FlightAware - Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025 (Remote)

Date Posted:

2024-10-30

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HTX99: Field Office - TX Remote Location, Remote City, TX, 73301 USA

Position Role Type:

Remote

Would you like to engineer software that provides businesses actionable, aviation data and allows family & friends to track their loved ones when traveling?

FlightAware, part of Collins Aerospace, has built the world's leading aviation software platform, processing over 300+ million incoming messages an hour from almost 40,000 individual data feeds—more than 5 terabytes a day and growing! We provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight-tracking service and are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

FlightAware is looking for a software engineering intern for our Flight Tracking crew who is excited about what we're doing—you don't need to know anything about the flight tracking ecosystem, but you should be excited to learn and if you happen to be an aviation enthusiast, you’ll fit right in! As a FlightAware intern, you’ll be a full team member within a highly collaborative, ambitious, and future-reaching organization. Our engineering group champions intellectual curiosity, openness, and industry-leading technical innovation. We invest in building excellent internal tooling and engineering support in order to create a productive and highly effective team that anticipates the future and leads by example.

Our Engineering blog (Angle of Attack ) has posts from almost every wing (i.e team) within FlightAware and gives a glimpse at the type of work each team does. If you would like to learn more about what our past interns have accomplished, visit 2024 Intern Summer Projects & Blast from the past: 2023 Intern Projects

Regardless of role, we expect excellent interpersonal and communication skills across all hires at FlightAware. We look for candidates who will thrive here, meaning they demonstrate clear communication, embrace open feedback, trust their colleagues, and are driven to execute, deliver, and complete projects independently and efficiently.

This is a full-time internship, scheduled for June - August 2025 (approximately 12 weeks).

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What You Will Do:

• Work on a focused project to teach you the fundamentals of the software development lifecycle and give you an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution.

• Develop new and innovative technology in an agile environment that solves interesting problems.

• Collaborate with the brightest technical minds in building software products while leveraging advanced technology, researching groundbreaking concepts, and influencing new ideas to transform the aviation ecosystem.

• Learn alongside our industry’s most talented engineers and receive focused mentorship and guidance. We work in teams to solve problems, explore new technologies, and learn from one another.

• Attend daily team standup meetings and have regular one-on-one check-ins with your leader and mentor.

What You Will Learn:

• You will learn how to create and code appropriate solutions from broadly described challenges.

• You will apply theoretical knowledge you’ve learned about software languages and systems during your education in a professional setting.

• You will gain experience working in a fast-paced workplace to produce high-quality, tested software.

• You will have opportunity for advanced learning, to upgrade your skills and evolve as a developing software engineer.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Requires a High School Diploma or equivalent and student must be pursuing a Bachelor's or advanced degree in an applicable discipline.

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future. RTX will not offer sponsorship for this position.