2026 Mission Engineering Undergraduate Intern

The Mission Engineering Department (MED) drives integration of Aerospaces strategic capabilities across the national space enterprise. The department leverages a broad array of engineering disciplines against a diverse and dynamic portfolio of programs customers and national challenges. MED spans the capability lifecycle from concept and architecture design to performance assessment to application of space and space-enabled capabilities.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time on-site at our facility in Chantilly VA Huntsville AL Colorado Springs CO or El Segundo CA.

What Youll Be Doing

• Provide technical expertise and leadership in mission engineering methods processes and tools to a broad range of customers including National Security Space (NSS) Golden Dome America and other defense programs NASA NOAA and others

• Members of the Mission Engineering Department evaluate and assess customer mission-integration needs and/or challenges develop end-to-end mission threads and provide timely advice make recommendations to enterprise leaders on risks issues and gaps and develop recommended solutions to enable desired mission outcomes.

• Conduct mission analysis by examining operational objectives capabilities functions organizations systems data and networks to create the desired mission effects

• mission-engineering tradecraft (e.g. develop models) to build and analyze end-to-end effects-chains.

• Youll be working with collaborative teams that will be covering the breadth of the mission threads and performing innovative engineering analysis to assess capability performance for the mission thread.

WhatCorporateSkillsYoull Bring

• Strong initiative and perseverance to work in on dynamic projects

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Must work well in a team environment

• Possess organizational time management and project management skills

• Demonstrate flexibility and ability to adapt to changing organizational need

• Interpersonal skills to coordinate efforts and work with other internal and external organizations

What You Need to be Successful

Minimum Requirements:

• Currently enrolled full-time in an accredited college/university program pursuing abachelors degree or higher in Aerospace Engineering Systems Engineering math or related discipline

• Availability to work full-time for a minimum of 10 weeks outside of university term and ability to return to a degree program full-time after completion of the internship.

• Junior class standing completed by internship start date

• Minimum GPA of 3.0

• Experience designing or developing space systems or conducting space operations

• Demonstrated ability to be a successful team member on systems engineering teams projects or programs

• This position requires the ability to obtainand maintaina security clearancewhich is issued by the US government. U.S citizenship is to obtain a security clearance.

• Transcripts required

How You Can Stand Out

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:

• GPAof3.5 or higher

• Active security clearance

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with a diverse set of collaborators

• Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to present methods and results effectively in briefings formal reports and informal communications

• Exceptional time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects

• Demonstrated ability to learn new skills and acquire knowledge through self-study and proactive engagement with mentors and subject matter experts

Temporary housing assistance is not available.