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2027 Intern - Airworthiness Engineer
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-California-San Diego
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman is seeking Airworthiness Engineers to join the Aeronautics Systems Intern Program. This position will be located in San Diego, CA. The selected candidate will support certification efforts on various air vehicle platforms. The selected candidate will help ensure the logical and systematic realization of customer airworthiness certification objectives into system solutions to meet program needs throughout the product lifecycle (e.g. Flight Releases, Type Certification, continued airworthiness, and operation of airspace integration). As an intern, you’ll participate in a summer internship program to develop competencies in a variety of engineering specializations that may include: • Technical airworthiness planning and verification support including development and negotiation of airworthiness plans, bases of certification, means of compliance, and other certification activities for complex total systems with IPT/REs as well as customer counterparts. • Reviewing and coordinating with other airworthiness engineers as well as internal engineering disciplines performed across the total system to include design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. • Performing functional and process analyses, requirements allocation, and definition studies to translate customer requirements into criteria and derived requirements. • Maintaining Type Design Data and airworthiness evidence in support of a Military Type Certification and Air System Continued & Continuing Airworthiness as a member of the technical AW staff in a System Design Responsible company. Basic Qualifications A candidate, regardless of age and hiring source, must meet ALL of the below criteria. The candidate must: • Be enrolled full-time and pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree from an accredited college/university AND graduating after August 2027. • Be majoring in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related STEM field. • Be available to work full-time (40 hours per week) for at least 10 weeks during summer 2027. • Be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite) as well as Program Special access within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite). Preferred Qualifications • Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.25/4.0 or higher. • Previous internship/co-op experience, leadership & teamwork capabilities, interpersonal communication skills, and activities (professional/community/extracurricular) Intern Pay Range • Undergraduate degrees (Including graduating students planning on attending/enrolled in a full-time Master’s program): $21.50 - $39.00/hour • Master’s: $30.50 - $48.00/hour At Northrop Grumman, o