BLUE ORIGIN
Engineering Internships at Blue Origin
Blue Origin is a commercial human spaceflight company that is developing vehicles and technologies to enable commercial human space transportation. Blue Origin has a long-term vision of greatly increasing the number of people that fly into space so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. In November 2015, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket became the first to fly to space and return to Earth via vertical landing. Over the next eleven months, the very same rocket launched and landed four more times, demonstrating reuse – a key enabler to a future in which millions of people are living and working in space.
Blue Origin interns participate in real engineering design projects related to the development and fabrication of human space flight systems. Interns work directly with our engineers to contribute to project goals in fields of mechanical design, fluids, aerodynamics, rocket propulsion, flight controls, electronics, avionics, enterprise software, flight software, human safety, structures, and systems engineering.
Current graduate and undergraduate students in engineering are invited to apply for this 12 to 15-week program. Internships are available year-round, and correlate to the Spring, Summer, and Fall academic calendars. Opportunities are available at our headquarters in Kent, Washington, in addition to our facilities in West Texas and Cape Canaveral, Florida. Our interns receive housing and a competitive compensation package including travel reimbursement. Applications require one letter of recommendation which must be submitted by the deadline. Deadlines are as follows: Summer is January 31, Fall is May 1, and Spring is October 1. For additional information, please see our website https://www.blueorigin.com/careers#section3. Applications for Summer 2018 will be evaluated on a rolling basis.
Eligibility Requirements: Applicants must be a United States citizen or permanent resident (green card holder). Students must also be currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program and have at least one semester of school remaining after the internship. Students who have obtained a junior or higher academic standing by the start of the internship are preferred.