📍 Location: Paris Region (on-site)
🛰️ Sector: Next-generation European Defense / Counter-UAS
💼 Type: Internship (6 months)
⏳ Start date: February 2027 (flexible)
💰 Compensation: 1500€/month
EGIDE is building Europe’s next defense champion. We design autonomous interceptor systems to counter emerging aerial threats, including kamikaze and loitering drones. Our focus is on high-performance interceptor hardware, combining missile-grade engineering discipline with rapid iteration and system-level optimization. We develop effectors where mechanical architecture, mass distribution, structural integrity, and environmental robustness are mission-critical.
This is a great place to do an internship: you’ll join a small, ambitious team in a fast-moving environment, with direct exposure to the full hardware cycle, from design and analysis to build and flight testing.
About the internshipAs part of pre-projects for future products or evolutions of existing systems, this internship focuses on developing vehicle control techniques during the take-off phase and transition to the boost phase.
Your mission will include:
Literature review: Explore existing solutions for controlling vehicles in similar conditions.
Actuator selection: Identify and evaluate suitable actuators to ensure controllability during take-off.
Controllability analysis and control law design: Analyze the vehicle’s ability to respond to control inputs, design and test algorithms to stabilize and guide the vehicle.
Simulation and validation: Implement control laws in Python or MATLAB/Simulink and validate them through simulations.
Testing: Possibility to validate your designs through real-world testing on prototypes or full-scale systems.
You will be able to work closely with our engineering team to bring your solutions from theory to practice. Your work and results will have a direct impact on the development of our future products.
You Are a Fit IfYou are currently in the final year of an engineering degree, with a specialization in Applied Mathematics, Control Theory, Signal Processing, or Aeronautics.
You have basic knowledge of control theory, modeling, simulation of autonomous systems, aerodynamics, and flight mechanics.
You are proficient in Python or MATLAB/Simulink.
You are proactive, open-minded, and enjoy bridging hardware and software systems.
Build the future of European defense capability
Work on real systems that fly fast
Learn from experienced engineers in a small, ambitious team where your ideas are heard
Get direct exposure to the full chain: algorithms, simulation, integration and field testing
High-autonomy engineering culture: real responsibility from day one
Competitive compensation: 1500€/month, meal vouchers & 50% public transport reimbursement
A real path forward: strong performers may be offered a full-time position after the internship
Skills Required
- Currently pursuing the final year of an engineering degree
- Specialization in applied mathematics, control theory, signal processing, or aeronautics
- Basic knowledge of control theory
- Basic knowledge of modeling and simulation of autonomous systems
- Basic knowledge of aerodynamics and flight mechanics
- Proficiency in Python or MATLAB/Simulink
- Proactive, open-minded, and able to bridge hardware and software systems
What We Do
EGIDE is a European defense company building scalable, intelligent air-defense architectures. It develops mass-use interceptors and mission systems designed to combine missile-grade performance with modern embedded computing and advanced autonomy. Its work focuses on creating deployable, high-performance defense capabilities, positioning the company as a technology-driven provider for contemporary air-defense requirements across European security markets and critical national defense missions at scale.
