Worker Type
Supplemental
Job Description
Summer Internship Program
Our paid Summer Internship Program is designed to provide students with an immersive, hands-on experience within the aerospace and defense industry. Interns work alongside AV team members on meaningful projects involving cutting-edge technology while developing professional relationships, strategic problem-solving skills, and practical experience in a full-time work environment.
This is a 12-week, onsite program intended for highly motivated and passionate students who are currently enrolled in college or are recent graduates.
What you'd do
- Assist in improving product development processes by applying lessons learned and best practices such as modeling and simulation, design reviews, DFMEA, and lean product development methods.
- Support cross-discipline teams through meetings, documentation, and progress tracking to help ensure projects are completed on schedule.
- Participate in subsystem design, characterization, and performance evaluations under guidance of senior engineers.
- Assist in prototype builds and work with suppliers, contractors, and third-party engineering service providers.
- Help track and manage engineering tasks, schedules, and issues using established project management tools.
- Participate in design and technical review meetings to observe decision-making and problem-solving processes.
- Support documentation development, data collection, and test result analysis.
- Learn and help implement tools and templates that promote project engineering excellence.
- Apply company policies and standard procedures while developing professional engineering skills.
- Perform other duties and engineering support tasks as assigned by mentors or supervisors.Basic Qualifications
About AeroVironment
AV isn’t for everyone. We hire the curious, the relentless, the mission-obsessed. The best of the best.
We don’t just build defense technology—we redefine what’s possible. As the premier autonomous systems company in the U.S., AV delivers breakthrough capabilities across air, land, sea, space, and cyber.
- Starts
- 2026-09-29