Aerodynamics CFD Tools Intern — Shape Seagliders

REGENT; North Kingstown (RI); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing Stipend

Daily catered lunches

Learning & professional development

Mentorship & guidance

Job summary

REGENT seeks an Aerodynamics Engineering Intern to bridge aerodynamics and software. You will help strengthen the CFD pipeline from job setup through post-processing, applying your tools to real aerodynamic calculations and validating models in real time.

You’ll join the Aerodynamics team within Hardware Engineering, contributing to tool improvements and workflow optimization while gaining exposure to the full CFD process and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Engineering foundation: you're currently studying aerospace, mechanical, or a related engineering field with coursework in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics.
• Hands-on CFD exposure and understanding of pre-processing, solving, and post-processing as a workflow.
• Comfortable in Python and Linux, with Git familiarity and HPC awareness.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen the CFD pipeline by building and refining tooling for job setup, scheduling, results handling, and post-processing.
• Apply the tools to real aerodynamic calculations for active programs and validate CFD models.
• Identify bottlenecks in current workflows and propose concrete fixes to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Engage with the full CFD cycle from pre-processing to solver execution to post-processing.
• Present results and impact to the aerodynamics team, showing how improvements change current workflows.

Skills

CFD basics

Python

Linux

Git

HPC know-how

Aerodynamics background

Navier–Stokes CFD

Education

Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering student

Tools

VLM

Lifting line

Navier–Stokes CFD

Job description

REGENT seeks an Aerodynamics Engineering Intern to bridge aerodynamics and software. You will help strengthen the CFD pipeline from job setup through post-processing, applying your tools to real aerodynamic calculations and validating models in real time.

You’ll join the Aerodynamics team within Hardware Engineering, contributing to tool improvements and workflow optimization while gaining exposure to the full CFD process and collaborating with cross-functional teams.