Internship: Robotics Behaviors & User Interfaces

Join Hydromea as a Robotics Software Intern and dive into the world of underwater robotics. You'll work hands-on with our EXRAY vehicles every day, from writing behavior logic to piloting the ROVs in tanks, on test missions, and even field deployments.

You’ll contribute to both production units and R&D projects involving long-term fish pen residency and autonomous underwater inspections. This is an opportunity to develop impactful software while staying closely connected to the hardware and real-life missions it powers.

Your Responsibilities

• Create and expand components of our control UI ("Navia") to integrate new sensors, visualize analytics, and enable more powerful operator tools.
• Help bring autonomy to the surface by building intuitive, data-rich dashboards for monitoring and control.
• Your work will directly affect how users command and understand our underwater robots.

Robotic Behaviors & Autonomy Integration

• Collaborate with the autonomy team to integrate behaviors and logic that guide our vehicles in semi- and fully-autonomous missions.
• Handle telemetry, behavior triggers, and system feedback — making sure our robots do the right thing, even when the pilot steps back.
• Embedded System Maintenance
• Contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of code running on microcontrollers (C) and Raspberry Pi systems (C++/Python).
• Most embedded foundations are done — your job will focus on bug fixing, refactoring, and refining performance, when necessary.

Your Qualifications

We're looking for someone who’s curious, hands-on, and ready to write software that moves real machines.

Swiss work permit or EU/EFTA/CH citizenship is required.

You should be comfortable with:

• Python for scripting, logic, and UI
• C and C++, for embedded and onboard systems
• Developing interfaces or dashboards using PyQt5 / PyQt Designer / QSS
• Working with communication protocols like UART, CAN, I2C, etc.
• Visualizing and interacting with real-time data
• git and git procedures (merge request, rebasing, conflict resolution, etc.)

Plus:

• You'll be piloting EXRAY regularly — in the lab, in the field, and on real missions
• If interested, you'll have chances to join deployments, testing missions, and R&D trials

Why Hydromea?

• Daily hands-on experience with advanced underwater robots
• A team of experts in autonomy, embedded systems, and robotics
• Mix of production and exploratory R&D work
• See your code deployed in the real world — and pilot the system yourself