Research Software Engineering Intern

Halo Industries, Inc. • Santa Clara, CA

6h • Onsite

About The Position

Halo Industries, founded in 2014 and supported by significant funding as of 2024, is transforming the semiconductor industry with innovative laser technology. The company focuses on creating efficient solutions that dramatically reduce waste and improve material performance across various sectors such as automotive, telecommunications, and power electronics. The Research Software Engineering Intern will develop software for fundamental experiments in laser-materials processing and optical metrology, as well as for the characterization and optimization of prototype laser processing systems. The hired candidate will contribute by optimizing performance of existing tools and extending the technology to new materials and processes.

Requirements

• Junior / 3rd year or recent graduate in Software, Electrical or Mechatronic Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics or a related field.
• Proficient in Python programming

Nice To Haves

• Experience in hardware control, instrumentation, and data acquisition, developing desktop GUI applications, or asynchronous concurrency
• Experience data processing, analysis and visualization
• Advanced skills and deep understanding of Python & its standard library: asyncio, context managers, static type system, threading, ctypes.
• Experience with lasers, optics, or semiconductors.
• Strong organizational and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand and extend a Python framework for laboratory instrumentation, machine control, and data storage and analysis, and its associated continuous integration pipeline.
• Develop software for alignment & test fixtures for laser processing modules.
• Develop drivers, control systems, instrumentation, visualization and analysis for laser machining experiments.
• Process, analyze and visualize data from experiments and production tools
• Work with electrical engineers, optical engineers, and mechanical and opto-mechanical engineers to understand and improve the experiments and procedures.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees