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Software Engineer Controls

Altair Engineering, Inc.
Canada, KY Full Time
POSTED ON 11/24/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/24/2026

Transforming the Future with Convergence of Simulation and Data

Software Engineer Controls

Job Summary:

Our client in Kanata, ON is looking for a Software Engineer Controls. This is a contract position.

What You Will Do:

Our Client is seeking to hire a person with embedded software development expertise. This team develops control algorithms and produces code for vehicle features related to climate, starting, locking, lighting, alarms, windows, powered enclosures, and seats.

Basics:

  • Bachelor's Degree.
  • Embedded Software. 3-5 years of experience, Blackbox testing is embedded systems. 
  • Automotive protocols CAN/LIN - candidate needs to have working level experience with them.
  • Test methodologies - we need good understanding how requirements translated to test cases.
  • Understanding of embedded SW automation testing on HW.
  • Knowledge of automotive protocols.
  • Python coding experience. 
  • Onsite position. Expected to be at least 4 days a week onsite. 

Preferred:

  • Automated Scripting - intermediate level of python. 
  • Requirement Analysis and review.
  • Define Test Strategy for Black Box testing which includes Functional and Integration level Testing.
  • Testcase Authoring.
  • Testcase Automation.
  • Test environment setup[Jenkins].
  • Analyse Test execution.
  • Results Defect creation.
  • Defect reproduction support.
  • Defect Triage Continuous quality improvement by analyzing the leaked defects and enhancing the Testcases.

How You Will Be Successful:

  • Envision the Future
  • Communicate Honestly and Broadly
  • Seek Technology and Business “First”
  • Embrace Diversity and Take Risks

What We Offer:

  • Competitive Salary
  • Comprehensive Benefit Package
  • Group Retirement Savings Plan (GRSP) with matching contributions
  • Paid holidays and vacation time off
  • Free training on all Altair products

Why Work with Us:

Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.

Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.

For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com

Ready to go? #ONLYFORWARD   

At our core we are explorers; adventures; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and unchartered waters, we dive headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.

Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair’s history demonstrations a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.

 

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