Intern, Launch Engineering 2027

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Bring creativity to every design challenge and own your work through to completion.
• Own a scoped component, analysis or test task end to end, under the direction of an experienced engineer.
• Produce CAD models and engineering drawings to ASME Y14.5 GD&T standards.
• Run the analysis on your own work, including hand calculations and FEA, then check your predictions against test data.
• Work on the shop floor with machinists and technicians, and see your part get made.
• Support component and engine test: help write instrumentation requests, take test-day support shifts, and reduce the data afterward.
• Troubleshoot hardware, take part in root cause discussions, and carry the resulting changes.
• Present your work and your results to the team at the end of the term.

Basic Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program in a STEM field (Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or equivalent).
• Strong fundamentals in at least one of: fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, structural mechanics, kinematics, or heat transfer.
• Proficiency with CAD (NX, SolidWorks, CATIA, Creo, or Fusion 360).
• Comfort working hands-on with hardware, in a lab or shop, and with test equipment.
• A collaborative, self-directed working style, and comfort with ambiguity.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience seeing a mechanical design through to physical hardware — built, assembled and tested. Coursework, competition teams and personal projects all count.
• Hands-on prototyping, machining, brazing or welding.
• Engineering drawings to ASME Y14.5 GD&T.
• Working knowledge of FEA tools (ANSYS, Nastran, or Abaqus).
• By track: (Powerpack) rotating machinery, turbomachinery or rotordynamics coursework; (Mechanisms) mechanisms, actuators or deployable structures; (Fluids) valves, pressure vessels or fluid system sizing; (TCA & Thrusters) combustion, injectors or propulsion test.
• A track record of picking up an unfamiliar problem and closing it out with minimal direction.

Compensation

• (Quarter-long internship) — Paid $2,000 weekly
• Daily lunch in the office and a fully stocked kitchen with beverages and snacks

ITAR Requirements

• Export Control Requirement: To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about ITAR here .

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