2026 Cloud Software Engineering Grad Intern

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation’s space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space— delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you’ll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators. Join us and take your place in space.

The Aerospace Corporation is hiring a Cloud Software Engineering Grad Intern for the  Datacentric Platforms and Architectures Department (DPAD) within the Information Systems and Cyber Division (ISCD).  This position will be full-time and 100% onsite at our office in Colorado Springs, CO.

Job Summary

Information Systems and Cyber Division (ISCD) staff couple the latest in information system technologies, such as elastic compute clouds, containerization, microservices, real-time operating systems, and visualization frameworks, with expertise in cyber security, software architecture, software engineering, data science, Artificial Intelligence, process improvement, and software development to deliver responsive, resilient, high-performance software intensive systems to our Intelligence Community, DoD, and civilian customers. 

DPAD develops data analysis pipelines, tools and platforms to enable the full exploitation of historical and streaming data sets for a variety of civil and national security space customers. Cloud native applications are critical to effectively scale to meet the growing demands of data analysis. Do you want to do cutting edge cloud native development to support analysis and Mod & Sim platforms in the areas of launch, orbit analysis, and more?

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Developing cloud native applications to solve some of the toughest problems currently facing the space enterprise.

• Working with and learning from a group of developers and subject matter experts to support a broad array of space-related projects and advance your own skills.

• Leveraging the cloud to provide data engineering and data architecture solutions as our customers’ data volumes continue to grow at exponential rates.

• Interfacing with project leaders, product owners, and customers to convey your key contributions to a project.

• Working closely with National Security Space, United States Space Force, and other Department of Defense customers

What Corporate Skills You’ll Bring  

• Strong written and oral communication skills  

• Must work well in a team environment.  

• Possess organizational, time management and project management skills.  

• Demonstrate flexibility and ability to adapt to changing organizational need.  

• Interpersonal skills to coordinate efforts and work with other internal and external organizations.  

What You Need to be Successful   

Minimum Requirements:  

• Currently enrolled full-time in an accredited college/university program pursuing a Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.   

• Availability to work full-time for a minimum of 10 weeks outside of university term and ability to return to a degree program full-time after completion of the internship. 

• Minimum GPA of 3.0   

• Intermediate programming ability in Python and/or Java 

• Must have hands-on experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud 

• Ability to containerize an application using Docker.

• Hands-on experience with utilizing REST APIs

• Ability to use Git for source control.

• This position requires ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the US government. U.S citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance. 

• Transcripts required.  

How You Can Stand Out 

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:  

• GPA of 3.5 or higher  

• Active security clearance  

• Experience using FastAPI or Flask (Python) and/or Springboot (Java) to develop microservices. 

• Ability to create REST APIs

• Ability to deploy applications to Kubernetes.

• Intermediate programming ability in C, C++, Rust, and/or Go. 

• Ability to