Are you a Systems Engineer who enjoys solving technical problems, working with multidisciplinary teams, and helping turn complex requirements into reliable ocean technology and defence-related systems? This role offers the opportunity to grow your systems engineering experience while contributing to meaningful work across requirements, architecture, integration, testing, documentation, deployment, and sustainment.
About JASCO
For more than 40 years, JASCO Applied Sciences has supported clients across energy, renewables, marine construction, defence, environmental assessment, and related sectors with sound science, technical excellence, and practical solutions. Our teams design, build, and support specialized systems that help clients understand and protect marine environments around the world. You will work alongside engineers, scientists, technologists, and project professionals who value collaboration, curiosity, practical problem-solving, and high-quality technical work.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Meaningful work: Contribute to technology and projects that support ocean science, environmental monitoring, and real-world decision-making.
- Collaborative teams: Work with engineers, scientists, technologists, project leaders, and operations teams who value practical problem-solving and technical quality.
- Growth and learning: Take on varied technical challenges and help improve how engineering projects are planned, coordinated, documented, and delivered.
- Flexibility and balance: Join a workplace that values professionalism, accountability, and work-life balance.
About the Role
In this role, you will support the development of advanced ocean technology and defence-related systems from concept through deployment and sustainment. You will help define requirements, support system architecture and interfaces, contribute to integration and testing, maintain technical documentation, and support configuration management and lifecycle activities.
You will work closely with software, electrical, mechanical, firmware, production, quality, and project engineering teams to help ensure technical solutions are clear, traceable, testable, maintainable, and aligned with stakeholder, customer, project, quality, reliability, and performance expectations. This opportunity is well suited to someone who is curious, detail-oriented, collaborative, and interested in building practical systems engineering skills.
What You’ll Do
- Support the capture, analysis, documentation, review, allocation, and traceability of stakeholder, customer, system, subsystem, and interface requirements.
- Assist with operational concepts, use cases, scenarios, system behaviour descriptions, trade studies, and technical discussions that support solution definition.
- Contribute to system architecture, subsystem relationships, functional allocations, interface definitions, integration approaches, and related technical documentation.
- Participate in requirements, architecture, design, interface, test readiness, and technical planning reviews with multidisciplinary teams.
- Support verification and validation planning, procedures, acceptance criteria, test execution, evidence collection, test reports, and follow-up actions.
- Assist with laboratory, environmental, production, field, and operational testing, including preparation, data collection, analysis, results documentation, and troubleshooting.
- Prepare and maintain clear technical documentation, including specifications, interface documentation, engineering reports, user documentation, verification evidence, and engineering records.
- Support configuration management, including change control, document versioning, configuration identification, issue tracking, and release processes.
- Coordinate with engineering, production, quality, and project contributors to clarify expectations, resolve system-level issues, and improve documentation, testing, integration, traceability, and knowledge-sharing practices.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, software engineering, computer science, applied science, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Typically 2–5 years of engineering experience; recent graduates with relevant project, capstone, internship, or co-op experience may also be considered.
- Working knowledge of systems engineering lifecycle processes, including requirements, design, integration, verification, validation, testing, and sustainment.
- Ability to support requirements documentation, interface definition, verification evidence, technical decisions, and test-result documentation.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills, with careful attention to detail.
- Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams and manage multiple technical tasks concurrently in a deadline-driven engineering environment.
- Commitment to continuous learning, practical engineering delivery, and clear technical documentation.
- Ability to successfully complete Reliability Status security screening, including applicable criminal record and background checks and any related residency requirements.
Assets
- Experience with requirements management tools, traceability practices, structured requirements documentation, configuration management, change control, issue tracking, or technical decision records.
- Experience supporting verification and validation planning, test procedure development, acceptance testing, test reporting, field trials, deployments, or operational testing.
- Familiarity with electronics, embedded systems, software development, mechanical systems, test equipment, sensors, communications, or production transition activities.
- Experience supporting marine technology, underwater acoustics, autonomous systems, defence systems, environmental monitoring, instrumentation, or related technical environments.
- Experience preparing technical reports, risk assessments, design review materials, customer-facing technical documentation, or operational support materials.
Security Screening Requirement
Because of the nature of the work, this position requires, at minimum, the ability to successfully complete reliability status security screening. This includes a 5-year criminal record check and a 5-year background check. To obtain this status in a timely manner, candidates must have resided continuously in Canada for the past 5 years. Please indicate in your resume or cover letter whether you meet the 5-year residence requirement.
Working at JASCO
At JASCO, Systems Engineers contribute to work that connects technical problem-solving with real-world environmental and client impact. You will join a supportive team that values collaboration, curiosity, thoughtful documentation, and practical engineering delivery while continuing to build your skills across the systems engineering lifecycle.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Health and dental benefits program.
- RRSP program.
- Flexible personal leave and vacation programs.
- Collaborative, inclusive, and supportive work environment.
How to Apply
If this role sounds like a strong fit, we would be pleased to hear from you. Please submit your resume and, if helpful, a brief cover letter outlining relevant systems engineering, technical project, capstone, co-op, internship, or engineering development experience. Examples related to requirements, design, integration, testing, documentation, or multidisciplinary technical work are welcome. Please also let us know whether you meet the 5-year Canadian residence requirement needed to support timely Reliability Status screening. We appreciate the time and interest of all applicants; however, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Equal Opportunity Statement
JASCO is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse workforce where people can contribute and do their best work. We welcome applications from qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, including individuals from underrepresented communities. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. JASCO will work with applicants to support disability-related needs, up to the point of undue hardship. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration based on objective criteria.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Experience:
- Systems engineering: 2 years (required)
Language:
Location:
- Dartmouth, NS B2Y 4S3 (preferred)
Work Location: In person
