Internship: Material Research & Engineering Automation (m/f/d)

Join our Propulsion and Equipment department in Munich and contribute to the development of cryogenic regulation valves and high-performance fluid systems. You will bridge the gap between traditional material science, modern digital tools, and tangible hardware engineering. Your tasks include:

• Focus on Materials: Conduct advanced literature research on material compatibility and key properties in challenging aerospace contexts (with a strong focus on liquid hydrogen and other propellants).

• Build Knowledge Databases: Leverage modern digital tools (including LLMs and AI) to efficiently extract, cross-reference, and structure complex research data into intelligent, company-wide engineering databases.

• Explore Engineering Automation: Assist the team in researching and implementing automated workflows for CAD activities, such as AI-assisted drawing creation and parametric design to eliminate repetitive tasks.

• Get Hands-On: Support hardware activities, including the physical inspection and tear-down of components after testing to evaluate actual material behavior against theoretical data.

• Impact the Design: Contribute directly to design-relevant decisions based on your material research, database insights, and automated workflows.

• Currently enrolled in a relevant engineering or science discipline (e.g., Materials Engineering, Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering, Chemistry).

• Motivated, pragmatic, and self-organized personality.

• Strong interest in complex aerospace equipment and material behavior under extreme conditions.

• Modern engineering mindset: You are eager to use AI, LLMs, and novel digital approaches not just for data gathering, but also to explore how we can automate repetitive design and CAD tasks.

• Experience with CAD tools is a plus, particularly if combined with an interest in scripting, automation, or AI-assisted design.

• Hands-on mindset for hardware-related activities (inspection, assembly, testing).

• Fluency in English (German and further languages are a plus).

• Internship can be mandatory or voluntary

• Above average remuneration

• Guided but self-determined problem solving to realize your ideas

• Deep dive into the domain of commercial spaceflight and mobility

• Opportunity for an adjacent employment as working student or for thesis

• Flexible entry date, the sooner the better with flexible working hours

• Holiday entitlement above German standards