Mission Software Engineering Intern (Summer) at Regent · LumiJobs

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Every flight test day at REGENT generates a flood of vehicle data, and the faster that data turns into engineering answers, the faster our Seaglider programs move toward production. As a Mission Software Engineering Intern, you'll own a bounded project of your own in test, ground systems, or vehicle health monitoring — something like telemetry prioritization for constrained radio links, ingest and replay tooling, or a fault-detection prototype — built and verified against recorded data and bench setups. You'll also help build the downstream data path for our test infrastructure effort: the schemas, ingest pipelines, and quick-look analysis tools that turn raw telemetry into something engineers can actually use.
You'll sit within Mission Software Engineering, a team working across navigation and route software, perception and autonomy interfaces, vehicle deployment tooling, and the test and ground systems that support all of it. This team believes rigor should scale with criticality, and you'll see that principle in action as your tooling supports real test campaigns and crew-facing, vehicle-health data.
If you're a graduate student who wants hands-on ownership of real engineering problems - not a side project, but work the team will actually rely on - we'd love to meet you.
Own a Scoped Project: You'll take ownership of one focused project in test and ground systems or vehicle health monitoring, such as telemetry prioritization for constrained links, ingest and replay tooling, or a fault-detection prototype.
Build the Downstream Data Path: You'll contribute to our test infrastructure effort, helping design telemetry schemas and build ingest, replay, and quick-look analysis tooling that engineers depend on after a test day.
Work Against Real Vehicle Data: You'll build and verify your project against recorded data and bench setups, learning how the vehicle's publish/subscribe data model moves information across topics, QoS, and schemas.
Test for the Hard Cases: You'll write automated tests that cover the scenarios that actually break systems in the field, including stale, missing, delayed, and malformed data.
Get Close to Flight Test: You may support live test campaigns and work with crew-facing and vehicle health data, giving you a front-row seat to how rigor is matched to criticality across the vehicle.
Collaborate Across Vehicle Programs: You'll work alongside engineers supporting Paladin, Viceroy, and Squire, picking up context on navigation, perception interfaces, and deployment tooling along the way.
Document and Present Your Work: You'll walk the team through your design decisions and findings, leaving behind documentation they can reuse and build on well after your internship ends.
What You'll Bring
Graduate-Level Foundation: You're currently enrolled in an M.S. or PhD program in computer science, software engineering, robotics, ECE, aerospace, or a related field.

Mission Software Engineering Intern (Summer)

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