Engineering Intern

Job Description

About the Role
This internship offers year-round engineering-focused opportunities in Texas for current undergraduates and recent graduates. As a Firefly Intern, you will support Ground Support Equipment (GSE) Engineers through all stages of system design, construction, and activation, gaining design experience by developing novel solutions for challenging problems. The role requires creativity, flexibility, collaboration, and effective communication within multi-disciplinary teams, and ideal candidates will have knowledge in areas such as Mechanical Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering, Fluid System Design, Operations, Controls, or Construction.

What You’ll Do
• Design could include preliminary concept generation, sizing, costing, detail design, architecture layout, and drawing creation
• Construction could include reviewing designs with technicians, writing work instructions for fabrication, and conducting work inspections
• Activation could include writing, reviewing, or running checkout procedures, customer handoff meetings, and documentation
• Use engineering principles and fundamentals to provide novel solutions for technically challenging problems in the Internship focus area (Structural Design, Test, and Electrical Engineering, Fluid Systems, Test and Launch Operations, etc.)

You’re a Good Fit If You
• Must be currently enrolled in either a BS or MS program (or a recent graduate) at an accredited four-year university or college.
• Willing to work in a hands-on, constantly evolving environment
• Detail-oriented, managing multiple priorities while maintaining focus towards a common goal
• Strong comprehension of design fundamentals
• Communicates effectively, verbally and in writing
• Able to effectively prioritize and execute tasks
• Must be a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State to conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)

Bonus Qualifications
• Aerospace or Industry experience a plus
• Preferably have a focus in 3D CAD, Structural Analysis & Design
• Preferably have a focus in Fluid System design, equipment specification, valves & fitting specification
• Preferably have a focus in Electrical or Computer Engineering, instrumentation, controls, data acquisition