Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2026) (Remote)

RTX

1d • $37,000 - $82,000 • Remote

About The Position

Are you ready to explore the world of aerospace and defense? Do you want to learn from and collaborate with some of the greatest minds in the industry? At RTX, our internships, co-ops, and full-time careers provide an exceptional foundation to work on complex problems, advance your skills and create a safer, more connected world. Discover opportunities to make a difference at RTX. Would you like to engineer software that provides businesses actionable, aviation data and allows family & friends to track their loved ones when traveling? FlightAware, part of Collins Aerospace, has built the world's leading aviation software platform, processing over 300+ million incoming messages an hour from almost 40,000 individual data feeds—more than 5 terabytes a day and growing! We provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flighttracking service and are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large. FlightAware is looking for a software engineering intern who is excited about what we're doing—you don't need to know anything about the flight tracking ecosystem, but you should be excited to learn and if you happen to be an aviation enthusiast, you’ll fit right in! As a FlightAware intern, you’ll be a full team member within a highly collaborative, ambitious, and future-reaching organization. Our engineering group champions intellectual curiosity, openness, and industryleading technical innovation. We invest in building excellent internal tooling and engineering support to create a productive and highly effective team that anticipates the future and leads by example. Our Engineering blog (Angle of Attack ) has posts from almost every wing (i.e. team) within FlightAware and gives a glimpse at the type of work each team does. If you would like to learn more about what our past interns have accomplished, visit My 2025 FlightAware Internship & 2024 Intern Summer Projects. Regardless of role, we expect excellent interpersonal and communication skills across all hires at FlightAware. We look for candidates who will thrive here, meaning they demonstrate clear communication, embrace open feedback, trust their colleagues, and are driven to execute, deliver, and complete projects independently and efficiently. This is a full-time internship, scheduled for May/June - August 2026 (approximately 12 weeks).

Requirements

• Requires a High School Diploma or equivalent and student must be pursuing a Bachelor's or advanced degree in an applicable discipline.
• U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or granted refugee or asylee status) as defined here: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62

Nice To Haves

• Academic and/or prior work experience with programming languages, including functional languages.
• Completed coursework in core computer science concepts such as objectoriented design, algorithm design, data structures, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.
• An obsession with writing elegant, high-quality, well-tested code; ideally languages such as Rust, Go, & Python.
• Ability to analyze complex issues, reason, think critically, and synthesize information.
• Flexible mindset and demonstrated ability to grow skillset and work across a robust and varied technology stack.

Responsibilities

• Work on a focused project to teach you the fundamentals of the software development lifecycle and give you an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution.
• Develop new and innovative technology in an agile environment that solves interesting problems.
• Collaborate with the brightest technical minds in building software products while leveraging advanced technology, researching groundbreaking concepts, and influencing new ideas to transform the aviation ecosystem.
• Learn alongside our industry’s most talented engineers and receive focused mentorship and guidance.
• We work in teams to solve problems, explore new technologies, and learn from one another.
• Attend daily team standup meetings and have regular one-on-one check-ins with your leader and mentor.

Benefits

• Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
• Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
• Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
• Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: High school or GED