Projects

Team up with civil engineers across over 110K acres of Vandenberg Space Force Base to execute field maintenance engineering on HVAC, power distribution systems, water distribution systems and any other infrastructure systems we maintain to support our high-volume launch cadence. You’ll interface with military, civilian, and contractor personnel to keep our spaceport operational and learn the fundamentals of how we support SpaceX, ULA, and FireFly launch providers.

Related Degrees: Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering Technology, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Industrial Engineering

Team up with government personnel to experience how to integrate disparate data sources into software enabled command and control capabilities and learn military concepts that are benefited by data driven insights. Experience agile software development practices and contribute to the first Spaceport common operating picture.

Related Degrees: Computing (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering), Math, Meteorological Studies, Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Data Science

Develop the first phase of a plan and potentially deliver Spaceport 101 training course materials and training program that teaches the full breadth of Spaceport operations. Partner with subject matter experts to integrate technical deep dives into areas like, safety risk analysis, link margin analysis, telemetry data parameters, various real time data formats, and other higher level explorations of the various systems that are used to support test and space lift operations.

Related Degrees: Operations, Business, Management, Engineering Management, Education, Industrial Engineering, General Engineering

Team up with our dynamic Range Operations Squadron to design, build, and test impactful software to increase the unit’s capacity to support an ever increasing launch and test cadence. Learn DevSecOps (Development, Security, and Operations) practices, experience very unique data sources and contribute directly to improving operations and quality of life.

Related Degrees: Computing (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering), Math, Meteorological Studies, Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Data Science

Join a rapid prototyping team charged with developing advanced training aids for VSFB organizations. Leverage industry leading fabrication capabilities build scaled recreations of operational technology and produce high volumes of products after using state-of-the-art software (e.g., SolidWorks) and hardware.

Related Degrees: Materials Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Interface with range planners, system program offices, and launch providers to understand how new launch and test needs are planned, integrated and prioritized for support from VSFB. Learn adaptive methods using GenAI to build out highly technical plans to enable launch and test operations.

Related Degrees: Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Business Operations, Industrial Engineering, Computing (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering), Data Science

Interface with the environmental protection team and safety office to collect imagery in areas where protected species are and train computer vision model algorithms to flag their presence, movements, and behaviors. Learn how to use imagery matching algorithms, how to train AI models, and deliver data-driven products to enhance our ability to protect endangered species.

Related Degrees: Computing (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering), Data Science, Environmental Engineering, Animal Science, Marine Biology, Ethology