Mass Properties Engineer Intern

At REGENT, we’re on a mission to revolutionize regional transportation between coastal cities. We're not just building vehicles, we're creating a new category of transportation: the Seaglider. These groundbreaking wing-in-ground-effect craft travel just above the water’s surface, combining the speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat. Capable of 180 miles at 180 mph on today's battery tech (and up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries), Seagliders will unlock fast, affordable, and sustainable coastal transit for passengers and cargo - connecting cities, islands, and communities like never before.

Backed by leading investors and powered by a team of passionate, forward-thinking engineers, builders, and operators, we’re now scaling from a breakthrough prototype to full production - and building the team to make it happen.

Role Overview

REGENT's Mass Properties discipline sits at the heart of every vehicle program. As the Mass Properties Engineering Intern, you'll work directly on real, high-impact work from day one.

This isn't spreadsheet upkeep. You'll do the engineering a full-time hire would do: pulling mass, CG, and inertia data directly from CAD, working with various IPTs to keep the data accurate, and writing scripts that replace manual work. You'll help close out weight and balance control for our prototype vehicle, and help define the management plan, database architecture, and tools that our production craft will rely on through production.

You'll join the Aero & Performance team within Hardware Engineering. If you'd rather open a CAD model and find the answer yourself, write a script than repeat a task by hand, and help build a discipline instead of plugging into one that already exists, you'll fit right in!

What You'll Do

• Support R&D W&B Control: You'll help develop and implement the processes that control our products’ weight and balance properties through the maturation of design, including how mass data is sourced, verified, updated through configuration changes, and reported.

• Build Supporting Tools: You'll write scripts to automate reporting of mass properties and mass rollups across programs, establishing the appropriate checks and balances.

• Work Laterally Across the Company: You'll gain a system view by interfacing directly with adjacent departments (structures, propulsion, avionics, etc) to collect mass properties, challenge their reports, and keep the database up to date.

• Exposure to Design Tools: You'll have visibility into the PLM system and the DMU to gain a deeper understanding of the system layout and reports generated by the responsible engineers.

• Identify Risks and Opportunities: You'll assess mass and balance data to flag potential weight or CG issues, identify opportunities to reduce weight, and share your findings with the relevant engineering teams.

• Define and Deliver a Real Outcome: You'll scope a clear goal with your manager early in the term and present your results, including your assumptions and data sources, to the team at the end of it.

• Set Your Priorities: You'll work independently under the guidance of the Mass Properties Engineer, who will mentor you and help you define your priorities across the different programs to achieve your set objectives.

What You'll Bring

• CAD Fluency: You can navigate CATIA, SolidWorks, NX or similar tools to independently understand the vehicle layout, pull mass, CG, and inertia data.

• Scripting Instincts: You have working proficiency in Python, MATLAB, SQL, VBA, or similar, and you reach for a script when a task is about to become a recurring manual chore.

• Weight and Balance Fundamentals: You understand CG calculations, moment of inertia, and how margins and contingencies get carried through a program.

• Comfort With Ambiguity: You are able to focus across multiple active programs and changing priorities.

• Confidence Reaching Out: You are proactive and comfortable engaging with engineers on other teams directly to track down a number and get it confirmed.

• Curiosity About Change Control: Exposure to PLM or PDM systems and interest in how engineering changes are tracked through the lifecycle of a program is an advantage.

• A Head Start, If You've Got One: Though we don't expect you to have it, familiarity with aircraft weight management standards, having a private pilot’s license, or prior weight and balance experience from a program, class, or club project, will help you ramp up quickly.

Who We're Looking For

• Collaborative Team Player: You believe that great things happen when teams work together. You communicate effectively and collaborate with engineers, stakeholders, and other cross-functional teams to align on goals and move projects forward. You bring people together, ensuring that everyone is on the same page and moving towards a shared vision.

• Creative Problem Solver: You thrive on tackling complex challenges and finding innovative solutions. Whether you're resolving installation challenges, debugging elusive electrical issues, or adapting on the fly during integration and test, you bring a practical, inventive mindset to every problem. You don't just patch issues - you improve processes, anticipate downstream impacts, and help turn one-off fixes into scalable solutions that raise the bar for future builds.

• Adaptable & Agile: In a fast-paced, ever-evolving startup environment, you quickly adapt to changing priorities and requirements. You approach challenges with a calm, resilient mindset, and know how to pivot and adjust your approach as needed, ensuring that progress continues without missing a beat.

• Innovative Mindset: You’re driven by curiosity and a passion for technology. You’re passionate about driving continuous improvement, embracing new technologies and methodologies to enhance efficiency, quality, and team performance.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation

• Housing Stipend available for those temporarily moving to join our team

• Daily, free catered lunches

• Learning & professional development opportunities

• Meaningful projects that make an impact

• Mentorship & guidance from experienced team members

If you’re ready to take on an exciting challenge, grow with us, and make a lasting impact, we want to hear from you. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, but you see yourself contributing to our mission, we encourage you to apply! We value diverse skillsets and experiences and believe in the potential of passionate individuals to make a big impact.

Equal Opportunity Employer

REGENT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.