Research Intern, Technical Data Curation

• Enter gold and audit values from tables and plots.
• Check entered values against the source page, and record each correction.
• Flag values that disagree between two readings, and help the team settle them.
• Lead one small calibration or evaluation study with a named deliverable.
• Work to a written plan with a named mentor, with a skills assessment at the start and the end.
• Write a short report on your study and present it to the team at the end of the summer.

• Careful, accurate work with numbers and units.
• Comfort working in spreadsheets.
• Clear writing.
• Interest in engineering data, measurement or how machine learning models are evaluated.

• Some programming, in Python or another language.
• Laboratory or wind-tunnel coursework.
• Coursework in statistics or experimental methods.
• Experience reading data from plots.

• Enrolled in an undergraduate program at any U.S. college or university, community colleges included.
• Coursework in aerospace or mechanical engineering, physics, mathematics, statistics or computer science.
• Care with numbers: reading values from tables and plots and checking them against the source.
• A short note on the calibration or evaluation study you would like to lead.

$22.00 an hour

A paid hourly W-2 internship with paid sick leave where state or local law requires it.

No application deadline. We accept applications for this role on an ongoing basis.

Remote, United States