UAV Systems Integration & Test Specialist

UAV Systems Integration & Test Specialist

Engineering Full Time North York, ON $70,000 - $80,000 CAD per year

Superwake is an aerospace and defense company based in North York, focused on the design, manufacturing, and operation of advanced uncrewed aerial vehicles. Our work combines aerospace engineering and modern manufacturing to create reliable aircraft designed for a variety of applications.

Superwake is a small, fast-moving team where engineers and technicians work directly on complete aircraft systems, from early design and prototyping to testing and real-world operations.

We are hiring a UAV Systems Integration & Test Specialist to integrate our subsystems and validate them as a complete aircraft. At Superwake, small teams develop avionics, software, mechanical, and power systems in parallel, and this role is responsible for the interfaces between them. This is a mid-level role for someone who excels at hands‑on testing, debugging, and cross‑disciplinary problem‑solving rather than design.

You will conduct bench and flight validation and work with engineering, QA, and our flight operations team to resolve issues uncovered during testing. Our Quality Assurance function validates individual components against their requirements; this role focuses on how those components work together.

• Integrate subsystems from separate engineering teams, first on the bench and then in the aircraft.
• Read schematics, wiring diagrams, pinouts, interface specifications, mechanical drawings, and CAD assemblies to plan how a subsystem will be tested.
• Plan and run bench validation, integration testing, and regression checks against acceptance criteria defined by engineering.
• Operate and expand existing test rigs and validation tools, including scripts, fixtures, and test profiles.
• Identify conflicts between physical, electrical, and RF constraints, including envelopes, clearances, and keep‑out areas, before detailed designs are finalized.

• Maintain controlled configurations for autopilot and CAN peripheral firmware under the direction of the engineering lead. Qualify each release against a defined regression suite, document the results, and recommend whether it is ready for deployment.
• Review upstream Ardu Pilot changes to assess their impact on our board definitions, peripherals, and parameter sets, and manage parameter differences between versions.
• Track which firmware version, parameter set, and source commit is running on each airframe and CAN node.

• Partner with flight operations to translate engineering acceptance criteria into the information needed to develop test cards, and participate in briefings and debriefings.
• Support ground and flight testing in the field, including instrumentation, telemetry monitoring, and data capture, while following applicable aviation regulations and safety protocols.
• Turn flight logs and crew observations into findings that engineering can act on, and bring operational and crew considerations into design reviews.

• Reproduce, isolate, and document integration failures. Distinguish genuine defects from configuration and test setup problems, then work with the responsible engineer to resolve each issue.
• Read firmware and application code to trace logic and identify where observed behaviour diverges from intended behaviour.
• Capture and decode bus and network traffic to determine what data subsystems exchange and identify messages that are missing, malformed, or delayed.
• Write test plans, test records, and defect reports that are clear enough for others to follow.

Candidates often come from one of two backgrounds: systems testing and debugging or UAV…