Rover Team – Software UI Lead

Description

The Queen's Space Engineering Team (QSET) is a large multi-disciplinary team consisting of students from all programs within Queen’s University. 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 Software UI Lead, you will lead the design of a responsive, web based interface for science and drive operations with the goal of having a clean, intuitive dashboard that surfaces diagnostics, live video, autonomy overlays, and manual override controls with minimal latency. You will work closely with the Software Manager to ensure that the UI works as is required, as well as delegate tasks to software members. To keep updated with the project, the UI Lead must coordinate and attend weekly meetings with the larger rover subsystem teams. 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: July 24, 2025 at 10 PM

Responsibilities

• Attend rover system meetings and be an aid to software projects which will occur sequentially on Rover Sunday/Saturday.

• Redesign mission planning and data visualization interfaces.

• Develop a flexible control dashboard with configurable widgets and map overlays.

• Integrate real time ROS 2 data streams for live plotting and diagnostics.

• Incorporate low latency video feeds and overlay rendering.

• Run iterative usability tests and refine the UI.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

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

• Effective communication and time management skills.

• Object-oriented coding experience in either C/C++ or Python.

• Basic ROS2 experience (TF, ROSCPP, and ROSPY publisher/subscriber/services, actionlib, Gazebo).

• Awareness of real time data streaming and video technologies.

• Experience with any modern web development framework or rapid prototyping tools.

• General Linux experience.

• Strong UI/UX sensibility and willingness to iterate based on feedback.