Simulation Engineering Intern, Summer 2027

About Wing

Wing offers drone delivery as a safe, fast, and sustainable solution for last mile logistics. Wing’s fleet of highly automated delivery drones can transport small packages directly from businesses to homes on-demand, in minutes. Wing designs, builds, and operates its aircraft, and offers drone delivery services on two continents. Wing is part of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and its mission is to create the preferred means of delivery for the planet.

About the Program

This is a 12-week paid summer internship. This is a hybrid, in-person program based in Palo Alto, CA, with start dates in May or June. Eligible candidates must be a current student enrolled in a degree program and intend to return to the program after the completion of the summer internship.

About the Role

Wing is looking for a Simulation Engineer Intern to join its Simulation & Evaluation Team based in Palo Alto, CA. The team develops tools that enable engineers to develop, test and deploy features efficiently and at scale. The work spans vehicle physics and sensor modeling, large-scale simulation frameworks, test infrastructure for backend verification, integrated avionics and system testing, and foundational ML technologies such as world-modelling, 3D reconstruction and sim2real. The team is dedicated to ensuring simulation is the fastest and most reliable way to test changes to the system and to enable safer and faster feature development. The successful candidate is able to demonstrate adeptness at software development, system modeling and simulation, 3D geometry, and RL techniques.

Key Responsibilities

• Explore new and creative ways to use real-world flight data to help validate flight software.
• Build closed-loop simulation environments using real flight telemetry to enable counterfactual rollouts and policy evaluation for RL-based flight autonomy.
• Leverage large-scale simulation and data pipelines to run critical experiments, draw actionable engineering insights, and contribute alongside a dedicated team committed to supporting mentorship and growth.
• Make a measurable impact on Wing's ability to scale operations more rapidly.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• C++ and/or Python
• Experience with a numerical or statistics library and environment (e.g. numpy, scipy, pandas, Matlab, R, etc.) to analyze real-world data (e.g. fitting models, simple ML approaches).

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related field, graduating between December 2027 and August 2028.
• Strong examples of previous engineering experience from past internships and/or academic or extracurricular projects.
• Strong grasp of dynamical systems, linear algebra, 3D geometry, and vision-based autonomy.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts across disciplines.
• Thrives collaborating across multidisciplinary teams, spanning Simulation, Perception, and GNC.
• Ability to tackle complex, open-ended engineering problems.

Salary Range: $128,000 USD - $135,000 USD