Electrical S26
Title: WARG - Electrical Engineering Co-op
Positions: This posting will hire a single co-op student, to be managed by the following:
Compensation and Benefits Information: This position is unpaid.
Location Commitment: Due to the high degree of interaction with other sub-teams, physical hardware, and aircraft for this position, it is required that the co-op students are available to come to the bay (E5 1006) daily during the week. Our lab equipment, hardware, and aerial vehicles are in our bay which will be required for job responsibilities.
Time Commitment: You will have very flexible hours as you desire and are free to set your own schedule provided CEE requirements are met (at least 30 hours per week). We expect you to be available for some of our in-person team meetings which tend to take place in the evenings, flight tests which occur infrequently over the weekends, and a daily 1:1 with your manager.
Team Summary: Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group (WARG) is a student design team at the University of Waterloo competing annually in the Aerial Evolution Association of Canada's Student Competition. We are a passionate group of students focused on innovating the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle industry. We have successfully won our national competition two years in a row and intend on continuing the streak in the future. We take pride in building custom systems for our UAVs including developing an inhouse autopilot, frame, computer vision software, and electronics. The electrical team is responsible for electronic systems architecture, custom hardware designs, and validation of WARG’s aerial vehicles and ground stations.
Job Responsibilities: Will include a subset of the following depending on co-op interest.
Design, document, validate, and integrate a custom buck converter printed circuit board assembly for our aircraft using Altium Designer.
Design, document, validate, and integrate an ESP32-based ExpressLRS receiver printed circuit board assembly for our test aircraft.
Design, document, validate, and integrate CAN controlled peripherals for our competition aircraft.
Architect and Integrate electronic systems (i.e. video transmission subsystem and sensor subsystems) into competition and testing aircraft.
Write and maintain documentation for all projects using Confluence.
Desired Skills: We are looking for a candidate who possesses the following.
Curiosity to learn about hardware design following industry applicable standards.
A desire to build hardware solutions you’re proud of.
Interest in learning about unmanned aerial vehicle design, integration, and operation.
Strong communication abilities.