Electronic Systems Engineering Intern

Chemix is seeking a highly-motivated in-person electronic systems engineering intern to help develop and expand our AI driven lab automation platform supporting our autonomous battery materials discovery and optimization.

Better batteries are a critical piece of humanity's transition to sustainable energy. As an electrical engineering intern at Chemix, you will contribute to our mission by building and maintaining the electronic hardware and software that enables streamlined data acquisition and lab automation. You'll make a fundamental contribution to developing the batteries that will power the electrification revolution in transportation and beyond.

As an early intern at a fast-moving startup, we expect you to quickly and creatively solve all kinds of technical problems, including those beyond your core expertise. An ideal candidate is able to learn quickly, is eager to stretch their knowledge of electronic hardware and software development, takes pride in the quality of their work, and wants to make a real impact in energy storage technologies for electric transportation.

Please note:

This is an on-site position at our Sunnyvale, California location, and not a remote internship.

The role focuses on developing systems for acquiring and processing digital and analog signals.

Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain our data acquisition systems for various types of laboratory data and use cases

Maintain and expand the codebases of our internal python libraries for lab telemetry, IoT, and machine vision applications

Implement new data acquisition infrastructure as needed to facilitate our expanding needs

Enforce good design patterns, principles, and practices throughout our codebase and hardware selection

Interface with our machine learning research staff, data engineers, as well as battery engineers and lab technicians to understand our software and data use cases, and design and implement solutions

Inform the optimization of the R&D process that generates our data

Requirements

Currently completing BS or MS degree in computer science/engineering, electrical engineering, or, currently completing BS or MS degree in the physical or chemical sciences, combined with substantial software and/or signal processing experience (including python)

Experience with a multitude of languages and language paradigms, especially statically typed, e.g. C/C++, Java, Rust, Scala, or TypeScript

Comprehensive knowledge of design patterns and experience writing flexible, maintainable software

Expertise in object-oriented software development

Experience with the python data stack, e.g. pandas, numpy, scipy

Experience with software dev-ops: git, testing, CI/CD

Clear communication and good people skills

Strong organization and ability to manage parallel projects

Nice to have:

Experience with developing for RaspberryPi and/or Arduino hardware

Experience capturing and processing analog sensor data in noisy environments

Experience with cloud web services (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc.), databases, and Docker

Experience with workflow orchestration tools, e.g. Dagster, Airflow, Prefect, Luigi

Public contributions to open source projects

Previous experience with message queues and/or pub sub architectures

Previous experience with manufacturing and IoT data

Previous experience with batteries and battery data

Familiarity with experimental chemistry and materials science

High GPA

Benefits

Free snacks and drinks

Fun, collegial startup culture

Competitive pay

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