Summary: As a part of our development team, you will learn and work on a range of mission-critical firmware projects. These may include communications technologies and protocols between our drones and their remote pilot interface; integration of hardware and firmware systems from our technology partners; and engineering tools to make our development and deployment processes more efficient. Responsibilities: Develop end-to-end firmware/software features for the aerial robotic system, which includes the autonomous autopilot system, navigational sensor systems, and other on-board computers. Assist in building and validating performance models of our various airframe configurations. 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, tune operating parameters, and develop testing programs. Analyze our flight recorder data to produce performance reports as required. Create documentation for the new features, processes, tools, etc. Minimum qualifications: Registered in a Canadian post-secondary cooperative work program. Pursuing a degree in electrical engineering, software, mechatronics, robotics, or a similar relevant technical discipline. Able to write clean, clear, documented, and testable code without requiring generative AI. The primary languages will be C++ and C, but Python and C# may also be necessary. Comfortable working in a bare-metal real-time embedded development environment. Hands-on experience with electronics hardware and robotics systems development (sensor interfacing, data processing, real-time control, fault detection and mitigation, etc.). Able to use common lab equipment during development and debugging (e.g., oscilloscope, logic analyzer, multimeter, etc.). Beneficial qualifications: Aviation experience (e.g. flying drones, working on relevant student teams, theory of flight courses, etc.). Embedded systems development experience on ARM. MAVlink protocol experience. G driver’s license.