Internship in Assembly, Integration and Testing

YOUR MISSION:

Join our engineering team and support us in successfully delivering our missions to the International Space Station (ISS) – and beyond.

During your 6-month internship, you'll take an active role in the assembly, integration, and testing of our space hardware – working hands-on with the technology we send to space. You'll gain real insight into spaceflight projects and become part of a team that enables cutting-edge research in microgravity.

YOUR TASKS:

1. Assemble, integrate and test current and future space hardware

2. Support in running missions

3. Support Engineering Team in all activities

Important tasks to achieve these goals:

• Develop, adapt and design future space hardware

• Implement new state-of-the-art production technologies (rapid prototyping, 3D printing)

• Produce your own prototypes

• Assemble, integrate, test and calculate current and future flight hardware

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:

• are an enrolled student within mechanical, aerospace or automotive engineering or similar

• have experience with CAD (ideally 3DExperience / Catia V6) and ideally FEM calculation (ideally Ansys)

• ideally have experience in 3D printing

• are experienced with MS Office

• ideally have programming skills in C++, Java, Python (or similar)

• are a team player with communication skills, supportive, well organized and have an independent way of working

• fluently speak and write in English and ideally good in German and/or French

• Mindset

  • self-motivated and proactive

  • takes full ownership

  • comfortable with high uncertainty

  • hands-on / getting things done

  • persistent

  • relentlessly resourceful

  • analytical

  • empathic

  • low ego

WHY YURI:

• Is there anything more exciting than the intersection of space and biotechnology?

• You directly or indirectly work on projects that are launched to the International Space Station and other space platforms.

• You instantly feel welcome in our 600 sqm cozy loft office with a spacious kitchen, foosball, spikeball and a large beer fridge (yes, beer and coffee is on us!)

• We offer a flexible working environment with options to work remotely.

• Our HQ is located in one of the most beautiful regions in Europe, with the amazing Lake Constance at our doorstep and the alps for hiking and skiing less than an hour away.

• We do weekly company lunches and regular team events.

• We support you in finding your perfect set-up, and help you choose between team Mac or team Windows.

• We are deeply impact-driven at work and outside work. Therefore you can take at least one impact day per year to protest for more climate action or support any other social or ecological cause.

• We care about our footprint and thus offset the emissions of our rocket launches, business trips and all other operations.

• In addition, we offset the private emissions of all our team members.

• We offer free charging of your electric cars, bikes and scooters at our office in Meckenbeuren.

...and a final remark:
We care about each other and believe that a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion or your secret aversion to pineapple on pizza.