Embedded Systems Internship: Firmware & Python

Spore; Paris; On-site; EUR 13,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Workspace equipment budget

Gymlib

Alan health insurance

Swile card

Quarterly team gatherings

Job summary

Spore in Paris is seeking a final-year Master’s/Engineering student to help operate Louis, our automated microscopy instrument. You will write embedded C/C++ firmware for our boards and the Python middleware that coordinates motion, illumination and image acquisition.

You will work at the hardware/software boundary, with on-site collaboration in a lab setting. English is required; French is a plus.

Qualifications

• Final-year Master’s or engineering student in Computer Science, Electronics, Embedded Systems, or related.
• Strong C/C++, plus clean and testable Python.
• Real understanding of hardware constraints, microcontroller architectures, and low-level debugging.
• RTOS and communication protocols (SPI, I2C, UART), plus motion and actuator control fundamentals.
• Comfortable reading a schematic, doing image processing in Python, and working with Git.
• Autonomous, rigorous, execution-oriented.
• English required, French a plus.

Responsibilities

• Firmware: embedded C/C++ on our boards, motion and illumination control with imaging-grade timing, sensor/camera/MCU interfacing, inter-board communication.
• Middleware & acquisition: Python hardware abstraction, instrument sequencing, state handling and error recovery; coordinating motion, illumination and camera triggering to get frames off the instrument reliably, with calibration, correction and acquisition quality checks.
• Bring-up: first boot on new board revisions, peripheral validation, low-level debug with a scope and logic analyzer.
• Tooling: visualization, batch processing over acquisition datasets, version-to-version comparison.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Embedded systems

RTOS

SPI/I2C/UART

Hardware debugging

Git

Education

Master's student

Engineering School student

Tools

Oscilloscope

Logic analyzer

Job description

Spore in Paris is seeking a final-year Master’s/Engineering student to help operate Louis, our automated microscopy instrument. You will write embedded C/C++ firmware for our boards and the Python middleware that coordinates motion, illumination and image acquisition.

You will work at the hardware/software boundary, with on-site collaboration in a lab setting. English is required; French is a plus.