R&D Engineer, Academic

Job Title:

R&D Engineer, Academic Applications Department: R&D Academic Solutions Team:
Academic Applications

Location:

Markham, Ontario Type of job:
Full-time, Permanent

Start Date:

As soon as Possible Our Promise to You

We offer a fast-paced, dynamic, and creative environment where your ideas make a real impact. You’ll work with driven, collaborative people who thrive in a culture of innovation and continuous learning. Quanser builds strong, authentic relationships, both inside and outside the company. If you’re looking for a high-growth company where you can do meaningful work and enjoy working with your colleagues, this is the opportunity for you.

We prioritize your long-term success through professional development, thoughtful leadership, and a clear commitment to work-life balance. If you’re excited to drive marketing programs that move the needle, we want to hear from you.

We have an immediate need in our R&D - Academic Solutions Department for an academic content and software professional. This position offers an exciting and challenging opportunity for a motivated professional.

You will be an integral member of our engineering team as you use your technical expertise, creativity, and modern digital media knowledge to develop engaging courseware, rich real-world applications, exciting demonstrations, and overall, help us improve the effectiveness and end-user experience for our systems. Depending on your interests, this position can easily be scaled to include a wide variety of diverse tasks such as electromechanical design, project management, product marketing, and sales support.

The ideal candidate has a degree in an engineering discipline, with a specialization in robotics or mechatronics, and very strong English writing skills. A strong understanding of how engineering courses are developed is essential, while experience as an instructor, teaching assistant, laboratory coordinator, or engineer would be an asset. Most importantly, you are passionate and dedicated to developing innovative approaches to education.

• Participate in customer-facing activities, including trade shows, webinars, customer training, etc.
• Some travel, including international, will be required
• The “go-to” person for technical knowledge related to Quanser’s extensive product line
• Some custom R&D and application development may be required
• Frequent collaboration with technical groups for courseware, applications, demonstrations, documentation, etc.
• Frequent collaboration with other departments in the company, including marketing, sales, and production

• A graduate degree in an engineering discipline specializing in robotics, or mechatronics, from a recognized University
• Near-perfect English writing skills with an ability to express complex concepts in a clear, engaging, and professional manner is required
• At least 1-3 years of professional experience in a progressive position in a technology company is required

• Expert skills in technical communication tools including but not limited to digital presentation and multimedia software such as Office Suite, Adobe Suite, LaTeX, etc.
• Experience with source control methodologies such as SVN, Git Hub etc.
• Strong knowledge, experience and comfort with using and developing with MATLAB/Simulink, Python, C++ 11 (or greater), and ROS2
• Comfort with tools including but not limited to Gazebo, Isaac ROS, Isaac Sim, Nav2 and Move It
• Experience in robotics frameworks and algorithms such as State estimation, path planning, computer vision and behavior planning
• Deploying software using development environments such as Docker
• Experience with multimodal sensor information in a robotics application
• Experience developing with Windows and Linux on a variety of targets (Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson etc.)

• Experience using DAQ systems to interface sensors and actuators
• Experience designing courses and developing course materials or teaching experience as a TA/lecturer
• Experience and comfort developing software applications for manipulators, mobile robots, drones, cars
• Experience using Ardu Pilot, PX4, QGround…