Embedded Engineering Micro-Intern

Kairox builds Tempest, a low-cost fixed-wing drone that flies, dives beneath the surface, and flies back out. You’ll put real code and electronics on a real vehicle.

What You’ll Work On

• Integration and test — soldering, harnessing, power and signal validation, and bench checkouts of flight hardware ahead of field testing
• Autonomy — define the boundary between low-level flight control and mission-level decision-making. Integrate compute, stand up runtime frameworks, and develop mission logic
• Perception — sensor selection, integration, and calibration for VIO and computer vision pipelines, plus evaluating performance against real flight data

What We’re Looking For

Required

• Track record of independent technical projects or research, ideally ones that involved building physical hardware
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Python, and comfort working in Linux
• Hands-on electronics experience: soldering, reading schematics, debugging with a multimeter or scope
• U.S. Citizen

Preferred

• PX4 and/or ROS 2 development
• Real-time control or embedded systems experience
• Sensor fusion, state estimation, or VIO
• PCB design (KiCad or similar)
• UAV, UUV, or other robotics platform experience
• Fluency with AI-assisted development workflows

Above all: ownership, grit, and comfort operating with ambiguity at startup pace. You should prefer figuring things out to waiting for direction.

Email jobs@kairoxsys.com with any questions