Summer Software Intern

What we're building

Our vision is to make it easy and accessible to manufacture a product. We're starting with a desktop Pick and Place machine, used to assemble electronic components onto circuit boards.

Existing Pick and Place machines are expensive and can require high-pressure air and three phase power. Some only accept job files on a floppy disk. Traditionally, Pick and Place machines have only been used by large companies with factory space, so that's how they're designed.

But they don't need to be this way. Our machines facilitate mid-scale manufacturing, where you make your product at a moderate scale before making the risky and expensive jump to a factory contract. With our hardware, anyone can do a production run of their product in-house.

What we're looking for

We're looking for someone that is excited by our vision, has experience developing software for robotics, and is ready to build something awesome.

You will be responsible for helping prototype and validate a series of software experiments that will inform new methods of machine control. Based on broad experiment definitions, you will form test plans, develop prototype software, run tests, and report on your findings. You will work closely with Engineering and Product to consider how new features could impact and benefit our user base. You will also help develop existing internal tools and release existing software as open source for the benefit of our community.

If you are excited at the idea of wearing many hats and enjoy taking ownership, we want you at Opulo as our Summer Software Intern.

This role requires that you're present in our Downtown Pittsburgh office.
 

Core Responsibilities

• Explore new projects for Opulo by building tools and experiments on top of our existing platform
• Build quick, proof-of-concept tests that validate if something is worth exploring
• Work on existing internal tools, and help standardize them for an open source release
• Regularly communicate with engineering leadership regarding project progress

Basic Qualifications

• Can communicate technical information clearly and concisely
• Experience developing with Python
• Experience with OpenCV
• Comfortable using Git for version control, particularly with Github

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with mechatronics controls, ideally using Gcode
• Experience with CI/CD tooling
• Experience developing in JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience with PCBAs and related manufacturing processes

What we value

We value these above all else:

• Mission - keeping our customers and builders in mind
• Pragmatism - making the most effective decision with the resources available
• Agency - taking total ownership of your tasks, and finding a solution regardless of roadblocks
• Kindness - showing compassion to our colleagues, customers, community members, and ourselves

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself contributing in some way, please apply!