✓Stock options & equity
✓Medical, dental, and vision coverage
✓401(k)
✓Unlimited PTO
✓Catered lunches
✓Contribute to real spacecraft engineering work in one of four technical tracks: Electrical, Mechanical, GNC, or Software, with assignments sized appropriately for an internship.
✓Work alongside experienced engineers on scoped technical problems involving design, analysis, implementation, integration, test, simulation, debugging, or engineering documentation.
✓Gain hands-on exposure to flight hardware, test equipment, software environments, simulations, engineering data, and the processes used to take spacecraft from concept through test and operations.
✓Participate in design reviews, test activities, technical discussions, and team meetings; ask thoughtful questions and communicate progress, assumptions, risks, and blockers clearly.
✓Collaborate across disciplines to understand how electrical, mechanical, software, controls, mission operations, and program constraints interact at the spacecraft level.
✓Apply classroom fundamentals to real engineering decisions and compare models, calculations, code, or design intent against test results and practical constraints.
✓Document analyses, code, drawings, procedures, test results, or technical decisions so the work can be reviewed and used by the broader team.
✓Demonstrate increasing independence over the course of the internship while seeking feedback early and maintaining ownership of assigned work.
✓Create repeatable capture and partnership mechanisms that allow Katalyst to scale national security business development without becoming dependent on informal relationships or individual heroics.
✓Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Applied Math, Physics, or a closely related technical field.
✓Strong academic foundation in the fundamentals relevant to the selected discipline and the ability to explain technical reasoning clearly.
✓Demonstrated technical interest through coursework, laboratories, research, student teams, capstone work, personal projects, prior internships, or other hands-on experience.
✓Ability to break down a technical problem, identify assumptions, ask useful questions, and make progress with guidance from more experienced engineers.
✓Clear written and verbal communication and the ability to distinguish personal contributions from the work of a broader team.
✓Curiosity and willingness to learn unfamiliar tools, systems, and technical domains quickly.
✓Ability to collaborate effectively, receive direct technical feedback, and follow through reliably on commitments.
✓Ability to comply with applicable export-control requirements and customer-access restrictions.
✓Prior internship, co-op, research, student-team, or project experience in spacecraft, aerospace, robotics, autonomous systems, defense technology, high-reliability hardware, or another technically demanding environment.
✓Experience designing, building, coding, analyzing, testing, or debugging something beyond normal classroom problem sets.
✓Electrical track: exposure to circuits, embedded systems, PCB design, power electronics, sensors, test equipment, controls hardware, or hardware-in-the-loop environments.
✓Mechanical track: exposure to CAD, mechanisms, structures, thermal or structural analysis, manufacturing, GD&T, test fixtures, or hardware integration.
✓GNC track: exposure to dynamics, controls, estimation, navigation, orbital mechanics, simulation, MATLAB/Simulink, Python, or C/C++.
✓Software track: exposure to C/C++, Python, Linux, embedded or real-time software, networking, testing, simulation, robotics, autonomy, or mission / ground software.
United States·Broomfieldentry