Research Software Engineering Intern

Halo Industries•Santa Clara, CA

2d•$20 - $30

About The Position

Halo Industries is seeking a Research Software Engineering Intern to join their team. This role involves developing software for fundamental experiments in laser-materials processing and optical metrology, as well as characterization and optimization of prototype laser processing systems. The intern will contribute to optimizing the performance of existing tools and extending the company's 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.