The NCSG Internship Program is a collaborative summer internship sponsored by the North Carolina Space Grant and Collier Aerospace. We are seeking motivated and eager North Carolina State college students to join our NCSG Intern cohort. During this internship, you will gain hands-on experience with HyperX® and assist in integrating the software into customer workflows, contributing to the software interface and workflows and helping with documentation and training. Join passionate coworkers, learn industry-standard tools and methods, and make your mark as we continue to grow in the aerospace and software industry!

Required Qualifications

Candidates should have experience or strong academic preparation in aerospace structural analysis. The candidates should have many of the following capabilities:

• US citizen (required)
• In-progress bachelor’s degree in one of the following engineering disciplines;
• • Aerospace engineering
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Civil engineering
• Desired course work:
• • Statics (required)
  • Strength of materials
  • Composites
  • Finite element analysis (FEA)
• Ability to learn HyperX and understand its application in various industries
• Ability and desire to communicate and work directly with customers
• Ability to collaborate with different teams in the company with the goal of representing the customer's perspective
• Strong documentation, communication, and presentation skills

Roles and Responsibilities

• Learn and apply HyperX® to assist customers with their technical needs
• Work directly with customers & our application engineering team to understand their technical requirements and determine how HyperX® can support these efforts
• Document specific needs and features of interest of customers to communicate with other teams within the company
• Work directly with the application engineering team to ensure that software documentation and training exercises are useful and kept up-to-date.
• Work directly with the application engineering team to support the sales process through the introductory and product evaluation phases.

Why Collier Aerospace?

• Jump-start your career by working closely with experienced aerospace engineers.
• Gain exposure to real-world aircraft and spacecraft designs across commercial, defense, and space sectors.
• Small company – provides opportunity for involvement in many aspects of the business and gain many new hard and soft skills.
• Casual work environment

Our Why

At Collier Aerospace, our mission is to help our customers reach their unique structural analysis and design goals with more accurate results in less time. We are a team of passionate employees who want to contribute to each customer's goal in the best way possible across space launch, reusable rocket, commercial airframe, business jet, eVTOL, bike frame, and speed boat applications. We accomplish this with our leading software, HyperX, through software development and engineering support. As you join our team, you join our company mission and become an integral partner in increasing efficiency and innovation throughout the world.

Our Culture

We foster a highly supportive and collaborative environment where our meetings are a mix of brainstorming, analysis, and humor. When you’re stuck, our employees are always eager to lend a helping hand. We offer a relaxed and casual dress code to promote a comfortable atmosphere. Our passion and drive fuel us as we strive to make a lasting impact on our company, customers, and industry.