Regent Aerodynamics Engineering Intern at Regent works on strengthening CFD simulation infrastructure and applying aerodynamic calculations to real programs. The role supports the Aerodynamics team within Hardware Engineering.
Responsibilities
Our Seagliders are reinventing how people move along the coast, and getting there means solving hard aerodynamic problems with both rigor and speed. As an Aerodynamics Engineering Intern, you'll work right at the intersection of aerodynamics and software, helping strengthen the infrastructure that carries our CFD simulations from job setup through post-processing. You won't just build and refine these tools, you'll also put them to work on real aerodynamic calculations for our programs, validating the very pipeline you help create. It's a rare chance to see your code and your aerodynamics knowledge contribute to the same outcome, in real time.
You'll join the Aerodynamics team within Hardware Engineering, a group balancing multiple programs and ambitious timelines, where investing in better tools and workflows pays dividends across everything the team builds. The team values contributions that go beyond a single isolated project: your ideas for improving job setup, scheduling, results handling, or post-processing could shape how the team works well beyond your internship. If you're the kind of engineer who gets as much satisfaction from building a better tool as from cracking the aerodynamics problem itself, you'll feel right at home here.
Strengthen the CFD Pipeline: You'll build and refine tooling spanning job setup, scheduling, results handling, and post-processing, making the team's CFD workflows faster and more reliable.
Apply What You Build: You'll use the tools you improve to run real aerodynamic calculations for active programs, validating the models that inform how our vehicles are designed.
Hunt Down Friction Points: You'll get hands-on with the team's current workflows, spot where things slow down or break, and bring concrete ideas for fixing them.
Work Across the Full Workflow: You'll get exposure to every stage of the CFD process, from pre-processing through solver execution to post-processing.
Share Your Results: You'll present your work and its impact to the aerodynamics team, showing how your contributions changed the way the team operates.
What You'll Bring
Engineering Foundation: You're currently studying aerospace, mechanical, or a related engineering field, with coursework in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics behind you.
Hands-On With CFD: You have some exposure to CFD and understand how pre-processing, solving, and post-processing fit together as a workflow.
Comfortable in Code and Linux: You have programming experience, ideally in Python, and you're comfortable working in a Linux environment.
A Builder's Curiosity: You're genuinely curious about aerodynamic modeling of flying vehicles.
