Summer 2027 Internship - Thermal & Manufacturing Engineering

loftorbital; Golden (CO); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Summer internship

Job summary

Loft Orbital is seeking a Thermal & Manufacturing Engineering Intern to join our Golden, Colorado team for Summer 2027. You will collaborate with Mission Engineering & Analysis and AIT teams to improve material selection, preparation, and use in spacecraft assembly.

You will gain hands-on experience across materials, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing, taking ideas from CAD drawings to assembled satellite parts with documentation and validation.

Responsibilities

• Assist in selecting and preparing thermal interface materials for spacecraft assembly.
• Collaborate with Mission Engineering & Analysis and AIT teams on process improvements.
• Translate CAD drawings to physical parts and document results for validation.
• Support hands-on testing and documentation to support integration activities.

Job description

Wanna Join the Adventure?

Loft Orbital is looking for a Thermal & Manufacturing Engineering Intern to join our team in Golden, Colorado for Summer 2027. You'll work alongside our Mission Engineering & Analysis and Assembly, Integration & Test (AIT) teams to improve how thermal interface materials are selected, prepared, and used in spacecraft assembly.

This internship offers hands‑on experience at the intersection of materials, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing. You'll work directly with AIT technicians and engineers, taking your work from CAD drawings to physical parts used on satellites. You'll take a process improvement from initial experiments through validation and documentation, then see it used in spacecraft assembly.

Who We Are:

Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.

We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end‑to‑end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on‑orbit AI, national security missions, and more. Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years‑long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown, Loft's flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.

With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.