Vehicle Engineering Intern (summer 2026)

Vehicle Engineering Intern (Summer 2026)

As a Vehicle Engineering Intern, you will work on spacecraft development projects while working closely with a fast-paced, agile team that strives to make a high-performance spacecraft from a clean sheet design. This internship will run from May to August 2026.

Department: Vehicle Engineering

Employment Type: Internship

Location: Redondo Beach

Workplace Type: Onsite

Compensation: $30.00 / hour

Responsibilities

Support our Vehicle Engineering team through the design and build of primary structures, tanks, supporting structures, mechanisms, and thermal management systems.

Support the design, analysis, and/or manufacturing of critical spacecraft hardware and testing equipment.

Work directly with other design and manufacturing engineers to produce and test hardware.

Resolve technical issues with innovative and resourceful solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

Completion or working towards a degree in engineering or science.

Ability to take project ownership and work well in a small team.

Demonstrated proficiency in basic principles of mechanics and materials, heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluids.

Preferred Skills and Experience

Hands-on experience working with mechanical systems.

Demonstrated experience getting a hardware project through the design, build, test phase.

Familiarity with CAD software and ability to learn new tools.

Familiarity with analysis programming such as MATLAB, Excel, etc.

Additional Requirements:

Willing and able to work on-site in Redondo Beach, CA for the duration of the internship.

This position may require overtime hours; interns are eligible for overtime pay.

Additional Information: Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity.

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of 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.

Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.