Hive Robotics is building Europe’s first full-stack orchestration platform for unmanned systems: connecting, controlling, and commanding multi-vendor drone and robot swarms. Our RF communication systems are Made in Germany, deployed on active frontlines, and targeting a highly valued tactical communication market with zero sovereign alternatives today.
As a working student in test automation, you help us build the testing foundation for our embedded products: integration tests for our C/C++ firmware, Python-based system tests, and a hardware-in-the-loop setup that validates builds on real target hardware automatically. You establish the frameworks and conventions the development team builds on, in close collaboration with our developers.
This is a hands-on role at the boundary between software and hardware, with plenty of room to shape how we work.
Working Student HIL/SIL Test (m/f/d)
München
Part-time
Intern / Student
13.90 - 14.60 € per hour
Role
Responsibilities
- Build up our automated test infrastructure: design and implement integration tests for our embedded software, and integrate them into our existing CI/CD pipelines
- Establish test conventions, tooling, and coverage reporting that the whole team can build on
- Set up hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing: connect target hardware to our existing CI/CD pipeline so firmware builds are flashed and validated automatically
- Develop and maintain system-level tests, including test fixtures, scripts, and reporting
- Document test procedures and results so findings are traceable and reproducible
Requirements
Must Have
- Enrolled in Master's program in computer science, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related field
- Solid knowledge of C/C++ and Python
- Familiarity with Git and CI/CD concepts (GitLab CI, or Jenkins)
- Interest in embedded systems and comfort working with hardware: bench setups, debuggers, serial interfaces, and similar tools
- Structured, independent working style and the curiosity to find edge cases others miss
- Available for 20 hours per week
- Fluent English
- Be onsite with us in Munich
- Experience with a test framework (GoogleTest, Unity, pytest), or with HIL setups
- Advanced/fluent German
About us
We work in deep-tech and dual-use technology, an industry where women and other underrepresented groups have historically had limited access. We encourage you to apply even if you don't check every box below.
Hive Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications regardless of race, ethnic origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or marital status. Please don't include data on ethnic origin, political views, religious beliefs, union membership, health, or sexual orientation in your application.
Why Hive
- Build sovereign technology that matters. We build RF communication and orchestration systems for unmanned platforms across air, land, sea, and space, at a moment when European technological sovereignty is a real strategic question, not an abstract one.
- Real ownership, real deployment. Our products are already in serial production and in the field. What you build ships, and you see the result.
- Small team, direct access. Around 30 people. You'll work directly with founders and not through multiple layers of management.
- You shape the foundations. We're still building the structures, career paths, controlling, compliance, that let a fast-growing company scale well. You'll help decide what they look like.
- Modern Munich office, with the tools and equipment to do your best work.
What You Get
- Compensation. We benchmark salaries to stay competitive for the market and the role, not just what an early-stage budget can spare.
- Equity. You participate in Hive through equity/VSOP, a genuine stake in what we build, not just a paycheck.
- A role you shape, not one you're handed. We're too early for fixed job descriptions or a career ladder. What you own grows as you take on more, not by climbing steps someone else defined.
- No bureaucracy. Small, flat team. Decisions happen in a conversation, not a sign-off chain.
Hive Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications regardless of race, ethnic origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or marital status. Please don't include data on ethnic origin, political views, religious beliefs, union membership, health, or sexual orientation in your application.