As an Aircraft Engineering Intern at Swarm Aero, you will own a scoped project with a clear technical or business outcome, working directly with the people responsible for the system. You will design primary or secondary aircraft structure, mechanisms, brackets, or other flight hardware, create and revise 3D models and drawings, and support structural analysis, trade studies, and design reviews. You will also work with manufacturing and suppliers to resolve producibility issues and support component, structural, ground, or flight-test preparation. At the end of the summer, you will present what you built and learned.

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

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

Nice to have

· 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

Benefits

Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company
Competitive base salary commensurate with experience
Medical, dental, vision, and 401k
PTO and paid sick leave
Monthly wellness stipend
Daily catered lunch (office)
Paid parental leave
Direct impact on a critical national security mission
A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems