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Manufacturing Software Engineer Intern (Winter 2027)

Skydio

United States 🇺🇸

Onsite
Internship
AWS
Python
React
Software Engineering

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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