Reliable Robotics Supplier Engineering Intern at Reliable Robotics supporting industrialization, qualification, and scaling of aerospace hardware. Bridges design engineering and manufacturing partners.
Responsibilities
Design for Excellence (DFx): Partner with mechanical and electrical engineers on DFM, DFA, and DFT reviews to optimize tooling, tolerances, component footprints, and producibility.
Supplier Industrialization: Support manufacturing line ramp-up across CNC machining, plating/coating, electro-mechanical actuator assembly, SMT, underfill, potting, and enclosures.
Risk & Quality Planning: Participate in Process FMEAs, Control Plans, and Gage R&R studies to mitigate supplier manufacturing risks early.
Qualification & Verification: Track part qualifications via Line Proofing, PPAP, and AS9102 First Article Inspections (FAIs).
Technical Assessments & Sourcing: Assist with technical capability audits and risk evaluations of machine shops, platers, and electronics manufacturers against AS9100 and industry standards.
Receiving & Inspection (RIPs): Draft incoming inspection plans and define verification criteria for raw materials, machined parts, PCBs, and PCBAs.
Metrology & Test: Support incoming inspection using CMM, optical comparators, surface profilometers, AOI, AXI, and cross-sectioning.
SPC & Traceability: Help deploy statistical sampling plans, track capability metrics, and ensure complete traceability.
RCCA & Yield Optimization: Assist with root cause investigations (8D, 5-Why, Fishbone) for machining, assembly, and test defects; drive mistake-proofing (Poka-Yoke) and First Pass Yield (FPY) gains.
Basic Success Criteria
Current undergraduate student pursuing a B.S. in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Electrical, or Mechatronics Engineering (Junior or Senior standing preferred).
Demonstrated hands-on hardware experience through collegiate engineering teams (e.g., Formula SAE, DBF, Baja, AIAA, Robotics), student maker spaces, personal technical projects, or a prior engineering internship.
Qualification
Junior or Senior standing preferredAt Reliable Robotics
Required
Current undergraduate student pursuing a B.S. in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Electrical, or Mechatronics Engineering
Junior or Senior standing preferred
Demonstrated hands-on hardware experience through collegiate engineering teams or maker spaces
Preferred
Familiarity with aerospace/electronics manufacturing quality standards (e.g., IPC/WHMA-A-620, IPC-A-610, AS9100).
Exposure to enterprise engineering software such as Altium Designer, Siemens NX, and PLM/MES platforms (e.g., Teamcenter, Manufacturo).
Working knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T per ASME Y14.5) and basic tolerance stack-up analysis.
Understanding of Lean Manufacturing and structured problem-solving methodologies (5S, Poka-Yoke, 5-Whys, Fishbone, 8D).
This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. An offer of employment will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to perform in compliance with U.S. export control laws.
All applicants are asked to provide documentation that legally establishes status as a U.S. person or non-U.S. person (and nationalities in the case of a non-U.S. person). Where the applicant is not a U.S. person, meaning not a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident, (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or not otherwise permitted to access the export-controlled technology without U.S. government authorization, the Company reserves the right not to apply for an export license for such applicants whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code requires authorization and may decline to proceed with the application process and any offer of employment on that basis.
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