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

Learn more about the internship experience at Reliable Robotics from former interns: link

This internship opportunity is located at our corporate headquarters in Mountain View, CA. The estimated annualized salary for this position is $116,000. 

This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. An offer of employment will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to perform in compliance with U.S. export control laws.

All applicants are asked to provide documentation that legally establishes status as a U.S. person or non-U.S. person (and nationalities in the case of a non-U.S. person). Where the applicant is not a U.S. person, meaning not a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident, (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or not otherwise permitted to access the export-controlled technology without U.S. government authorization, the Company reserves the right not to apply for an export license for such applicants whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code requires authorization and may decline to proceed with the application process and any offer of employment on that basis.

At Reliable Robotics, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, ancestry, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or medical conditions, national origin, military or veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment and promotion is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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