Senior Mechanical Engineer
Role Overview
The Senior Mechanical Engineer will lead mechanical and mechatronic systems for traffic safety and intelligent transportation applications.
The role focuses on vision detection, AI, sensing technologies, product validation, manufacturing readiness, and field deployment.
This is a hands-on position with direct involvement in design, prototyping, testing, troubleshooting, and implementation.
Previous people management experience is required, with potential for formal team management as the role develops.
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About Global Traffic Group
Global Traffic Group develops traffic safety and enforcement technologies for safer roadways and connected communities.
About the Role
The Senior Mechanical Engineer will lead mechanical and mechatronic systems for traffic safety and intelligent transportation applications.
The role focuses on vision detection, AI, sensing technologies, product validation, manufacturing readiness, and field deployment.
This is a hands-on position with direct involvement in design, prototyping, testing, troubleshooting, and implementation.
Previous people management experience is required, with potential for formal team management as the role develops.
What You Will Do
- Design systems integrating cameras, vision sensors, radar, embedded hardware, software, and controls.
- Develop logic, control algorithms, and AI-enabled sensing, detection, classification, and data interpretation capabilities.
- Lead project scope, requirements, budgets, resources, risks, timelines, and stakeholder communications.
- Lead prototyping, testing, validation, and root-cause analysis for reliability, safety, and field performance.
- Support manufacturability, component specifications, assembly, production capacity, quality, cost, and delivery.
- Contribute to field testing, installation, troubleshooting, servicing, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor technical staff and maintain drawings, specifications, bills of materials, test plans, and engineering change records.
What You Bring
- A bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering discipline is required; a master's degree or PhD is an asset.
- At least 5 years of progressive mechanical or mechatronics engineering experience with senior technical responsibility and project leadership are required.
- Experience with integrated mechanical or mechatronic systems, sensing hardware, and field-deployed equipment is required.
- Strong AI, machine learning, computer vision, image processing, or AI-enabled sensing experience is required.
- Experience with manufacturing teams, suppliers, manufacturability, prototyping, validation, and scale-up is required.
- Previous people management experience and proficiency with relevant engineering and development tools are required.
- Traffic systems, intelligent transportation, automated enforcement, or roadway sensing experience is strongly preferred.
- P.Eng. registration or eligibility with APEGA is preferred.
Work Conditions
- This is a full-time, on-site position in St. Albert, Alberta.
- The schedule is 40 hours per week with eight-hour shifts from Monday to Friday.
- Travel may be required for testing, deployment, customer support, or supplier visits.
- Overtime flexibility may be required to meet deadlines.
Employment Conditions
The successful applicant must obtain a satisfactory criminal background check.
The successful applicant must be legally authorized to work in Canada.
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