Mechanical Engineering Intern, Spring 2027
Dispatch, San Francisco, California
The role
The Mechanical team is responsible for the structure, mechanisms, payload accommodation, and thermal protection system integration that carry Spark-1 through launch, on-orbit operations, reentry, and recovery.
Interns at Dispatch work directly on problems that affect upcoming missions. You'll own meaningful technical work and collaborate closely with engineers across thermal, avionics, and vehicle systems as we design, test, and operate Spark-1.
What you will do
- Own or contribute to the design of primary structure, secondary structure, and mechanisms for Spark-1
- Perform structural analysis by hand calculation and FEA for launch, on-orbit, reentry, and recovery load environments