NCSG AI Feature Development Internship (Summer 2027)

Collier Aerospace is seeking motivated and eager North Carolina State college students to join our NCSG Intern cohort. Collier Aerospace’s primary product, HyperX®, is a .NET desktop application used by engineers from amazing aerospace companies all around the world. Collier is currently adapting and expanding HyperX to integrate with emerging AI-based tools and workflows. During this internship, you will help develop and maintain new software tools within HyperX® to support this endeavor.

Required Qualifications

Candidates should have a computer science or software engineering background and a strong interest in AI/ML technology development. We are looking for the following abilities and related work experience:

Candidates should have many of the following capabilities and related work experience:

• US citizen (required)
• In-progress bachelor’s degree in one of the following disciplines;
• • Computer science,
  • Software engineering,
  • Or a related field
• Hard skills:
• • Proficiency in an object-oriented, statically typed language (C#, C++, or Java); C# and .NET preferred
  • Demonstrated ability to read, navigate, and extend a large codebase (especially in collaboration with others)
  • Strong grasp of data structures and algorithms, including the ability to justify design decisions and reason about complexity
  • Working knowledge of:
  • • Concurrency and thread safety
    • Databases and structured database formats (e.g. JSON, XML)
• Relevant (but not required) experience:
• • Setting up custom AI workflows/environments/tools
  • Setting up, training, or running LLMs (or smaller models) locally
  • Data science, with libraries such as NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, etc.
  • Experience with context retrieval pipelines

Roles and Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with Collier's engineering team to define use-cases for AI tools.
• Collaborate with the research team and development team to plan, design, and prototype new features that facilitate interoperability between AI tools and HyperX®.
• Develop and test these tools with C#.
• Support development and maintenance of existing tools such as MCP servers and RAG systems.

Why Collier Aerospace?

• Jump-start your career with opportunities to learn from and work closely with other leading software developers
• Gain exposure to real-world aircraft and spacecraft designs across commercial, defense, and space sectors
• Small company – provides opportunity for involvement in many aspects of the business and gain many new hard and soft skills
• Casual work environment