Integrated Performance Engineer Intern

About the Role

The Integrated Performance Engineer Intern role focuses on manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities

• Model stage separation including plume impingement to inform trajectory design of an entry vehicle.
• Develop models and perform analysis for multiple payload deployment collision avoidance.
• Develop dynamic loads and levels for launch vehicle hardware to design and test to.
• Work with hardware designers to successfully execute to criteria established by the above.
• Model coupled dynamics of engine actuators in a full vehicle dynamics simulation.
• Develop a script to automatically update a dashboard that displays abort values for testing and launch.
• Perform CFD analysis of vehicle entry configurations, develop aero databases.
• Analyze flight and engine hot fire data to characterize dynamic response behavior of Terran R.
• Design, manufacture, and test hardware to aid in mitigation of dynamic environments and/or execution of dynamics testing.
• Process test data and flight data to ensure analysis predictions properly represent vehicle behavior.
• Upfront design work on creating a wall of truth for vehicle design.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Launch vehicle trajectory design and optimization including launch availability and flight safety.
• Experience with an engineering coding language like Python.
• Experience contributing to complex projects as part of a technical team.
• Passion for launch and entry vehicle physics, simulation, and operations.

Qualifications

• Current undergraduate or graduate student earning your degree in Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years relevant internship experience.

Position Highlights

• Flight Sciences (Aerodynamics, Thermal Sciences, Loads, and Dynamics)
• Integrated Structures Analysis
• Guidance, Navigation, Control & Vehicle Performance (GNCP)
• Systems Engineering
• Mission Reliability
• Product Engineering