Mechanical Engineering Micro-Intern

Kairox builds Tempest, a low-cost fixed-wing drone that flies, dives beneath the surface, and flies back out. You’ll put real parts on a real vehicle.

What You’ll Work On

• Additive manufacturing — rapid design iteration on printed structures, mounts, and enclosures. You’ll select materials and print processes, tune for strength-to-weight, and turn test and flight feedback into the next revision
• Design for manufacturing — take parts from prototype to machined production. That covers researching processes and tolerances, working with external machine shops, refining designs for cost and manufacturability, and validating finished parts
• Assembly and test — vehicle builds, fit checks, and structural or environmental testing to verify designs before they fly

What We’re Looking For

Required

• Track record of independent technical projects or research, ideally ones where you designed and built physical hardware
• Proficiency in SolidWorks or comparable parametric CAD software
• Hands-on fabrication experience, whether 3D printing, machining, or assembly
• Working understanding of GD&T and tolerancing for manufactured parts
• U.S. Citizen

Preferred

• CAM toolpathing and CNC experience
• FEA and/or CFD analysis
• Composites or lightweight structures experience
• UAV, UUV, or other robotics platform experience
• Fluency with AI-assisted design or engineering workflows

Above all: ownership, grit, and comfort operating with ambiguity at startup pace. You should prefer figuring things out to waiting for direction.

Email jobs@kairoxsys.com with any questions