Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer (Summer 2025 Internship)

We're building safety-enhancing technology for aviation that will save lives. Automated aviation systems will enable a future where air transportation is safer, more convenient and fundamentally transformative to the way goods — and eventually people — move around the planet. We are a team of mission-driven engineers with experience across aerospace, robotics and self-driving cars working to make this future a reality.

As a Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) intern engineer at Reliable Robotics, you will work with a team of mission-driven engineers with experience across aviation, space, robotics and self-driving cars to make this future a reality. Reliable Robotics has year-round internship opportunities for students pursuing a graduate degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics or a similar field of study. Successful candidates will work alongside senior engineers to design, implement and test GNC systems.

Responsibilities

• Support the design, analysis and verification of GNC components
• Help improve the simulation models for various phases of flight
• Develop tooling and Monte Carlo tests in support of navigation and control system verification

Basic Success Criteria

• Currently enrolled in a graduate program in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics or equivalent practical experience
• A solid understanding of fundamentals -- engineering math, dynamics, numerical methods
• Proficient in any of C/C++/Python
• Proactive and motivated to tackle hard problems

Preferred Success Criteria

• Experience in one or more disciplines related to GNC: flight simulation, control systems analysis, sensor fusion and state estimation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills