Internship - Systems and Modeling Engineer

Description

Would you like to use your engineering skills to solve challenging, real-world problems that have a direct impact on national security?

Are you interested in figuring out how complex systems work, building models and simulations, developing software, analyzing data, or using physics and engineering to solve problems where the answer isn't already known?

If so, we'd love to have you join our team...

We are a multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists working on some of the nation's most challenging defense problems. Our work combines aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, software development, physics, mathematics, and systems engineering to understand advanced technologies and determine how they perform in realistic environments.

We are looking for curious, motivated students who enjoy solving difficult technical problems, learning new subjects, and working with others to contribute to high-impact projects.

One of our team's primary areas of focus is understanding advanced missile systems built by adversary countries and developing technologies that can protect the United States, our military, and our allies from those threats. That can mean building a computer model of a missile to understand how it flies, developing software to test hardware in a laboratory, analyzing sensor or radio-frequency (RF) performance, or exploring how emerging technologies such as directed energy and electronic warfare could be used in future defense systems.

You'll work alongside experienced engineers and scientists who will help you learn the defense applications while giving you opportunities to apply and grow the technical skills you're developing in school.

Your primary responsibilities could include:

• Develop models and simulations to understand how complex aerospace and electronic systems behave and perform
• Write software and develop tools used to analyze, test, and evaluate RF technologies
• Apply engineering fundamentals, physics, mathematics, and data analysis to understand the performance of missiles and defense systems
• Help design flexible software tools and applications used in hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) laboratory testing
• Analyze how current and future defense technologies might perform against advanced missile threats
• Work with engineers from multiple disciplines to develop and evaluate new approaches to challenging defense problems

You meet our minimum qualifications for the job if you...

• Are pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or a related technical field, with a minimum 3.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale
• Have experience programming in a language such as MATLAB, Python, C++, Java, or similar
• Enjoy solving analytical problems and learning new technical subjects
• Can communicate your ideas and technical results effectively
• Are interested in working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team
• Are able to obtain an Interim Secret level security clearance by your start date and can ultimately obtain a Secret level clearance. If selected, you will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship.

You'll go above and beyond our minimum requirements if you...

• Have coursework, projects, research, or experience involving flight mechanics, propulsion, guidance, navigation and control (GNC), or physics-based modeling
• Have experience with software development practices such as version control, testing, documentation, continuous integration, or object-oriented programming
• Have coursework or project experience involving radio-frequency (RF)…