Manufacturing Software Engineer Intern - Winter 2027

Skydio•San Mateo, CA

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Strong coding fundamentals
Comfortable with Python
Patient troubleshooter
Comfortable asking for help when needed, and giving help whenever possible
Passion for hardware-software systems

Nice To Haves

Enjoy working on systems that involve both hardware and software
Excited by 'How It's Made' or 'Factorio' and want to work on the machine that builds the machines

Responsibilities

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.
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.