Join the Wingtra team and become part of this venture-backed robotics scaleup with a global and international team of 125+ dedicated Wingtranauts who want to see their actions have a positive and lasting impact on the world. Founded more than 8 years ago at ETH Zurich, Europe’s leading robotics university, our goal is to build the best aerial robots to digitize the world at the push of a button and set the basis for faster and better decisions. Wingtra provides efficient and reliable data solutions to a variety of industries ranging from mining, construction and agriculture to humanitarian organizations, environmentalists and wildlife monitoring groups.
We are reaching for the stars and together we might just get there. Open communication, asking hard questions and valuing diverse viewpoints are but a few things that will help us achieve our goals. Above all we will never stop learning and striving to help each other reach our maximum potential.
During your internship at Wingtra, you will be fully onboarded into the highly cross-functional team developing the flight behavior of Wingtra’s current and future drones. You will get the opportunity to work on real-world applied robotics problems with a focus on guidance, navigation and control, contributing to features that directly influence how our aircraft flies, navigates, handles disturbances and reacts to failures.
Your solutions will be used by customers operating in challenging environments worldwide. Beyond the technical work, you will take part in the daily life of the team, including technical discussions, flight-test preparation, reviews, feedback sessions and team events. We want to support your growth in a professional engineering environment that goes beyond the purely technical domain.
You will get hands-on experience across the full development cycle: from analyzing flight data and identifying improvement opportunities, to developing algorithms and embedded software, validating them in simulation and finally testing them on real aircraft. Your work will contribute to flight performance, robustness, safety and autonomy in customer-relevant scenarios.
The earliest starting date is August/September and duration will be 5 to 6 months or longer - applications for later in the year cannot be given priority. Thank you for understanding.
Responsibilities
- Explore, develop and deploy embedded C/C++ software features for the WingtraRAY platform and upcoming products
- Support the development, tuning and validation of flight control, state estimation, trajectory generation, transition and failsafe logic
- Work with simulation and real flight data to validate new flight features before deployment
- Contribute to the Wingtra firmware codebase, including sensor integration, actuator logic, failsafe strategies and communication between system components
- Analyze flight and system logs from internal testing and customer operations, and extend our Python-based log analysis and debugging toolchain
- Design and execute automated tests, hardware-in-the-loop or simulation campaigns, and in-field drone tests for your code
- Work closely with QA, hardware, production and app teams to ensure robust system integration and reliable product behavior
- Participate in team meetings, technical discussions, code reviews, feedback sessions and company-wide all-hands meetings
Requirements
- You finished your B.Sc. and are pursuing a M.Sc. degree in Software / Robotics / Mechatronics Engineering or a related technical field
- Strong interest in flight dynamics, guidance, navigation, control and estimation
- Comfortable developing in C / C++ and interested in embedded real-time and resource-constrained software systems
- Comfortable working in Python for data analysis, visualization and handling large time-series datasets
- Solid understanding of control systems, system dynamics, signal processing, linear algebra, recursive estimation and optimisation fundamentals
- Hungry to learn, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently on technical problems
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, with a good command of spoken and written English
- Collaborative, self-motivated and open to feedback, with a strong sense of ownership and engineering responsibility
- EU citizenship or enrollment in a Swiss institution required to comply with work-permit regulations.
Plus
- Familiarity with git, code review, CI and AI-assisted development workflows
- Experience with PX4, ArduPilot, MAVLink, Dronecode SDK or other UAV/autopilot software stacks
- Hands on experience with system identification and control tuning
- Experience with soldering, electronics debugging or hands-on robotics work
- Driving license (B)
If you enjoy teamwork more than being the individual superhero, and if you thrive in a feedback-driven culture and an exciting, unconventional yet structured and progressive start-up environment, we would love to hear from you.