AI Feature Development Intern - NCSG

Our Why

At Collier Aerospace, our mission is to help our customers reach their unique structural analysis and design goals with more accurate results in less time. We are a team of passionate employees who want to contribute to each customer's goal in the best way possible across space launch, reusable rocket, commercial airframe, business jet, eVTOL, bike frame, and speed boat applications. We accomplish this with our leading software, HyperX, through software development and engineering support. As you join our team, you join our company mission and become an integral partner in increasing efficiency and innovation throughout the world.

Our Culture

We foster a highly supportive and collaborative environment where our meetings are a mix of brainstorming, analysis, and humor. When you’re stuck, our employees are always eager to lend a helping hand. We offer a relaxed and casual dress code to promote a comfortable atmosphere. Our passion and drive fuel us as we strive to make a lasting impact on our company, customers, and industry.

Collier Aerospace is seeking motivated and eager North Carolina State college students to join our NCSG Intern cohort. Collier Aerospace’s primary product, HyperX®, is a .NET desktop application used by engineers from amazing aerospace companies all around the world. Collier is currently adapting and expanding HyperX to integrate with emerging AI-based tools and workflows. During this internship, you will help develop and maintain new software tools within HyperX® to support this endeavor.

Required Qualifications

Candidates should have a computer science or software engineering background and a strong interest in AI/ML technology development. We are looking for the following abilities and related work experience:

Candidates should have many of the following capabilities and related work experience:

• US citizen (required)
• In-progress bachelor’s degree in one of the following disciplines;
• • Computer science,
  • Software engineering,
  • Or a related field
• Hard skills:
• • Proficiency in an object-oriented, statically typed language (C#, C++, or Java); C# and .NET preferred
  • Demonstrated ability to read, navigate, and extend a large codebase (especially in collaboration with others)
  • Strong grasp of data structures and algorithms, including the ability to justify design decisions and reason about complexity
  • Working knowledge of:
  • • Concurrency and thread safety
    • Databases and structured database formats (e.g. JSON, XML)
• Relevant (but not required) experience:
• • Setting up custom AI workflows/environments/tools
  • Setting up, training, or running LLMs (or smaller models) locally
  • Data science, with libraries such as NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, etc.
  • Experience with context retrieval pipelines

Roles and Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with Collier's engineering team to define use-cases for AI tools.
• Collaborate with the research team and development team to plan, design, and prototype new features that facilitate interoperability between AI tools and HyperX®.
• Develop and test these tools with C#.
• Support development and maintenance of existing tools such as MCP servers and RAG systems.

Why Collier Aerospace?

• Jump-start your career with opportunities to learn from and work closely with other leading software developers
• Gain exposure to real-world aircraft and spacecraft designs across commercial, defense, and space sectors
• Small company – provides opportunity for involvement in many aspects of the business and gain many new hard and soft skills
• Casual work environment