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About HyLight
We're on a mission to make the world more resilient to climate change.
We build HyLighters, autonomous hydrogen airships that fly silently over the planet's critical infrastructure, spotting methane leaks and preventing power outages and wildfires, all with zero emissions. By 2030, we want to be the global leader in aerial monitoring.
We've proven it flies. Now we're building the company to match the ambition, backed by Y Combinator and top-tier investors, with the resources to move fast and think big.
We don't care about traditional roles or titles. We just want people who are smart, proactive, and bring founder-level ownership. If you can bring a diverse point of view, push it forward: it will be highly appreciated.
Job Summary
You'll contribute to the software architecture of the HyLighter, our next-generation autonomous airship for aerial inspection and environmental monitoring. This is a software-first embedded internship: you will develop your embedded skills while contributing to architecture, code quality, and the tooling that allows a team to ship reliable flight software fast.
You will work on drone open-source software such as PX4 and QGroundControl (QGC), and contribute to defining how our onboard and ground software is structured, built, tested, and deployed. A key part of the mission is to help design clean abstractions over our hardware so that a HyLighter can be driven as a single, coherent machine, while contributing to the CI/CD and continuous-development practices that make the architecture maintainable as we scale.
Mission
Under the guidance of the CTO and Embedded team, you will:
Personal Note from Josef (CTO)
"This role is the backbone of how we build software at HyLight. We have flight code, ground tools, test benches and custom machines, and we need someone who can bring real architecture to all of it and the CI/CD discipline that keeps it reliable as we grow. If you love designing clean systems, working close to the hardware through PX4, and building the pipelines that let a team move fast without breaking things, this is your spot. The team is still small (around 18 people), so your architecture decisions will have immediate, visible impact."
Profile Sought
The following skills are not all mandatory. If you don't match everything but are motivated to grow, we want to meet you. We see this internship as a potential path toward future technical leadership positions at HyLight.
Education: Final-year Master's degree (or equivalent) in Embedded Systems, Software Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
Experience: Previous internship(s), academic projects, research experience, or personal projects involving embedded development, software architecture, robotics, drones, or autonomous systems.
CI/CD: Exposure to continuous integration / continuous deployment workflows through academic projects, personal projects, or previous internships (pipelines, automated testing, build and release processes).
PX4 / drones: Experience with PX4, MAVLink, and QGroundControl is a strong advantage, ideally through academic projects, student teams, research, or personal projects.
The following skills are not all mandatory. While you may not perfectly fit the profile, we highly value curiosity, personal growth, and development. We see our interns as potential future technical leaders at HyLight.
Technical Skills
Soft Skills
Languages
English and French (preferably).
Bonus Qualities
What We Offer
Why You Should Join
Interview Process
Location
Office: Base 217, Brétigny-sur-Orge, accessible via RER C
Lab and Warehouse access
You'll work side-by-side with experts in embedded, aerospace, and hydrogen propulsion systems, where your impact matters from day one.