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During your internship at Wingtra, you will be fully onboarded into a small, highly cross-functional team working closely with the CTO. The team explores new technologies, prototypes product ideas, and turns early technical concepts into working systems that can be tested on real drones, real hardware, and real customer-relevant workflows. See our Search and Rescue solution WingtraSAR.ai as one of the many projects we work on.
This broad engineering role is for those who enjoy end-to-end building. Projects may involve firmware, drone hardware, electronics, mechanical prototyping, web tools, computer vision, machine learning, data analysis, or cloud applications. You do not need expertise in all areas; we prioritize curiosity, agency, engineering taste, and a proven ability to solve problems through building.
The starting date is ASAP if possible (or up to September 2026), and the duration will be 6 months or longer.
Responsibilities
As a generalist engineering intern, you will work with and assist highly driven and experienced engineers to achieve ambitious goals. You may contribute across several of the following areas, depending on your strengths and the project needs:
- Prototype and test systems integrating software, electronics, mechanics, and drone hardware.
- Develop firmware and embedded software for microcontrollers and peripherals.
- Handle hardware tasks including soldering, wiring, debugging, and assembling test rigs.
- Design mechanical parts and enclosures using CAD and rapid prototyping tools.
- Build internal tools and full-stack applications using Python, TypeScript, or React.
- Evaluate CV/ML approaches for automation, mapping, and drone-related data processing.
- Contribute maintainable code to existing codebases and adapt open-source components.
Requirements
We are looking for someone who is highly curious, self-driven, and comfortable working across disciplines.
You should be able to show that you have a:
- Proven track record of building substantial projects independently (hobby, professional, or open-source).
- Self-directed learner comfortable with technical ambiguity and complex debugging.
- Strong engineering judgment focused on reliability over simple demos.
- Proficiency in spoken and written English.
- Degree (in progress or completed) in Robotics, CS, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
The strongest candidates will have concrete examples of things they have personally built. We are especially interested in projects that went beyond coursework and involved solving real-world problems, your own or for others, and showed some sustained iteration on it.
Plus
You do not need experience in all of the areas below. A strong overlap with a few of them, plus high agency and strong learning ability, is more important.
Relevant experience could include:
- Firmware / embedded: C/C++, microcontrollers, protocols (CAN, UART, I2C, SPI), and embedded Linux.
- Robotics: PX4, ROS/ROS 2, autopilots, MAVLink, GNSS, and simulation.
- Hardware: Hands-on electronics, soldering, debugging, and test rig assembly.
- Mechanical: CAD design for mounts/enclosures and rapid prototyping (3D printing, CNC).
- Software: Python, C++, TypeScript, Git, and maintainable Linux development.
- Web: Full-stack tools using React, Node.js, and cloud APIs.
- CV/ML: PyTorch, OpenCV, object detection, and edge deployment.
- Data: Log analysis, automation scripts, and large dataset processing.
What we care about most
We value independent builders who are creative, who love to learn, dig into complex systems and develop amazing new capabilities into them, and watch their creations go out into the real world and make a difference! Ideal candidates have independently developed technically serious projects - such as drones, robots, web tools, or CV/ML pipelines - driven by a genuine interest in making them work!
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