UAS Software Development - Intern

Avidrone Aerospace
Avidrone Aerospace

Software Engineering

Kitchener, ON, Canada

Posted on May 30, 2026
Summary: As a part of our development team, you will learn and work on a range of mission-critical software projects. These may include new features to our mission planning workflow and flight control interface; ground control station enhancement; flight computer services; engineering tools to make our debugging, development and deployment processes more efficient; and software test, build, lint, and static analysis systems. Responsibilities: Develop software features for the aerial robotic system, which includes the ground station and the on-board computer. Participate in the software code review process. Perform internal and external research on software development best practices. Cooperate with product development and graphical design to develop new graphical interfaces according to design sketches. Port legacy systems from C++ to C# in a planned, verifiable manner. Create tooling to enable automation in key development areas, potentially including testing, data analysis, and operations workflows. Cooperate with the operations team to participate in drone field testing, verify new features, and develop testing programs. Create documentation for new features, processes, tools, etc. Minimum qualifications: Registered in a Canadian post-secondary cooperative work program. Pursuing a degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or a similar relevant technical discipline. Able to write clean, clear, documented, and testable code without requiring generative AI. The primary language will be C# but C++ and Python will also be necessary. Comfortable working on desktop (Windows) applications. Beneficial qualifications: Aviation experience (e.g. flying drones, working on relevant student teams, theory of flight courses, etc.). Robotics experience. Experience with the Windows Presentation Foundation, and .NET (Core) 5.0 or later. G driver’s license.