Mission Engineering Intern (Fall 2026)Internships at Astranis typically last for twelve weeks, and are hourly roles designed for students who are currently enrolled at a four-year university.
As an Intern, you will have an amazing opportunity to work on hard problems - we pride ourselves on giving everyone at Astranis a chance to do meaningful work on challenging projects, no matter their seniority. Many past interns have designed and tested hardware/software that is heading to space on our first five satellites, and many of them are now full-time employees at Astranis.
Successful candidates will have a proven track record of projects in the aerospace field and a strong background in Python.
Role
- Work with mission engineers to design, create, test, and execute satellite operations procedures, including commissioning procedures and nominal operations procedures
- Investigate anomalies and work with the mission operations and engineering team to safely resolve them
- Participate in commanding activities of our first five operational spacecraft
- Help develop tools and processes to enable the Mission Operations team to maintain a high level of service uptime for our customer
- Automate manual processes using scripting and software tools
Requirements- Currently pursuing a B.S. degree in an engineering, physics, or computer science related major.
- Experience in scripting with Python
- Basic understanding of satellite systems
- Highly motivated, self-starting, and able to perform duties without supervision
- A passion for working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on development and testing
- Don't meet them all? Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria.
Bonus- Experience doing telemetry analysis and anomaly investigations
- Experience building operational software tools and user-friendly UIs
- Experience with software development tools such as Git