Engineering Operations Intern

Build real hardware. Assembly, integration, and test of MESH Box and SURGE systems - mechanical, electrical, and everything in between.

Own projects end-to-end. Scope it, design it, build it, test it, write it up. Fixtures, jigs, test rigs, harnesses, ground support equipment.

Run tests. Write test procedures, instrument hardware, collect data, and tell us what it means - in the shop and at the waterfront.

Wrangle the supply chain. Source parts, chase vendors, drive procurement, and keep the build moving when a component is three weeks late.

Unblock engineers. If it's slowing the team down - a missing tool, a broken process, a spreadsheet that should be a script - you fix it.

Whatever the mission needs. Seed-stage means the org chart is a suggestion. The interesting problems go to whoever grabs them.

Pursuing a degree in mechanical, electrical, aerospace, industrial, or a related engineering field.

Evidence you build things outside of class: FSAE, rocketry, robotics, solar car, a shop job, a garage project that got out of hand. Show us, don't tell us.

Raw horsepower, judgment, ownership, and execution. These matter more than your GPA or which classes you've taken.

Comfort with ambiguity. You'd rather be handed a problem than a procedure.

Willingness to get your hands dirty - literally. Warehouses, waterfronts, weather.

Command of English at a CEFR Level C1 (C2 Preferred). Bonus points for speaking a second language fluently.

Real ownership, real hardware, real deployments. Your work goes on systems headed for the water, not into a slide deck.

Seed-stage leverage. Everything is being built for the first time. The systems you set up become how the company works.

Learn from people who've done it. Daily, direct access to engineers from SpaceX, Anduril, Saronic, and Skunk Works.

Paid, flexible, and real. $20–$35/hour depending on experience. Semester, co-op, or summer - we'll build a 2–6 month window that works with your program.

A path forward. Crush it here and there's a return offer or a full-time conversation waiting.

We're a small team moving very fast on a mission that matters. Some days are CAD and spreadsheets; some days are a 4 a.m. drive to the waterfront to catch a tide window. We optimize for signal over noise. If you want a structured rotation program with a polished intern curriculum, this isn't it. If you want to find out what you're capable of when someone hands you something real, it is.

FOE is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with FOE is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.