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Intern Hardware Team

Delft
Q1 2025
Full-time
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Published on:
December 9th, 2024

Kitepower is on a mission to contribute to a more sustainable world by flying kites that generate electricity. Founded as a spin-out of Delft University of Technology, we are developing our first commercial system to power farms, construction sites and (island) communities with renewable airborne wind energy.

We are looking for an intern to join our hardware team in Delft. The hardware team is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining all physical components of our systems, for example the Kite Control Unit (KCU), kites and ground station.  You will have a challenging internship in renewable energy to apply your academic knowledge and gain valuable working experience.

😃 We offer:

  • Valuable working experience in a leading renewable energy start-up 
  • The freedom of taking responsibility and ownership of your own projects within a bigger development
  • An opportunity to make the world a better place
  • An open, supportive and inspiring working environment
  • A great team atmosphere in a fast-growing start-up!

Job Tasks

One of these three main projects:

  • Improving the Ram Air Turbine, used for generating onboard power to fly indefinitely, at different aspects: noise, size of the blades, breaking of the blades and more.

  • Developing a kite testing and characterization platform to support prototyping scaled, smaller kites, to facilitate the derivation of flight paths and controller settings for our larger kites of the system. This will also help to validate software models for kite design.

  • Improving an automated tether wear inspection system, working on a previous research where convolutional neural network (CNN)- based image classification was used to automate the inspections after each flight. Improvements possible in system design refinement, machine learning optimization, hardware integration and performance validation.


Next to that we can use your help for:

  • Identify and troubleshoot electrical and mechatronic issues in the current designs to improve system performance and reliability.

  • Conduct thorough testing and validation of mechatronic and electronic components to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.

  • Create and maintain documentation related to electrical and mechatronic designs, including schematics, PCB layouts, and assembly instructions.

Job Profile

  • Passionate about sustainability and renewables
  • Studies in Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Aerospace Engineering or related 
  • Experience with battery systems and energy storage
  • Knowledge about basic aerodynamics 
  • Problem-solving and curious mindset 
  • Good communication and organization skills 
  • Fluent written/spoken English 
  • Good observation skills and ability to give reliable feedback 
  • Knowledge of relevant safety standards and regulations for electrical and mechatronic systems.

And if you have more talents to offer… let us know!

Apply as Intern Hardware Team

Join Kitepower's Hardware team as an intern and drive the future of airborne wind energy!

🪁 Do you think you are the right intern for Kitepower? We are looking forward to getting to know you and discussing your possible contribution to Kitepower. A video interview will be part of the application process.

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