Aerospace Software Engineer Intern — Embedded & DevOps

ADP, Inc.; Frederick (MD); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Bascom Hunter seeks a Software Engineering Intern to support development, integration, and testing of software for aerospace and defense applications. Based in Frederick, MD, you will gain hands-on experience in embedded electronics, control systems, and mission-critical technologies.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, contribute to code, tests, documentation, and modern software practices including CI/CD and IaC.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as C, C++, or Python.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of fundamental software development principles and practices.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development, integration, testing, and maintenance of software supporting aerospace, defense, and engineering applications.
• Write, debug, test, and improve software using languages such as Python, C, C++, or other languages appropriate to the project.
• Learn and apply modern software development practices, including version control, code review, branching strategies, issue tracking, documentation, and collaborative development workflows.
• Use Git-based development workflows to manage source code, contribute changes, review code, and participate in team software development.
• Support containerized software development and deployment using technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Gain exposure to DevOps practices, including automated builds, testing, deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD.
• Assist with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated environment configuration using tools such as Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Develop and maintain automated tests using test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, integration testing, and system-level testing approaches.
• Create test scripts, utilities, simulators, and other engineering tools used to verify software behavior and system performance.
• Assist with software/hardware integration, including interfaces to sensors, embedded computers, communications systems, RF equipment, and other electronic hardware.
• Gain experience working with Linux-based development environments, virtualized systems, containers, networking, and distributed software applications.
• Use engineering ticket and project management systems to document tasks, defects, requirements, technical decisions, and development progress.
• Assist with data collection, processing, visualization, and analysis to support software testing and engineering evaluation.
• Participate in software design reviews, code reviews, technical discussions, sprint planning, and other engineering team activities.
• Collaborate with software, electrical, mechanical, systems, RF, and other engineers to understand system requirements and support integrated development.
• Research new software technologies, libraries, frameworks, development tools, and engineering approaches applicable to current projects.
• Prepare and maintain technical documentation, including software requirements, architecture and design documentation, test procedures, development notes, and engineering reports.
• Learn and apply good software engineering practices related to maintainability, modularity, reliability, cybersecurity, configuration management, and reproducibility.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Git

Linux

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/SE/CE/EE

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Bascom Hunter seeks a Software Engineering Intern to support development, integration, and testing of software for aerospace and defense applications. Based in Frederick, MD, you will gain hands-on experience in embedded electronics, control systems, and mission-critical technologies.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, contribute to code, tests, documentation, and modern software practices including CI/CD and IaC.