Flight-Sim Software Engineer Intern

Textron Inc.; Lutz (FL); On-site; USD 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid stipend

Mentorship

Hands-on project work

401(k) vesting credit

Flexible schedules

Job summary

Textron Aviation in Florida is offering a 10-week summer internship for a Software Engineer role within the TRU Simulation team in Lutz. You’ll work on real projects with experienced engineers, contributing to the resolution of customer issues and software improvements.

This internship emphasizes mentorship, hands‑on training, and exposure to aerospace software, testing, and systems integration. Candidates should be pursuing a technical bachelor’s degree and be able to work onsite for the full

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal skills to liaison between the customer, engineering, and production.
• Strong oral and written communication.
• Definition, troubleshooting, resolution, and documentation of the solution.
• Some understanding of C, scripting, and source control.

Responsibilities

• Liaison between flight training device customers and TRU Simulation. Act as an advocate to the customer and communicate with TRU Simulation engineering and production teams to fix, deliver, and test solutions.
• Support code changes on existing and new projects
• Translate Customer issues into engineering terms and perform primary triage of issues.
• Ensure timely delivery of TRU Simulation deliverables to Customers.
• Provide regular reporting to Customer of issue statuses.
• Compile and test new loads on PC and on test rigs.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Oral and written communication

Problem definition & triage

C programming

Scripting

Shell scripting

Linux OS

Perl

Python

Troubleshooting

Realtime simulation knowledge

Aviation experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/Aerospace/CS

Tools

Git

Job description

Textron Aviation in Florida is offering a 10-week summer internship for a Software Engineer role within the TRU Simulation team in Lutz. You’ll work on real projects with experienced engineers, contributing to the resolution of customer issues and software improvements.

This internship emphasizes mentorship, hands‑on training, and exposure to aerospace software, testing, and systems integration. Candidates should be pursuing a technical bachelor’s degree and be able to work onsite for the full