Northrop Grumman Australia · 11 hours ago
2026 Guidance Navigation and Control Engineer Intern – Redondo Beach CA
United States-California-Redondo Beach
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$20.50/hr - $46.75/hr
Start in 2026 SummerNorthrop Grumman is a space pioneer supporting government, civil, and commercial customers in solving their biggest challenges. They are seeking Guidance Navigation and Control Engineers for an internship opportunity, where the qualified candidate will derive system requirements, collaborate across teams, and develop algorithms for spacecraft guidance and control.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Derives guidance, navigation, and control system requirements from customer and mission needs
Collaborates across functional teams to perform trade studies supporting selected approaches
Provides subject matter expertise in the selection of hardware (sensors, actuators, processors) and development of algorithms (trackers, filters, controllers) to fulfill GNC requirements
Creates models and simulations of system attitude, ephemeris, and line-of-sight dynamics, knowledge, and control to support analysis, verification, and flight operations
Designs, develops, implements, verifies and tests algorithms and software and simulation tools to perform guidance, navigation and control of spacecraft during earth orbit, interplanetary cruise and orbital insertion, as well as during staging events
Engineers navigation functions including the statistical processing of measured data points and their substitution into algorithms simulating physical reality
Builds guidance functions including the formulation of specific equations to achieve a desired position, orientation or orbit in space
Implements control design and analysis processes consisting of the development of the control laws and hardware and software requirements for spacecraft
Qualification
Required
Be a student who is enrolled full-time and pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree from an accredited college/university and will be enrolled full time in Fall 2026
Be majoring in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering or STEM degree
Be available to work full-time (40 hours per week) for at least 10 weeks during summer 2026
Be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite) as well as Program Special access within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite)
Preferred
Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.00/4.0 or higher
Previous internship/co-op experience, leadership & teamwork capabilities, interpersonal communication skills, and activities (professional/community/extracurricular)
Self-motivated, willing to learn, and interested in working in a team environment
Experience in MATLAB/Simulink, C/C++, Python
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase