Manufacturing Software Engineer Intern (Winter 2027)
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Summary
Manufacturing Software Engineer Intern at Skydio building tools to manufacture drones at scale. Works across Python/Flask backend, React/TypeScript frontend, C++ embedded systems, and hardware-in-the-loop testing to develop deployment systems, calibration processes, automated test fixtures, and AI-powered triage for hardware diagnostics.
- As an intern on the Manufacturing Software team, you’ll be a core contributor, helping us manufacture high-quality drones, docks and accessories at scale to meet growing customer demands, turning prototypes into finished products
- The processes and tools you build will have a significant impact on the company’s scale and success
- This team is highly cross-functional. It sits at the intersection of backend (Python + Flask), embedded software (C++/C), frontend (React + Typescript), and electrical engineering (Robotics and Hardware Fixtures)
- If you have strong coding fundamentals, thrive on solving and debugging cross-functional challenges, and are passionate about hardware-software systems, this could be a uniquely rewarding opportunity for learning and professional growth
- Build and maintain a Hardware-in-the-Loop system for continuous testing of the hardware and software components of our drones and build systems
- Design a deployment system for sending code physical machines all over the globe, inside of challenging and hostile networks, with redundant safety systems
- Build a visual configuration tool for documenting and changing how mass production processes work and change on the fly
- Develop our robot calibration process that can distinguish between hardware and software failures and suggest next steps for assembly rework
- Create a dashboard that visualizes the state of the factory to help engineers debug faster
- Develop an automated test fixture that assesses sensors and actuators to minimize operator interaction
- How you’ll make an impact:
- Develop an AI-powered triage system that can inspect drone hardware and suggest which parts need to be repaired
- Build a framework that combines LLM agents with our manufacturing API in a loop to test the hardware, and compare results against a growing library of root cause failures and suggested reworks
- Our tech:
- Python + Flask backend + on-machine, 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
- You get excited by How It’s Made or Factorio and want to get paid to work on the machine that builds the machines
- You are very comfortable with Python and have strong coding fundamentals
- You’re a patient troubleshooter, comfortable asking for help when you need it, and giving help whenever you can
- You love having fun building great products and enjoy working on systems that involve both hardware and software