Summer GNC Engineer Intern - Flight Control & Simulation

Astro Mechanica CORP.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive hourly pay

Mentorship from experienced engineers

Company-funded team lunches

Company-funded game nights

Other activities

Job summary

Astro Mechanica is seeking an Intern to join our GNC Team for Summer 2027, starting June 7 (semester schools) or June 27 (quarter schools). You will work on guidance, control, and simulation for a clean-sheet autonomous aircraft, embedded with the team in San Francisco and mentored by senior engineers.

You will implement GNC algorithms, contribute to 6-DOF models, and develop tooling for design validation. This internship emphasizes real-world systems and flight-ready architectures in a

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Software Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Coursework, research, club, or internship in GNC, controls, or autonomous systems.
• Solid foundation in flight dynamics, control theory, modeling, and simulation.
• Experience with Rust, C++, or a comparable systems language, plus Python for analysis and tooling.
• Familiarity with software development best practices such as version control, code review, testing, and CI.
• Ambition to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Available for a full-time, in-person internship in San Francisco during Summer 2027 (10–12 weeks).

Responsibilities

• Help develop and implement guidance, navigation, and control algorithms for our products, with guidance from senior engineers.
• Contribute to 6-DOF dynamics and simulation models used for control design, analysis, and validation.
• Build tooling to automate control design, Monte Carlo analysis, and simulation validation.
• Work with peers across engineering disciplines to understand the control schemes and mechanisms for our products.
• Own a scoped project through the summer and present results to the team at internship end.

Skills

GNC experience

Control systems

Flight dynamics

Python

Rust

C++

Education

Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in Aerospace/Software/Robotics/EE

Tools

Python tooling

CI/CD

Job description

Astro Mechanica is seeking an Intern to join our GNC Team for Summer 2027, starting June 7 (semester schools) or June 27 (quarter schools). You will work on guidance, control, and simulation for a clean-sheet autonomous aircraft, embedded with the team in San Francisco and mentored by senior engineers.

You will implement GNC algorithms, contribute to 6-DOF models, and develop tooling for design validation. This internship emphasizes real-world systems and flight-ready architectures in a