What are the responsibilities and job description for the GNC Engineering Intern position at Peraton?
Peraton Overview
Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.
Responsibilities
NASA’s Sounding Rocket Operations Contract (NSROC) is a sub-orbital space flight program located at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), a part of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). NSROC provides suborbital launch vehicles, payload development and field operations support to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. The program enables the collection of Earth, Heliophysics and Astrophysics science.
The Guidance Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineering Intern develops skills and principals of engineering through their support of standard tasks and special projects within the sounding rocket GNC group.
Specific duties include:
- Design and utilize ground support equipment to test and validate GNC system components.
- Perform Acceptance Test Procedures on new build and existing flight hardware and Ground support Equipment.
- Perform environmental qualification testing of new sounding rocket components.
- Develop programming applications to test and validate components utilizing software in C, C , C# and Matlab.
- Research and develop new engineering and specialty products.
- Develop technical documentation to evaluate and check electronic systems.
- Document the results of design, analysis and testing project tasks for technical reports and meeting presentations.
- Develop electrical engineering skills, principals and application approaches through participation in mission testing activities and reviews.
- Training will be required in Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- Education: Pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree (BS) in Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Physics, or other STEM field.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Education: Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical of Computer Engineering preferred
- Preference is given to students who can “co-op” through either spring and summer or summer and fall.
- Junior level student status
- Experience with lab equipment such as multimeters, power supplies and oscilloscopes
- Experience in developing software applications in C and C#.
