About the role#
Draper is looking for a student to join the Digital Retrieval, Engineering, Architecture, and Management (DREAM) Group as a Requirements Engineering Intern for Summer 2027. You will work under the guidance of a lead engineer to define, analyze, and document requirements for multi-domain national-security programs. This role offers hands-on experience with digital twins, digital threads, and model-driven engineering while building a foundation in systems engineering and data architecture.
What you'll do#
- Elicit functional and non-functional requirements from stakeholders and translate them into clear, verifiable specifications.
- Maintain requirement traceability matrices and contribute to technical and architectural decisions.
- Draft sections of technical reports, presentations, and requirement documents.
- Work with interdisciplinary teams, including systems engineering, machine learning, and data science.
- Identify gaps or conflicts in requirements and propose mitigations.
- Implement, test, and perform analysis on engineering solutions.
- Generate and present test reports including plots, tables, evaluation criteria, and conclusions.
- Participate in training on Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Trade Space Exploration (TSE), and Python-based data workflows.
What you'll need#
- Enrollment in an accredited full-time undergraduate or graduate degree program in engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related STEM field.
- US Citizenship.
- Scientific programming experience in Python.
- Strong verbal and written communication abilities.
- Experience translating high-level mission objectives into detailed, verifiable requirements specifications.
- Ability to conduct trade-space analysis within a model-driven environment.
- Demonstrated interest in systems engineering, Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), and Data Science.
- Familiarity with MagicDraw or other SysML tools.
- Exposure to trade-space exploration, data-state management, and multi-domain data architectures.
- Ability to adapt to shifting priorities in a process-oriented environment.
Location & details#
- This is a full-time, on-site internship.
- Locations: Lowell, Massachusetts; Cambridge, Massachusetts; or Huntsville, Alabama.
About Draper
Draper is a nonprofit engineering firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company provides engineering services to government, industry, and academic partners. Its work spans domains from undersea environments to space systems. With a staff of nearly 3,000 employees, the company focuses on technical challenges in national security and health.
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