Spring 2025 Guidance, Navigation and Controls Intern – Graduate

Internship : Guidance, Navigation, and Control

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety.

This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight.

Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

Interns work directly with our experienced engineers in support of our business units. Projects may involve all aspects of GNC engineering including guidance, navigation, controls, autonomy, avionics, simulation, system test, aero sciences, and systems engineering.

This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

This internship will last 15 weeks.

Required Qualifications :

Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.

S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Currently enrolled in agraduate program and have at least one semester of school remaining after the internship.

Available to work full time for a minimum of 15 weeks while not concurrently enrolled in coursework.

Strong written, verbal, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Experience with MATLAB or SIMULINK.

Passion for space.

Desired : If you have any of the following experience, be sure to include it on your resume.

Relevant internship / co-op and academic project experience that demonstrate development of both technical skills as well as leadership qualities.

Hands-on project experience.

Experience with avionics software.

Experience with C / C++.

When you apply, be sure to include your internship, co-curricular and research experience in your resume. If you haven’t yet used a tool in a professional setting, please include relevant coursework that demonstrates your preparation for these roles.

Blue Origin is a proud member of Space Workforce 2030, a growing coalition of leading space companies committed to collaboratively working toward a shared vision of expanding and diversifying opportunities for talent to join the exciting space industry.

As part of this commitment, the Space Workforce 2030 companies have pledged to increase the number of females, diverse employees, and interns with a goal to hire at least 3,000 interns by the summer of 2030 .

Click here to learn more and register for the National Space Intern program.

Inclusivity Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification.

At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.

S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

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Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force.

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