Mechanical Design Engineering Co-op (Summer/Fall 2027)

About the role

Are you ready to explore the world of aerospace and defense? Do you want to learn from and collaborate with some of the greatest minds in the industry? At RTX, our internships, co-ops and full-time careers provide an exceptional foundation to work on complex problems, advance your skills and create a safer, more connected world. Discover opportunities to make a difference at RTX.

Responsibilities

• Review completed layouts and drawings to ensure clarity, completeness, conformity to standards, procedures, specifications, and accuracy of calculations and dimensioning.
• Communicate with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated design and ensure project completion.
• Support a Design lead in the creation and review of components, calculates stack-up of detail components, and performs analysis to substantiate model and print definition.
• Resolve design problems of difficult scope to ensure project completion.
• Engage with manufacturing and engineering counterparts to collaborate on production problem solving opportunities.
• Will be utilized as an individual contributor diagnosing and solving problems and building engineering capabilities.
• Will follow common procedures and standard work across the organization to optimize efficiency and quality of work performed.
• Develop data and make layouts, sketches, and notes necessary to present design proposals.
• Design components or portions of functional systems with assistance of experienced contributors and brainstorming technically advanced prototypes using computer design and engineering systems.
• Investigate pertinent design factors such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replaceability, strength-weight efficiency, and contractual specification requirements and cost.
• Design, develop and test metallic or non-metallic structures or materials and their related fabrication processes for use in engineering designs.

Requirements

• Must be pursuing Bachelor’s or Advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) major and actively enrolled through the completion of the internship/co-op session.
• Experience may be obtained through on-the-job experience, research, coursework, or projects.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Qualifications

• Experience with manufacturing techniques
• Experience with Aerospace and Industrial Power Transmission systems
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and/or PowerPoint)
• Prior RTX internship, co-op, or work experience

Skills

• Rotating Machinery in Aerospace
• Inter-team communication