2026 Winter/Spring Intern (Dec-Apr) Verified today
The Opportunity
Join Astra as an intern developing advanced spacecraft and launch vehicle systems. Based on your interests, skills, and company needs, you will be matched to specific teams after the initial hiring process.
What You Will Do
- Design and Development: Work with senior engineers to design, develop, and test spacecraft and launch vehicle hardware.
- Systems Engineering: Support requirements definition, interface management, and integration activities for flight systems spanning spacecraft and launch vehicles.
- Mechanical Engineering: Assist with CAD modeling, design for manufacturability, and structural and thermal design of components such as thrusters, tanks, structures, or engine hardware.
- Analysis Engineering: Perform structural, thermal, or fluid analyses for spacecraft subsystems and launch vehicle components; contribute to trade studies that guide major design decisions.
- Testing and Verification: Participate in test campaigns including vibration, thermal-vacuum, propulsion performance, and structural testing to validate designs against flight requirements.
- Collaboration: Work on cross-disciplinary teams across spacecraft and launch vehicle programs to solve complex engineering challenges.
- Documentation: Support preparation of engineering drawings, test reports, and design documentation to industry standards.
- General Disciplines: If your background is in accounting, finance, marketing, HR, business management, IT, or computer science, you will support overall organization infrastructure.
What We're Looking For
- Incoming sophomore, junior, or senior at a 4-year institution or junior/community college (or currently in graduate school).
- Hands-on project experience through internships, research, senior design projects, or extracurricular activities.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
- Motivation to learn in a fast-paced environment.
Role Details
Pay: $22/hr
Start Date: Winter/Spring 2026 (December 2025 through April 2026)
Location: Alameda, CA
ITAR Requirement
This position requires compliance with U.S. Government space technology trade restrictions, specifically the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). You must be a documented U.S. Person or able to receive a trade license from the cognizant government agency.