Internship - Ground Support Equipment - Summer 2027

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.; Cedar Park (TX); On-site; USD 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO for exempt employees

3‑month sabbatical for every 5 years

Medical, dental, vision, life, and dis

Mental health services

Paid military leave

12 weeks paid maternity leave

$10k/year toward education

Stock bonuses

4% Safe Harbor 401(k) matching

$10k home purchase bonus in Cedar Park

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. in Texas offers year‑round engineering internship opportunities focused on Ground Support Equipment design, construction, and activation.

You will work with multi‑disciplinary teams across Mechanical, Electrical, and Controls disciplines to develop novel solutions for challenging aerospace problems. Candidates should be pursuing BS or MS degrees and excel in design fundamentals, with strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Must be currently enrolled in a BS or MS program (or a recent graduate) at an accredited four-year university or college.
• Hands-on, adaptable environment with strong attention to detail and priorities.
• Strong grasp of design fundamentals; aerospace or industry exposure is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to prioritize and execute tasks.

Responsibilities

• Design concepts including sizing, cost estimation, layout and drawings.
• Support construction activities with work instructions and fabrication reviews.
• Assist activation tasks including checkout procedures and customer handoffs.
• Apply engineering principles to develop solutions within Structural, Electrical, or Fluid focus areas.

Skills

Mechanical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Controls

Communication

Education

Pursuing BS or MS in relevant field

Tools

3D CAD

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

At Firefly, we’re focused on making space attainable for everyone - including you! Each team member’s passion, dedication, and innovative ideas have a direct impact on fueling our successful trajectory into space. And there’s no shortage of meaningful projects to work on at Firefly. With launch, lunar, and orbital vehicles, Firefly has a diverse line of business with opportunities to get hands‑on experience launching rockets, operating in space, and landing on the Moon.

Our missions are powered by our incredible team ...

Our Values

Headquartered in the Lone Star State, Firefly’s hardworking team reflects Texas’ GO BIG culture in everything we do. We build big, achieve big, and dream big. We’re building launch vehicles and spacecraft to provide rapid, reliable space access. We’ve achieved some incredible wins, including the first successful commercial Moon landing. And we’re dreaming bigger than this planet with ambitions to Mars, Venus, and beyond. Our core values are what drive us along the way.

Passion

Fireflies believe in perseverance, responsiveness, and mentoring others with a focus on inspiring a better future.

Accountability

Fireflies act with integrity and take ownership of our actions, commitments, decisions, and outcomes.

Fireflies work in alignment across teams and communicate clearly with mutual respect for one another.

Fireflies deliver high-quality work through technical rigor and timely disciplined execution for our customers.

We take care of our Fireflies with some of the best benefits in the industry. Our mission to make space for everyone starts with our employees and allowing them to make space for their family, their career, and their future.

Space for You

• Unlimited PTO for exempt employees
• 3‑month sabbatical for every 5 years of service
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Mental health services
• Paid military leave

Space for Your Family

• 12 weeks paid maternity leave
• 4 weeks paid spouse leave
• $20k towards family planning: fertility, surrogacy, adoption
• Dog friendly workplace

Space for Your Career

• $10k/year towards trade school or college
• Ongoing coaching to advance leadership skills
  • Employee-ownership with stock bonuses
  • 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) matching
  • $10k bonus for home purchase in Cedar Park, Texas

Job Openings

From launch technicians to propulsion engineers, Firefly has open roles across the company. We’re looking for passionate, bright innovators to join our team and help make space an achievable dream for everyone.

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24‑hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

SUMMARY

Firefly has year-round engineering-focused internship opportunities for our locations in Texas. Both current undergrads and new graduates are encouraged to apply. As a Firefly Intern, you will support the Ground Support Equipment [GSE] Engineers through all stages of system design, construction, and activation.

Ideal candidates will know specific areas such as Mechanical Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering, Fluid System Design, Operations, Controls, or Construction. You will have the opportunity to gain design experience by developing novel solutions for challenging problems. These positions require degrees of creativity, flexibility, and collaboration. The ability to communicate effectively within multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural teams, with differing technical backgrounds, is an absolute must.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design could include preliminary concept generation, sizing, costing, detail design, architecture layout, and drawing creation
• Construction could include reviewing designs with technicians, writing work instructions for fabrication, and conducting work inspections
• Activation could include writing, reviewing, or running checkout procedures, customer handoff meetings, and documentation
• Use engineering principles and fundamentals to provide novel solutions for technically challenging problems in the Internship focus area (Structural Design, Test, and Electrical Engineering, Fluid Systems, Test and Launch Operations, etc.)

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

• Must be currently enrolled in either a BS or MS program (or a recent graduate) at an accredited four-year university or college.
• Willing to work in a hands‑on, constantly evolving environment
• Detail‑oriented, managing multiple priorities while maintaining focus towards a common goal
• Strong comprehension of design fundamentals; Aerospace or Industry experience a plus
• Communicates effectively, verbally and in writing
• Able to effectively prioritize and execute tasks

Candidates should preferably have a focus in one of the following areas:

• 3D CAD, Structural Analysis & Design
• Electrical or Computer Engineering, instrumentation, controls, data acquisition

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.