Mechanical Engineer Intern (Summer 2025)
Turion Space
Other Engineering
Irvine, CA, USA
Posted on Mar 19, 2025
Introduction -
Turion's mission is to build a sustainable future in space. Turion has successfully launched two of its DROID satellites into orbit. 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.
Turion's mission is to build a sustainable future in space. Turion has successfully launched two of its DROID satellites into orbit. 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.
- Department
- Vehicle Design / Analysis / Integration
- Employment Type
- Internship
- Location
- Irvine, California
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Compensation
- $70,000 - $85,000 / year
Key Responsibilities
- Design, analyze, manufacture, and test structural components and assemblies for our 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
- Prepare and maintain accurate documentation, including design specifications, test reports and drawings
Required 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
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, self-driven entrepreneurial workplace
- Experience with Solidworks or other CAD software
- Enrolled for Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering Degree
ITAR Requirements:
- This position may include access to technology and/or software source code that is subject to U.S. export controls. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About Turion Space
Turion Space was founded with the vision of propelling humanity toward an interplanetary future. To realize this vision, we are developing cutting-edge spacecraft focused on space transport, orbital debris removal, and Space Domain Awareness (SDA) to ensure ongoing value creation. Our mission centers on advancing spacecraft for low-earth orbit (LEO) and enhancing SDA, which are essential for both current space operations and future interplanetary exploration. By prioritizing high delta-V per dollar, we aim to maximize efficiency and cost-effectiveness in space transportation. We successfully launched our DROID.001 satellite in June 2023, with DROID.002 and DROID.003 scheduled for 2025.
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