• Internship length & time frame: 10-12 weeks during the summer of 2021
  • Two available start dates: 6/1/21 & 6/21/21
• Availability: interns must be available for 40 hours/week (sorry, no overtime!)
• Compensation: all internship positions have a fixed hourly rate of $19.00/hour 
• Eligible applicants: applicants must have current work authorization for the United States (U.S.-based student visas are eligible). Applicants without current work authorization unfortunately cannot be considered.
• **Location: this is a completely remote program; due to economic constraints related to tax implications, we are only accepting applicants residing in the states of California or Nevada. 
  

To connect the world, we must reflect the world. At Virgin Hyperloop, we’re bringing together unique perspectives, empowering our community to celebrate all voices, and creating equal opportunities to build, grow, and thrive. 

WHY WE NEED YOU

• The Systems Engineering Team at Virgin Hyperloop is a scrappy, cross-functional team responsible to define, develop, & mature the requirements and functional definitions of our system with broad interdependencies spanning product lifecycle from inception (defining the needs & constraints of hardware and software components) through to testing & delivery (controlling the verification methods of individual capabilities & constraints).
• The Systems Engineering Team is responsible to deliver the functional, performance, interface, and other requirements defining the system’s capabilities supporting the work of engineering design teams (hardware + software), testing & integration, and external vendors for design gate milestones.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• As a Systems Engineering intern, you will define system architectures of the Passenger Pod system.
• Under the guidance of the MBSE Lead & Passenger Pod Lead Systems Engineer you will:
  • Define, maintain, & control the functional (behavioral) data model of the Passenger Pod.
  • Analyze changes, update, & maintain the sub-component/sub-system interfaces of the Passenger Pod.
  • Lead analysis & identification of changes to functional specifications of the Passenger Pod.
• You can effectively work in a remote setting: managing tasking, communicating progress & seeking out information via electronics means – instant messages, email, & video-chat.

WHAT YOU'VE DONE

• Currently pursuing a B.S. or M.S. in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Aerospace Engineering, other related discipline, or equivalent coursework.
• Experience analyzing systems made up of multiple components/sub-systems/sub-modules, decomposing broad system functionality/capabilities into smaller (essential) capabilities of the sub-systems/sub-modules.
• Analyzing systems and defining functions & features from black-box and white-box engineering perspectives.
• Defining software module/function input & output data structures.
• Understanding of physical interfaces between components & how to define physical interdependencies of a component (e.g. specifying the electrical, mechanical, human-machine aspects of a component & how it relies on other neighboring components to satisfy these interdependencies).