Firmware Engineer Intern
Do you want to dive in the fast-growing industry of drones and get a rewarding experience in a dynamic scale-up environment?
At Flyability, we believe that robots should be sent into hazardous places and dangerous environments instead of humans. To support our belief, we created Elios, the world’s first collision-tolerant flying robot that can safely enter, survey, and inspect confined spaces so that people don’t have to. With more than 150 employees and 1’500 customers, Flyability is the market leader in the UAS indoor inspection industry. Joining Flyability is not just taking on a new job; it is seizing the opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people and contribute to the future of robotics. To complete our creative and dynamic team in Lausanne, we are seeking a:
Firmware Engineer Intern (100%)
Starting date: January 2027
Your role:
As an Firmware Engineer Intern, you will join our team to build and test embedded software in Rust. Depending on project needs and your interests, you will work on bare-metal firmware running on microcontrollers, on embedded Linux systems, or on both. This is a hands-on role at the intersection of hardware and software: you will write code that runs on real devices, bring it up on target hardware, and debug it with the tools that come with that territory.
What you will own:
Your responsibilities will focus on one or more of the following areas, based on project needs:
- Writing, debugging and profiling embedded Rust firmware for microcontrollers (no_std, embedded-hal, and an async or RTOS-style framework such as Embassy or RTIC).
- Implementing and integrating device drivers and communication layers over SPI, I²C, UART, USB, CAN or Ethernet.
- Contributing to bootloader and firmware-update strategies, including memory layout, image validation and safe rollback.
- Building data logging and data transport paths from the device to the host, from on-device storage to streaming interfaces.
- Developing Rust software for embedded Linux targets: userspace services, kernel interfaces (sysfs, GPIO, IIO, V4L2), and cross-compilation for a custom Linux distribution.
Requirements
Your profile:
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Embedded Systems or a related field - either in progress or recently completed
- You have written Rust outside of a graded assignment - a side project, a contribution, anything you built because you wanted to. You don't need to be fluent; the embedded-specific parts you will pick up here.
- Genuine interest in low-level software, and the willingness to open a datasheet and find the answer yourself.
- Enough C or C++ to read a vendor SDK.
- Good level of English. French or any additional language is an asse
Flyability is a Swiss company with over 10 years of experience that values independent thinking combined with a collaborative spirit. Every day, you will have the opportunity to share your ideas and contribute to solving problems. We all work together, and each voice is considered as we collaborate to achieve our goals.
Ready to join?
We know the confidence gap and impostor syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don't hesitate to apply -regardless of your past experience or resume, we'd love to hear from you.
Automated Screening Notice:Please note that Flyability uses automated eligibility questions as part of our initial screening process. If your application does not meet these mandatory requirements, it will be automatically excluded from further consideration. If you submit an application and believe it was incorrectly excluded by the system, you have the right to request a manual review. Please reach out to our HR team at [email protected] to request human intervention.