Actuation Engineering Intern; Summer

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.

REGENT's Viceroy and Squire Seagliders rely on actuators and drive systems that have to perform flawlessly in a demanding, real-world environment, and getting them there starts in the lab. As an Actuation Engineering Intern
, you'll work alongside our actuation engineering team to build test setups, run evaluations, and dig into vendor documentation to assess how different actuators and drives stack up against each other. You'll spend real time with real hardware, installing actuators on test stands, building jigs, and generating the data that directly informs which components earn a place on our Seaglider product line.

This role sits within our Electrical Systems team, part of Engineering & Technology, where hands-on rigor and clear-eyed evaluation matter as much as clever design. You'll be given increasing independence as the term goes on, moving from guided lab work to running your own experiments and assembling findings into a presentation that will genuinely shape the actuation approach for Viceroy and Squire.

If you've got your engineering fundamentals down and are looking for a chance to apply them to real test hardware on a team that’s reinventing coastal transportation, you'll feel right at home here.

• Build Real Test Setups: You'll construct test stands and jigs in the actuation lab, installing actuators and drives and getting hands-on with the hardware that powers our Seagliders.

• Evaluate Actuators and Drives: You'll run performance evaluations on actuators and drive systems, comparing them against similar models to understand tradeoffs and capabilities.

• Dig Into Vendor Documentation: You'll interpret datasheets and manuals and work directly with vendors to understand product specifications and communication requirements.

• Talk to the Hardware: You'll use programming tools like Python to communicate with actuators and drives, pulling data and verifying behavior firsthand.

• Support Qualification Work: You'll help qualify actuators and drives for service on Viceroy and Squire, contributing evidence-based assessments that inform real engineering decisions.

• Work With Assemblies and CAD: You'll navigate CAD models and help arrange actuation equipment within assemblies as part of your evaluation work.

• Present Your Findings: You'll compile the results of your assessments into a presentation for the mechanical and electrical teams, directly shaping the actuation approach used across our product line.

• Engineering Fundamentals in Place: You're a rising senior or grad student in mechanical, electrical, aerospace, mechatronics engineering, or a related field, with the core fundamentals already solid.

• Comfort With Hand Tools: You're mechanically inclined and comfortable working with hand tools, building jigs, and handling hardware constantly.

• Basic Programming Ability: You have working knowledge of a language like Python,…