Avionics Engineer Intern

About the Role

This internship offers hands-on experience as an avionics engineer intern.

Position Highlights

• The Avionics team is responsible for the full lifecycle of electronics, harnessing, enclosures and secondary structure, instrumentation, and GSE hardware central to operating the company’s rockets.
• The team designs, builds, tests, integrates, and operates the hardware which controls the rocket in flight, downlinks critical telemetry, keeps the public safe, and deploys the company's customers' payloads to orbit.
• You will design innovative hardware solutions capable of surviving harsh launch and space environments.
• Your designs will support multiple vehicle systems such as sensors, propulsion, computing, actuation, energy management, and communications.

Key Responsibilities

• Electronics design and/or PCBA design
• Electrical harness design and routing
• Mechanical design experience with CAD modeling software
• Bring-up and integration of the electrical system of large-scale systems
• Development of electrical and mechanical test fixtures and tools
• Design for manufacturing, manufacturing process development, manufacturing execution systems
• Mechatronics Development

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled at a university in the USA pursuing a major in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Engineering, Packaging Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Safety, Supply Chain, Bioengineering, Industrial Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Construction Management, or Industrial and Systems Engineering.
• Obtaining BS or MS degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer engineering, manufacturing engineering, computer science, or related field.
• Prior experience in aerospace is not required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building electrical and mechanical systems.
• Familiarity with lab equipment like oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, signal generators, digital multimeters, power supplies, soldering irons, and hand tools.
• Collegiate engineering competition experience (e.g., Rocketry, Formula SAE, SAE Baja Racing RoboCup, NASA Rover).
• Prior internship or co-op experience.

Compensation

• $34–42 per hour.