Mechanical Engineering Intern (Summer 2024)

Job Expired

Irvine, California, United States

$70-85k

Full Time

a year ago

Job description

Turion's mission is to build a sustainable future in space. Turion will launch its first DROID satellite in May of 2023. As a Mechanical Engineering Intern, you will help design and build our satellites and satellite mechanisms. You will be part of the mechanical engineering team and work on the conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design, analysis, fabrication, and testing of our vehicles and mechanisms.

Key Responsibilities

Design, analyze, manufacture, and test structural components and assemblies for our current and vehicles and mechanisms
Work with team members to define load conditions and requirements for specific assemblies and components
Generate detailed designs and conduct static, dynamic, and modal structural analysis as required, via hand-calcs and/or computational methods
Generate test plans, and coordinate component/assembly testing and documentation to ensure components function as designed
Capture and synthesize structural design approaches and knowledge to improve future designs
Identify opportunities to increase structural efficiency and reduce mass and cost

Minimum Qualifications

Experience with design, manufacturing, and testing of satellite systems and/or mechanisms
Hands-on experience in solid modeling, drawing release of structures, actuator mechanisms
Comfort working in a fast-paced, self-driven entrepreneurial workplace
Experience with Solidworks, and/or ANSYS
Enrolled for Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering Degree