UE Verification Specialist (Canada)

The role

The UE Verification Specialist will verify and validate GNSS receivers. This person will develop and execute testing protocols, verification and certification procedures, and analyze results to improve products.

What you will do

• Develop and execute test plans for GNSS hardware verification and certification.
• Develop test cases and scenarios to evaluate receiver performance.
• Expand existing test requirements into automated, repeatable workflows.
• Design functional and robustness test procedures for positioning, timing, interference, resilience, and environmental impacts.
• Analyze test data and generate detailed verification reports.
• Support field testing and validation efforts.
• Standardize data capture, storage, traceability, and reporting.
• Implement test workflow improvements for coverage, repeatability, and QA/QC.
• Stay updated on GNSS technologies, standards, and industry trends.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Geomatics, Electrical, Systems, or related engineering.
• 3+ years of experience with hardware and firmware testing and verification.
• Experience with different classes of GNSS receivers, RF hardware testing, timing systems, or related space systems.
• Strong proficiency in testing methodologies and tools.
• Demonstrated systems engineering experience with requirements, traceability, and V&V.
• Strong skills and demonstrated experience in Python-based scripting and automation in Linux and Windows environments.
• Working knowledge of networking concepts, troubleshooting, and other related tools and concepts.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with usage of GNSS simulation tools and equipment.
• Experience interfacing with GNSS receivers and familiarity with GNSS data formats and protocols (NMEA, RTCM, RINEX, SP3, proprietary).
• Experience with high-precision timing tests.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and structured software engineering practices.
• GNSS or navigation signal processing knowledge (GPS, Galileo, BeiDou).

Before you apply

• Must obtain and hold a security clearance at the reliability status level.
• Must pass security assessment for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.

About the company

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth. With Pulsar, Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system.