Robotics Software Intern

**Role Name: Robotics Software Intern** **About Manastu** **Manastu Space** is an Indian space-tech company founded by IIT Bombay alumni **Tushar Jadhav** and **Ashtesh Kumar** . It develops hydrogen peroxide-based green propulsion systems for satellites and launch vehicles that enable safer manoeuvring that is cost-effective and helps in debris collision avoidance with sustainable end-of-life deorbiting, thus address the growing needs and challenges of an increasingly crowded space environment. Our work sits at the intersection of advanced engineering, applied research and mission-critical systems, requiring deep technical capability and long-term thinking. **Website:** https://www.manastuspace.com **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/manastu-space/ **Email:** [email protected] **Duration:** 6 months, Onsite – Full Time Internship **Start date:** 19th October, 2026 **Reports to:** Robotics Software Engineer **Conversion:** Strong performers may be considered for a full-time offer (PPO) at the end of the internship **Location:** Turbhe MIDC, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra — Onsite, full-time. **What you will work on** – **Precision landing** — perception and control for landing the vehicle accurately on a target, including optimising existing code so it runs within the constraints of the onboard computer. – **Flight controls** — implementing and tuning control loops, diagnosing instability, and validating behaviour in simulation and on hardware. – **Path planning and optimization** — implementing planning and optimization algorithms, and reasoning about cost functions rather than only calling library functions. – **Flight controllers and sensors** — working directly with ArduPilot-based systems, configuring vehicles, and dealing with real sensor behaviour: IMU, GPS, rangefinder, camera. – **Linux and toolchain** — building, debugging and running your code on Linux, including on the target hardware rather than only on your laptop. **What we require** – **Strong C and C++.** You have written substantial code in these languages yourself and can explain your memory and timing choices. – **Prior hands-on drone experience.** **Flight controllers** , **sensors** , **ArduPilot** , and ideally precision landing. Configured and flashed yourself, not flown on someone else's setup. – **Control theory.** Not just the textbook version — you have tuned a real loop and can explain what the gains were doing and how you knew when to stop. – **Perception.** Experience with vision-based estimation relevant to landing on a target: detection, pose estimation, and the error sources that come with them. – **Path planning and optimization algorithms.** You have implemented at least one from scratch and can explain how it works, not only which library provides it. – **Linux systems.** Comfortable at the shell, with a build system, a debugger and version control as your normal working environment. – **Preference:** You have participated in Drone/Robotics related competitions IROC, SAE Aerothon, NIDAR, etc. **Education / candidate profile** * B.Tech/B.E./M.Tech/ students or recent graduates in Robotics, or related fields. * Typically 3rd/4th-year undergraduate, final-year student, or recent graduate. * Strong preference for candidates with substantial hands-on robotics/drone experience. **What to send us** **To: [email protected]; Subject - Robotics Software Intern Application** – Your CV along with the project portfolio, and a link to **code you personally wrote** — GitHub, GitLab, or an archive. Group projects are fine as long as you can say clearly which parts were yours. – A short note — a few lines is enough — on **one drone or robotics problem you solved** : what was broken, what you tried, and what the result was. Include the numbers if you have them. – Any **flight logs, plots, or test data** from work you have done. These tell us more than a project title does.