Rover – Drive System Lead

QSET rover team is looking to expand its executive team by hiring system leads. This expansion will enable general members to contribute to the team in a more meaningful and direct way. This position will run from June 1, 2024 to May 1, 2025.

Description

The Queen's Space Engineering Team (QSET) is a large multi-disciplinary team consisting of students from all engineering disciplines, in addition to the Faculty of Arts and Science. QSET designs a prototype Mars Rover for participation in the University Rover Challenge (for more information please visit urc.marssociety.org/home).

If selected as the Drive Systems Lead, you will work with the rover management team and take on greater responsibility for the design, implementation, and testing of the drive systems on QSET’s Rover. The successful applicant will work closely with the Rover CTO and the technical managers to coordinate designs between subsystems. To keep updated with the project, the Drive Systems Lead must coordinate and attend weekly meetings with the larger drive systems team. The rover management team will be at each of these meetings helping both in technical and managerial capacity.

The Queen’s Space Engineering Team encourages applications from women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ2S+ community. If you require accommodations during the interview process, please contact qset@ engsoc.queensu.ca.

Application Due Date: May 10, 2024 at 10 PM

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Rover CTO, Mechanical Manager and Software Manager to design manufacture and integrate all aspects of the rover drive system.

• With the help of the rover management team run weekly drive system meetings with general members, working towards furthering the state of the drive system.

• Work to become an expert on the past and current drive system and understand how the different parts of the drive system work with each other.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to research topics of interest, outside of current understanding, independently.

• Critical thinking and decision making, with a passion for engineering and design.

• Effective communication and time management skills.

• Ability to look at a system as a whole and investigate interdependencies.

• Some prior knowledge in one or more of the following fields, mechanical design, CAD, finite element analysis, and/or electrical design.

• Understanding of the basic principles of mechanical design (failure modes, material selection, design by user requirements, etc.).