Hardware Test Engineer

About Remote Robotic Systems

Help build and validate advanced electronics operating at the intersection of aerospace, robotics, and defence technology. Remote Robotic Systems (RRS) is a Canadian robotics and defence-tech company helping organizations deploy enterprise-grade drones, uncrewed aircraft, robotic platforms, sensors, payloads, and remote operations technologies for mission-critical applications. Our solutions support customers across defence, public safety, security, industrial, infrastructure, energy, and government sectors. About Remote Robotic Systems

Help build and validate advanced electronics operating at the intersection of aerospace, robotics, and defence technology. Remote Robotic Systems (RRS) is a Canadian robotics and defence-tech company helping organizations deploy enterprise-grade drones, uncrewed aircraft, robotic platforms, sensors, payloads, and remote operations technologies for mission-critical applications. Our solutions support customers across defence, public safety, security, industrial, infrastructure, energy, and government sectors. Through our AirMetal team, we develop advanced aerospace, communications, and autonomous systems designed for demanding real-world environments. We’re a small, fast-moving engineering team that values ownership, technical depth, practical problem solving, and the ability to turn ambitious ideas into working systems. Team members have the opportunity to contribute directly to product decisions and see their work move quickly from concept to deployment. The Role

AirMetal is looking for a Test Engineer, FPV Electronics to develop the systems that validate the performance, reliability, and quality of our FPV and uncrewed-aircraft electronics. You will design, build, and operate automated test systems for flight controllers, electronic speed controllers, motors, cameras, video transmitters, radio links, and power systems. You will own testing from bench characterization through production end-of-line screening and flight validation. Your test data will help determine which components and vendors we use, which designs move into production, and where hardware or firmware changes are required. This is a hands-on role that combines electronics testing, software development, laboratory integration, production support, and flight-test validation. What You Will Work On

Automated Test Systems

Design, build, and maintain automated test fixtures, including bed-of-nails and pogo-pin jigs, thrust stands, dynamometers, environmental setups, and RF test benches. Develop test software, preferably in Python, to control test equipment, automate test sequences, and analyze results. Build test systems that log results to a shared database and maintain traceability by serial number. Integrate laboratory instruments, including oscilloscopes, electronic loads, programmable power supplies, data-acquisition systems, spectrum analyzers, thermal cameras, and load cells. Develop repeatable testing that allows production teams to screen units in minutes rather than hours. Electronics and Subsystem Testing

Test flight controllers for IMU noise, bias, vibration rejection, gyro-loop timing and jitter, sensor health, and communication-bus performance. Verify firmware flashing and configuration across platforms such as Betaflight, ArduPilot, PX4, and internally developed firmware. Characterize ESC and motor performance, including thrust, torque, RPM, efficiency, current limits, thermal behaviour, protocol conformance, telemetry accuracy, desynchronization, step response, and burn-in under load. Evaluate cameras and video systems for latency, low-light performance, dynamic range, image quality, and analog and digital link behaviour. Test RF and control links for output power, spectral compliance, receiver sensitivity, range, latency, and interference behaviour. Characterize batteries, regulators, and power systems for capacity, internal resistance, discharge behaviour, ripple, transient response, and brownout performance. Testing, Validation, and Failure Analysis

Develop test plans and procedures from product and system requirements. Report pass or fail results with clear supporting data and performance margins. Conduct environmental and reliability testing, including temperature, vibration, humidity, and accelerated stress screening. Qualify incoming components and vendor-supplied boards. Investigate hardware failures and work with suppliers on root-cause analysis and corrective action. Correlate bench-test data with flight logs from systems such as Blackbox, DataFlash, and ULog. Support outdoor flight-test campaigns and analyze results. Communicate failures, trends, and root-cause evidence to hardware, firmware, production, and supplier teams. Core Requirements

A degree in electrical, computer, mechatronics, or aerospace engineering, or equivalent demonstrated hands-on experience. Experience building automat