Manufacturing Design Engineer Intern - Production Systems at Skydio

• Job Location Hayward, CA
• Seniority Internship
• Type Internship

Description

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility.

The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors to first responders, soldiers in battlefield scenarios and beyond.

About The Role As a Summer 2026 Manufacturing Systems Engineering Intern you’ll focus on the systems, data, and analytics that make production run: building and operating data pipelines, integrating MES and shop-floor data sources, and delivering operator-facing dashboards and analytic products that drive decisions across production, quality, and supply chain.

You’ll partner with manufacturing, quality, and software teams to translate shop-floor questions into reliable data products that surface root causes, monitor process health, and enable faster, more predictable production ramp.

How You'll Make An Impact (example Projects Below) Below are representative projects you may own.

Each is an opportunity to turn raw production data into reliable insights that scale to full production.

Integrate MES / shop-floor data into a central analytics platform Deliverables: integration plan (sources, schemas, cadence), ETL/ELT pipelines ingesting MES / PLC / test-stand data into Databricks (or equivalent), automated data quality checks, and documented data model.

Build near real-time production dashboards for operators and supervisors Deliverables: high-level and station-level dashboards (Looker/Tableau/PowerBI or embedded web dashboards) showing KPIs (OEE, yield, cycle time, WIP, rejects), drill-downs to failed units, and operator-facing views.