Mechanical Engineering Intern

Location: ART Garage, Bengaluru

Duration: 2-month evaluation window for full-time conversion

Stipend:35,000/month

Start: Immediate

About QOSMIC

QOSMIC is building India's optical ground station and laser communication infrastructure for the space industry. We are seed-funded by Accel and Prosus, incubated at IISc, and our hardware ships to real customers. If you want to learn how space-grade hardware actually gets built, not simulated, this is the place.

Must-Haves

- 3rd year B.Tech or above in Mechanical, Aerospace, or related discipline. M.Tech preferred.

- Proven SolidWorks proficiency. You should be able to model a complex assembly with proper mates, configurations, and drawings without hand-holding.

- At least one prior project where you designed and built a non-trivial mechanical assembly (payload, satellite bus, drone airframe, robot, instrument package, optical setup). Hobby builds count if they were real.

- Comfort with hand calculations: stress, deflection, factor of safety, basic heat transfer.

- Cost and vendor awareness. If you have never asked a vendor for a quote, this role will frustrate you.

What You'll Do

You will sit inside the payload mechanical team and own real subsystems from day one. Specifically:

- Design optical and optomechanical payload assemblies in SolidWorks (mounts, baseplates, kinematic interfaces, optical benches)

- Run structural FEA on bracket and housing designs for launch loads and operational vibration

- Generate manufacturing drawings to GD&T standards, source vendors, get quotes, and follow up on fabrication

- Support integration and test: tolerance stack-ups, fit checks, alignment fixtures

- Document everything in build-of-materials, design notes, and test reports that someone else can read after you leave

Ideal Candidate

- Strong thermal engineering background: conduction, radiation, contact resistance, thermal cycling, vacuum environments. Coursework or projects involving thermal management of electronics or optics is a major plus.

- Experience with FEA tools (ANSYS, Abaqus, SolidWorks Simulation) beyond running tutorials.

- Familiarity with optomechanical design principles, kinematic mounts, a thermal design, or precision instrument engineering.

- Hands-on workshop experience: machining, fabrication, assembly.

- A portfolio. GitHub, Notion, PDF, doesn't matter. Show us things you have built.

How to Apply

Send to [careers@qosmic.space]:

1. Resume (1 page)

2. A short note (max 200 words) describing the most mechanically complex thing you have personally built and what went wrong with it

3. Links to any portfolio, GitHub, or project documentation

We read every submission. We respond to every shortlisted candidate within 7 days.