{"id":3740442,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dominion-dynamics-landing-gear-engineer","title":"Landing Gear Engineer","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":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Montreal, Canada","Ottawa, 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":"Abaqus","optional":true},{"name":"ANSYS","optional":true},{"name":"Nastran","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-02T14:39:13Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-02","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T09:00:31Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"Reports to: Director, Aircraft Systems\nType: Full-Time\nThe Role\nDominion Scout is Canada's first autonomous collaborative platform (ACP) - a clean-sheet, sovereign aircraft built to operate in Canadian and Arctic conditions, with a support footprint well below a crewed fighter fleet. Landing gear takes the hardest loads the aircraft sees, packs into the tightest space on the airframe, and has to deploy every time, on northern runways, with no pilot onboard to work around a fault on approach.\nYou take Scout's landing gear from requirements to a qualified, assembled system: structure, extension and retraction, shock absorption, brakes, and nose-wheel steering. The demonstrator reuses proven, flight-worthy components wherever possible, so a large part of the job is selecting, integrating, and qualifying the right hardware with suppliers, then getting it built, tested and flown.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign and integrate the landing gear system - structures, kinematics, extension/retraction mechanisms, shock absorbers, brakes, and nose-wheel steering control.\n\nRun trade studies and evaluate static and dynamic loads, shimmy, fatigue, and damage tolerance for landing gear components.\n\nDerive system and subsystem requirements compliant with airworthiness regulations, and maintain traceability through verification.\n\nModel deployment, retraction, and drop-test dynamics with multibody simulation tools.\n\nPlan and execute ground & flight test campaigns, including software- and hardware-in-the-loop testing of gear actuation and steering control.\n\nWork with component suppliers and the manufacturing team through fabrication and final assembly, resolving issues on the floor rather than over email.\n\nWhat You Bring\nExperience designing, analyzing, or integrating aircraft landing gear systems on a program that reached hardware.\n\nStrong mechanical and structural analysis fundamentals - static and dynamic loads, fatigue, and damage tolerance.\n\nExperience with multibody dynamics simulation of mechanisms.\n\nExperience writing landing gear requirements against airworthiness regulations.\n\nHands-on test experience - rig design, functional & flight testing, and turning test data into design changes.\n\nComfort working directly with suppliers and technicians through build and assembly.\n\nNice to Have\nShimmy analysis and nose-wheel steering control design.\n\nBrake system and hydraulic or electromechanical actuation design.\n\nFEA experience (e.g. ANSYS, Abaqus, Nastran) on gear structures.\n\nLanding gear for uncrewed aircraft, or for unprepared, short, or cold-weather runways.\n\nIntegrating off-the-shelf gear components into a new airframe, and managing supplier qualification.\n\nClean-sheet or demonstrator aircraft programs, or defence and dual-use air programs.\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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