Launch Engineer Intern

About the Role

This internship provides an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in energy systems, launch and test operations, and operations.

Position Highlights

• Launch Mechanical (Cape Canaveral, FL; Long Beach, CA)
• Perform end-to-end design of launch hardware, utilizing CAD, FEA, and hand calculations.
• Collaborate closely with the launch site civil and fluids engineering teams.
• High Power (Cape Canaveral, FL)
• Support design, installation, and activation of power generation and control, power distribution and protection, and sequencing systems used in launch operations.
• Designed, built, and tested Aeon R engine ground spin start system.
• Developed automation for precise control of ground system valve actuation.
• Oversaw design and build of load test boxes for Avionics hardware in the loop testing.
• Coordinated/developed interdisciplinary rocket and ground system architecture for Terran R.
• Tested flight quick disconnects.
• Implemented computer vision on robots to implement live depth data.
• Worked on test stand infrastructure to help run tests more often and more efficiently.
• Designed and 3D printed tools for rocket integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Gain hands-on experience in energy systems, launch and test operations, and operations.
• Perform end-to-end design of launch hardware.
• Support design, installation, and activation of power generation and control, power distribution and protection, and sequencing systems.
• Design, build, and test systems.
• Develop automation for precise control.
• Oversee design and build of test boxes.
• Coordinate/develop interdisciplinary rocket and ground system architecture.
• Test hardware.
• Implement computer vision.
• Improve test stand infrastructure.
• Design and 3D print tools for rocket integration.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• CAD
• FEA
• Aeon R engine ground spin start system
• valve actuation
• Avionics hardware in the loop testing
• Terran R
• flight quick disconnects
• computer vision
• test stand infrastructure
• 3D printing
• Basic knowledge of common fluid & structural components and instrumentation, such as valves, regulators, hydraulic actuators, pressure transducers, thermocouples, flow meters, accelerometers, strain gauges, load cells.

Qualifications

• Current undergraduate or graduate student earning degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related field.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and intense startup environment.
• Ownership of projects from beginning to end, with minimal oversight.

Compensation: $34–42 per hour.