Vehicle Systems Engineer Intern

Role Overview

This internship provides an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in engineering design, controls and automation, and operations. Within the department, one team focuses on building tools and processes to manage requirements, track decisions, and identify and mitigate risk - enabling faster, more informed development across the program.

Program Highlights

• Oversee the entire lifecycle of Terran R - from design and development to integrated testing, to launch.
• Opportunity to work alongside multiple groups including structures, mechanisms, fluids, prop, avionics, and integrated analysis.
• Types of activities you might be assigned: completing design trade studies, performing cross cutting analysis, driving requirements and verification planning to closure, creating automation scripts, developing concept of operations, planning test, reviewing data, and managing vehicle configuration.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineering design
• Controls and automation
• Operations
• Building tools and processes to manage requirements, track decisions, and identify and mitigate risk.

Required Qualifications

• Ability to see the big picture and drill down into details, performing detailed work.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity with the ability to define scope that drives the project forward and to completion.
• Willingness to jump in where and when needed on projects at various stages of the lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience through personal projects, club activities, or previous internships that encompass the entire lifecycle of a project.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with: Python, Jira, Confluence, Propulsion Systems, Mechanical Systems, Electromechanical systems, Robotics, Rockets.

Compensation

$34–42 per hour.