomy, sensors, and payload systems interface with the aircraft's flight management, GNC, and avionics, and how the aircraft itself interfaces with the control stations, the fighter jets, sensors, and command posts around it - so a decision made anywhere in that system translates into something every other part can safely execute.\nYou sit across the autonomy and mission systems side and the aerospace engineering side, and when there are disagreements on where a capability lives or how an interface should behave, you're the one with the authority to resolve it at the architecture level, not escalate it and wait for someone else to decide.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn the architecture for the system of systems - the aircraft, peer platforms, control stations, ground sensors, and command posts - defining how autonomy, mission systems, and the airframe/flight controls interface and interoperate across all of it.\n\nBridge the autonomy organization and the aerospace engineering organization - translating what autonomy needs from the vehicle into requirements the airframe and flight controls teams can build to, and vice versa.\n\nDefine and control interface control documents (ICDs) not only for mission autonomy software and the vehicle management/flight control systems, but also for all aircraft sub-systems.\n\nSet systems integration standards, review processes, and architecture governance for a program that's still defining both organizations underneath you.\n\nLead systems integration reviews and represent the integrated architecture at program-level design reviews.\n\nIdentify and resolve architecture-level conflicts between autonomy, mission systems, and vehicle-level constraints before they become schedule or safety risk.\n\nBuild and mentor the systems integration function as the team scales.\n\nWhat You Bring\nExperience architecting systems of systems that span software autonomy and a physical vehicle platform, not just one side of that boundary.\n\nA track record owning integration architecture across multiple engineering organizations, not just within one.\n\nDeep comfort with interface control and requirements management between software/autonomy teams and hardware/vehicle teams.\n\nExperience resolving architecture-level conflicts and trade-offs directly, with the authority to make the call.\n\nComfortable building the systems integration function itself, not just operating inside an existing one.\n\nEngineering degree in a relevant discipline.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience on an autonomous or uncrewed aircraft program specifically.\n\nBackground in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) or systems architecture frameworks.\n\nExperience with flight-critical or safety-critical systems integration (DO-178C/DO-254 or equivalent).\n\nExposure to RCAF, DND, or NATO airworthiness pathways for uncrewed systems.\n\nNo defence background required.\nWe've hired people who didn't tick every box. If this is the work you want to do, please apply anyway.\nWhy Join Us\nBuilding something meaningful starts with the right people.\nAt Dominion Dynamics, you’ll:\nShape Canada’s future by building real defence capability for the CAF and our allies.\n\nMake decisions that ship in a high-trust environment with short feedback loops and rapid iteration.\n\nMove fast, field faster, and work directly with the operator - our systems are in the field with the CAF now.\n\nHave an impact from day one with equity, responsibility, and direct access to leadership.\n\nIf you’re curious, hands-on, and driven by the opportunity to make a difference, this is where you belong!\nCompensation & Benefits\nCompetitive base salary and company equity*\n\nComprehensive health benefits\n\nAdditional equity granted based on impact*\n\nWe use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process, including screening and reviewing responses. 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