2026 Legal & Contracts Fall Internship

Responsibilities

• Prepares basic contract summaries and extracts key terms under close supervision.
• Affords assistance with document formatting, version control, and template comparisons.
• Observes internal and external negotiation meetings to build foundational understanding.
• Conducts preliminary research on clauses, regulations, and customer requirements.
• Performs basic research on regulations and summarizes findings for review.
• Affords assistance with compliance checklists and document organization.
• Learns foundational FAR/DFARS and NASA requirements.
• Flags obvious inconsistencies in documents for supervisor review.
• Identifies obvious inconsistencies or missing information in documents.
• Affords assistance with risk logs and tracking tools.
• Escalates potential issues to supervisors promptly.
• Learns basic risk categories (technical, schedule, financial, regulatory).
• Affords assistance with supplier documentation and data entry.
• Tracks basic subcontract milestones.
• Supports supplier communication under supervision.
• Learns subcontract terminology and flow-down concepts.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Working toward a undergraduate degree in Legal Studies, Pre-Law or Political Science, Business Administration or Management, Public Policy, or Public Administration. Or, a law degree (JD) or Masters in any of the above areas.
• Basic understanding of risk assessment.
• Project management or process-improvement experience (school project).
• Strong analytical writing.
• Comfort with technical documents.
• Professional communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with government contracting (FAR/DFARS)
• Exposure to export controls (ITAR/EAR)
• Experience with contract management tools

About The Company

Advanced Space exists to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space through software and services that leverage unique subject matter expertise. The company is actively supporting mission and cutting-edge capabilities spanning commercial, civil, and national security customers. Our core business is focused on three areas: (1) mission enabling services, (2) technology solutions and (3) mission solutions. Through its mission enabling services, Advanced Space provides mission and flight optimization, mission design, mission systems engineering. With its technology solutions Advanced Space provides its customers with trusted AI/ML/autonomy expertise, flight-demonstrated applications, and analysis at scale. Advanced Space offers Mission Solutions with unique turn-key missions, data and capabilities purchases and demonstrated cislunar and Martian success. Advanced Space is mission focused as the owner and operator of CAPSTONE™ for NASA and Prime contractor for Oracle for AFRL. These competencies are leveraged by a dynamic, flexible, and agile team with cross domain knowledge. We have a small but growing team that works collaboratively across projects. We provide flexibility, and an opportunity for passionate employees to contribute directly to meaningful projects. Trusted to take on the challenge, the team at Advanced Space is Delivering Innovation to Orbit™ to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Advanced Space, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Advanced Space, LLC recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.