Aircraft Engineering Intern

Swarm Aero•2889 W. 5th ST, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results. The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic. An aircraft internship should involve more than updating drawings. You should be able to point to hardware and explain what you changed, why you changed it, and what happened when it was built or tested. Swarm Aero is redefining air power. We are building autonomous aircraft and Legion, command and control software designed to coordinate large numbers of heterogeneous autonomous systems. Our team combines experience building novel aircraft, scaling startups, and delivering technology for national security. You will own a scoped project with a clear technical or business outcome, work directly with the people responsible for the system, and present what you built and learned at the end of the summer. The goal is not to give you practice work. It is to give you useful work with the support to do it well.

Requirements

Currently pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related field, with graduation and enrollment requirements to be confirmed.
Experience with a CAD package such as NX, CATIA, SolidWorks, Creo, or Fusion 360
Fundamentals in statics, mechanics of materials, machine design, materials, and manufacturing
Evidence that you build things through a design team, Formula SAE, rocketry, UAVs, research, a machine shop, or personal projects
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., 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.

Nice To Haves

Composite or metallic aircraft structures
FEA tools such as Nastran, Abaqus, Ansys, or HyperMesh
Mechanisms, actuation, thermal, fluids, propulsion integration, or routed systems
GD&T, drawing release, machining, composites, or test experience

Responsibilities

Design primary or secondary aircraft structure, mechanisms, brackets, routed-system supports, or other flight hardware
Create and revise 3D models, drawings, and bills of material using sound GD&T practices
Support structural analysis, trade studies, tolerance work, mass-property estimates, or design reviews
Work with manufacturing and suppliers to resolve producibility, assembly, and inspection issues
Support component, structural, ground, or flight-test preparation and use the results to improve the design