Manufacturing Software Engineer Intern

About the Role

As an intern on the Manufacturing Software team, you will be a core contributor, helping to manufacture high-quality drones, docks, and accessories at scale. The processes and tools you build will have a significant impact on the company's scale and success. This team is highly cross-functional and sits at the intersection of backend, embedded software, frontend, and electrical engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a Hardware-in-the-Loop system for continuous testing of hardware and software components.
• Design a deployment system for sending code to physical machines globally, with redundant safety systems.
• Build a visual configuration tool for documenting and changing mass production processes.
• Develop a robot calibration process to distinguish between hardware and software failures.
• Create a dashboard to visualize the factory state and help engineers debug faster.
• Develop an automated test fixture to assess sensors and actuators, minimizing operator interaction.
• Develop an AI-powered triage system to inspect drone hardware and suggest repair parts, combining LLM agents with the manufacturing API.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong coding fundamentals.
• Comfortable with Python.
• Passionate about hardware-software systems.
• Experience with:
• Python + Flask backend
• Protobufs for IPC and RPC
• React + Typescript frontend
• On-premises containerized Linux client machines and servers
• AWS backend cloud
• Hardware-in-the-Loop validation systems
• In-house framework for manufacturing and testing operations
• Experience with embedded software (C++/C) is a plus.

Qualifications

• You love building great products and enjoy working on systems involving both hardware and software.
• You are a patient troubleshooter, comfortable asking for and giving help.