Software Engineering Internship (Summer 2027)
Amca
El Segundo
Amca is building America’s new industrial base. Since the 1990s, our ability to build new aviation and military systems and maintain the ones we already have has eroded. Today, the gap between what the nation needs to produce and what it is capable of producing is the largest it has been in generations.
To help close that gap, Amca rapidly develops and manufactures new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. Today, we operate seven factories nationwide, including our advanced prototyping and testing headquarters in El Segundo, and deliver avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components for platforms such as the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams.
Overview
Amca is hiring software engineering interns to build the systems that turn decades of engineering knowledge into structured, usable data. The work broadly falls into two areas: software that digitizes, labels, and organizes millions of technical drawings, designs, and engineering documents, and a custom software suite that makes engineers and factory teams faster across the factories and Protoshop.
Interns work on real production problems with real users on the other end. The tools built here shape how quickly hardware gets designed, built, and shipped.
Responsibilities
- Build pipelines that ingest, digitize, label, and structure large volumes of technical drawings, CAD files, and engineering documentation
- Develop internal tools that speed up engineering and manufacturing workflows across the factories and Protoshop, using data we've codified from our acquired factories or by observing the current practices of our factories.
- Design and ship features end to end, from backend services and data storage to front-end interfaces
- Work directly with engineers and production teams to understand their bottlenecks and turn them into software
- Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing systems
- Write clean, tested, well-documented pseudo-code and code and take part in code review
Basic Qualifications
- Currently pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer or software engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related field
- Understand and experience using storage systems, cloud infrastructure, and front-end frameworks
- Learns quickly, picks up unfamiliar tools without hand-holding, can understand and write detailed documentation, and takes ownership of what you build
- Communicates clearly with both technical and non-technical teammates on plans, updates, and blockers.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Strong fluency in using AI coding tools to build and ship efficiently
- Strong git habits, especially on shared repos, including clear commits, branching, and pull requests
- Experience shipping full-stack features or applications to production, through an internship, project team, or personal project
- Proficiency in one or more of TypeScript, React, Go, Python, or SQL
This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a US person as: any individual who is granted U.S. citizenship; or. any individual who is granted U.S. permanent residence ("Green Card" holder); or. any individual who is granted status as a "protected person" under 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3).
The Advanced Manufacturing Company of America prohibits discrimination or harassment based on the following categories: race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 years and over), sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves (requesting or approved for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act or the California Family Rights Act), domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, and any other status protected by state or federal law.
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