Embedded Software Internship
About the role
Software-first embedded internship contributing to the architecture, code quality, and tooling for the HyLighter autonomous airship. Work on PX4/QGroundControl integration, hardware abstractions, CI/CD, and flight-software pipelines while gaining end-to-end responsibility.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to software architecture of onboard and ground embedded systems
- Develop hardware abstraction layers to control sensors, actuators, and subsystems as a single machine
- Improve CI/CD, automated testing, build/release tooling, and workflows
- Work with PX4-based flight software and QGroundControl to fit HyLighter needs
- Enhance robustness and reliability through testing and debugging
- Drive technical studies and system architecture studies for future features and payload integration/data-capture automation
Qualifications
- Final-year Master's degree (or equivalent) in Embedded Systems, Software Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or related field
Skills
Benefits
- 2000 to 2500€/month compensation
- Real responsibility and direct impact on cutting-edge autonomous flight technology
- Public transport reimbursement (Navigo) or €800/year for sustainable commuting
- Bike provided for commuting
- Free lunch
- Bi-annual offsite trips with the team
- Excellent international work environment and offices on a former airbase
About HyLight
Small unmanned hydrogen airships for long range monitoring
HyLight builds and operates autonomous airships for long range monitoring. We focus on detecting methane leaks on pipelines and defects on power lines. Our innovation, the HyLighter, is a crossover between drone and airship technology. Like a drone, it is easily controllable and transportable. And, like an airship, it is extremely energy-efficient, enabling it to fly for up to 10 hours at slow speed (22mph) for optimal data collection which represents a range of 220miles. Today, energy infrastructure operators struggle with conducting inspections that are simultaneously: massive and precise. HyLight offers a solution to precisely detect issues on the infrastructure at an industrial scale, and all of this without emitting GHGs. We are 3 co-founders experienced in hardware and energy companies with Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Business from the best Engineering and Business School in France. We have developed 5 different flying aircrafts and signed 5 pilots programs with major energy infrastructure operators. We also have LOIs worth over $3.5M.
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