Summer 2027 Engineering and Tech Internship

About the Role

Boom Supersonic is building Overture, the world's fastest airliner, and Superpower, an industrial gas turbine. Interns at Boom are embedded directly within core teams, tackling real, high-stakes engineering problems. You will take on more responsibility and ownership than anywhere else in the industry.

Work Location

• 100% onsite at Boom's headquarters located at 6803 S Tucson Way, Centennial, CO 80112.

Internship Duration

• 12 weeks, with flexibility to accommodate academic semesters.

Compensation

• Hourly pay rate: $35 per hour for Hardware, $40 per hour for Software.
• Housing allowance: $2,000.
• Additional perks: On-site meals and gym access.

Key Responsibilities & Disciplines

Materials & Manufacturing Processes

• Work on materials and processes for Superpower, Boom's gas turbine engine.
• Hands-on involvement in material selection, process development, lab categorization, and coupon-to-part testing for high-performance alloys.
• Own the process from ingot to forged disks and single crystal castings.
• Ideal Candidate:
• Solid fundamentals in material science of metallics and ceramics, with knowledge of strengthening mechanisms of nickel superalloys and thermal processing of ceramics.
• Hands-on experience in an M&P lab to test, categorize, and evaluate high-performance materials, including creep and LCF testing and metallography of superalloys.
• Exposure to and experience running machines for advanced processes, including printing nickel superalloys and fabricating ceramics for investment casting.

Manufacturing

• Support production processes to turn Superpower's designs into real hardware.
• Hands-on work across engine assembly, machining, tooling, and process development.
• Own a piece of the production process.
• Ideal Candidate:
• Hands-on manufacturing experience – time in a machine shop, on an assembly line, or building real hardware.
• Familiarity with machining processes, tooling, work instructions, or quality control in a production or R&D environment.
• Genuine curiosity about how complex hardware comes together and how to improve it.

Electrical or Embedded Controls

• Help design, build, and validate electrical or control systems for Superpower.
• Work includes instrumentation, controls, wiring architecture, and test systems.
• Connect hardware, software, and test to turn ideas into reliable systems.
• Ideal Candidate:
• Experience designing, integrating, or testing electrical systems (internships, research, Formula SAE, personal projects, industry experience).
• Familiarity with electrical design, controls, instrumentation, embedded systems, or hardware integration.
• Enjoys debugging complex systems and seeing hardware come to life.

Mechanical

• Define how Superpower comes together.
• Translate requirements into an integrated system, balancing performance, reliability, manufacturability, and testability.
• Partner closely with propulsion, electrical, and manufacturing engineers.
• Work across design, analysis, manufacturing, and test.
• Ideal Candidate:
• Experience designing, analyzing, or building mechanical hardware (industry, research, internships, Formula SAE, personal projects).
• Familiarity with CAD, mechanical design principles, manufacturing processes, or structural analysis.
• Genuine curiosity about how complex hardware works and a drive to iterate.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excited by working across disciplines with a highly collaborative team.

Turbomachinery

• Help design the core engine within Superpower and Symphony.
• Responsible for design, performance modeling, and detailed analysis of the engine.
• Work spans thermodynamic cycle analysis, aerodynamics & aeromechanics, internal cooling flow, mechanical & structural component design, combustion, and testing.
• Ideal Candidate:
• Experience with propulsion, turbomachinery, thermodynamics, fluids, combustion, or heat transfer (coursework, research, internships, industry).
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to connect theory to real hardware and experimental data.
• Excited by creating analysis tools and scripting multi-disciplinary workflows.

Software

• Build software that makes Boom's engineers faster.
• Embed directly with teams designing, building, and testing Superpower.
• Ship tools that remove obstacles for engineers on the shop floor or at the test stand.
• Ideal Candidate:
• Experience building real software people used (personal projects, open source, hackathons, production code from prior internships or research).
• Strong fundamentals in at least one serious language and fluency with modern AI development tools.
• Wants to see the impact of code directly on hardware and processes.

Special Projects

• Join Boom's team of universal problem-solvers for urgent or important company-wide issues.
• Own a real piece of a high-stakes, cross-functional problem.
• Drive critical projects, build analysis for major decisions, or stand up business processes.
• Ideal Candidate:
• Strong analytical horsepower – fast in a spreadsheet and able to turn messy data into clear answers.
• Track record of solving or leading something real (competition team, research, roles stretching experience).
• Comfortable in a spreadsheet and on a shop floor.
• Energized by ambiguity and ownership.

Requirements & Tech Stack

General Candidate Attributes

• Track record of building: Built real hardware independently, led a competitive design team, or executed high-impact work.
• Crave ownership, not hand-holding: Prefer diving into complex, ambiguous problems.
• Thrive under high stakes: Drive increases when problems get harder.
• Drawn to execution: Find the shop floor, lab, or test stand more exciting than a conference room.

ITAR Requirement

• Applicant 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 required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
• Candidates must be eligible to access export-controlled information and technology.