During your internship at Wingtra, you will be fully onboarded into a small, highly cross-functional team working closely with the CTO. The team explores new technologies, prototypes product ideas, and turns early technical concepts into working systems that can be tested on real drones, real hardware, and real customer-relevant workflows. See our Search and Rescue solution WingtraSAR.ai as one of the many projects we work on.
This broad engineering role is for those who enjoy end-to-end building. Projects may involve firmware, drone hardware, electronics, mechanical prototyping, web tools, computer vision, machine learning, data analysis, or cloud applications. You do not need expertise in all areas; we prioritize curiosity, agency, engineering taste, and a proven ability to solve problems through building.
The starting date is ASAP if possible (or up to September 2026), and the duration will be 6 months or longer.
As a generalist engineering intern, you will work with and assist highly driven and experienced engineers to achieve ambitious goals. You may contribute across several of the following areas, depending on your strengths and the project needs:
We are looking for someone who is highly curious, self-driven, and comfortable working across disciplines.
You should be able to show that you have a:
The strongest candidates will have concrete examples of things they have personally built. We are especially interested in projects that went beyond coursework and involved solving real-world problems, your own or for others, and showed some sustained iteration on it.
You do not need experience in all of the areas below. A strong overlap with a few of them, plus high agency and strong learning ability, is more important.
Relevant experience could include:
We value independent builders who are creative, who love to learn, dig into complex systems and develop amazing new capabilities into them, and watch their creations go out into the real world and make a difference! Ideal candidates have independently developed technically serious projects - such as drones, robots, web tools, or CV/ML pipelines - driven by a genuine interest in making them work!
Wingtra is the world's leading VTOL drone producer, headquartered in Switzerland. Since its market entry in early 2017, Wingtra has partnered with more than 80 of the biggest surveying equipment dealers across 50+ countries worldwide.
Based in the heart of Zurich, Switzerland, Wingtra houses 100+ employees, out of which more than 40 focus on R&D. The majority of Wingtra's engineers are graduates of one of the best science universities in the world, ETH Zurich. The same engineers design and assemble drones in-house and form Wingtra's support team, which is based in Europe and the Americas.
Our WingtraOne drone carries best-in-class sensors that collect survey-grade aerial data. This technologically-superior VTOL UAV is used by mapping professionals for applications that range from surveying and mining, to wildlife monitoring. WingtraOne PPK offers an all-in-one solution: broad coverage, brilliant resolution and absolute accuracy down to 1 cm (0.4 in).
