Mechanical Engineering Co-Op

At REGENT, we’re on a mission to revolutionize regional transportation between coastal cities. We're not just building vehicles, we're creating a new category of transportation: the Seaglider. These groundbreaking wing-in-ground-effect craft travel just above the water’s surface, combining the speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat. Capable of 180 miles at 180 mph on today's battery tech (and up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries), Seagliders will unlock fast, affordable, and sustainable coastal transit for passengers and cargo - connecting cities, islands, and communities like never before.

Backed by leading investors and powered by a team of passionate, forward-thinking engineers, builders, and operators, we’re now scaling from a breakthrough prototype to full production - and building the team to make it happen.

Role Overview REGENT's mechanical team is in the middle of a defining stretch of work: carrying Squire, our production Seaglider, through a full design and release cycle, while simultaneously shaping Viceroy from early concept into preliminary design. As a Mechanical Engineering Co-Op, you'll be dropped right into both efforts — designing parts in CAD, producing drawings, and supporting release on a vehicle headed toward production, while also contributing iterative design work on a program that's still taking shape.

This isn't an adjacent, watch-and-learn co-op experience; you'll be trusted with real parts, real drawings, and real ownership from day one.

You'll join Hardware Engineering's Mechanical team, helping take Squire from prototype to production. The fast-moving team values sound judgment in early design and disciplined production execution. If you have a foundation in mechanical design and assembly complexity and want ownership of flight hardware bound for the water, this role could shape your education or launch a career building Seagliders that will reinvent coastal transportation.

What You'll DoDesign and Release Squire Hardware:
You'll design mechanical parts in CAD and carry them through release, stepping into a production cycle where your drawings become real hardware on REGENT's Seaglider platform. It's the kind of direct contribution that goes well beyond a typical co-op assignment.

Help Shape Viceroy From Concept Forward:
You'll jump into Viceroy while it's still being defined, doing the iterative CAD work that shapes a vehicle's geometry before anything is locked in. Bring solid engineering instincts and your early ideas will hold up, not get reworked from scratch.

Draft With Precision: A large part of your time will go toward engineering drawings and tolerancing, turning design intent into documentation our team and manufacturing partners can actually build from. If you already have a good eye for drafting, this is where it gets put to work immediately.

Support Manufacturing and Integration:
You'll work alongside technicians during build and integration, helping fit checks go smoothly and feeding what you learn on the floor straight back into your CAD models. It's a fast feedback loop that sharpens your design judgment quickly.

Own Systems End to End:
You'll take a reasonably scoped project from concept through integration, with support from senior engineers, and build toward real ownership of at least one system on the vehicle. By the end, you'll have a portfolio of work that stands on its own, whether you're headed back to finish school or straight into a full-time role.

What You'll Bring Comfort Inside Complex Systems:
Whether it came from an internship, a competition team, or a school project that got surprisingly real, you've worked inside assemblies where parts depend on each other. You're used to thinking several components deep…