Software Programmer Intern

Amentum Advanced Solutions (AS) is a performance unit of Amentum Engineering & Technology Line of Business. Advanced Solutions specializes in the development, design, construction, and operation of unique and complex research & development, scientific, and test facilities, including wind tunnels, rocket test stands, climatic chambers, jet engine test cells, acoustic chambers, altitude test facilities, captive trajectory systems, and nuclear facilities. AS projects span the automotive, motorsports, defense, nuclear, and aerospace markets.

Recent clients include Audi, Boeing, BMW, Volkswagen, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, Honda, General Motors, NASA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Energy, and many others across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Amentum is looking for a Software Programmer Intern to support projects ranging from small studies to multi‑million dollar turnkey supply. Successful candidates must be team‑oriented, organized, able to communicate at all levels of the organization, and meet deadlines in a fast‑paced environment. Interns will work with a motivated team of programmers, engineers, and business professionals to ensure client satisfaction and deliver projects within scope, budget, and schedule.

Amentum is supporting the third phase of an advanced U.S. Navy test facility project that began over a decade ago and will continue for years to come. The initiative spans multiple engineering disciplines (process, mechanical, controls, software, structural), giving interns exposure to diverse aspects of engineering and hands‑on work with hardware. The software team drives all data acquisition and control room functionality, including reading sensor values through NI hardware, streaming data to Redis for real‑time GUIs, and storing data in Kafka for long‑term analysis.

Control room tasks involve building operator interfaces for monitoring, recording, and triggering test sequences, integrating site cameras, and communicating with PLCs to control moving components. About 95% of the code is written in NI LabVIEW, and training will be provided at the start of the internship, so no prior experience is required. As an intern, you’ll contribute to both data acquisition and control room development, gaining hands‑on experience with LabVIEW, Redis, Kafka, MSSQL, Git, and collaborative software engineering practices.

Test SLATE is Amentum’s flagship supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software platform, trusted for over 30 years in some of the world’s most advanced test facilities. Originally launched as TestVIEW in 1994, a LabVIEW‑based solution, it evolved into Test SLATE in 2006, introducing a modern C# user interface while retaining powerful LabVIEW‑driven backend capabilities. Today, Test SLATE is undergoing a major transformation to meet the growing demand for high‑speed, large‑scale data acquisition.

We are transitioning the backend from LabVIEW to open‑source technologies like Redis and Kafka, enabling the collection and streaming of hundreds of millions of samples per second. This upgrade supports next‑generation aerospace, defense, and automotive testing environments where performance and scalability are critical.

With over 600 installations worldwide, Test SLATE integrates data from diverse sources into a single, customizable platform, offering features such as real‑time data acquisition and visualization, sequencing and automation of complex test events, supervisory control and alarm monitoring, and historian and data sharing across distributed operator consoles.

Interns working on Test SLATE will gain hands‑on experience with LabVIEW, Redis, Kafka, C#, and modern software development practices while contributing to a solution deployed in some of the world’s most advanced testing environments, including NASA research facilities and high‑performance motorsports wind tunnels.

• Develop and test software modules for data acquisition and control systems using LabVIEW, C#, and .NET.
• Integrate hardware and software for real‑time data acquisition platforms (e.g.,…