STARLIT Industry Scholar Internship Opportunities - Summer 2025

Do you want to help a small company make a BIG difference in space? Do you take ownership of your job and responsibility for your actions? Then come work for Red Canyon and help us continue our mission of helping humankind reach the stars!

Red Canyon Software is looking to hire 2 undergraduate or graduate students to assist us with building out our Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) flight software library for spacecraft for Summer 2025.  Students will be utilizing Core Flight Software (cFS) and F’ flight software frameworks.  Students will need to be fluent in C, Python and familiar with GNC algorithms and associated hardware (reaction wheels, inertial reference units, star cameras, etc.).

40 hours per week

10 week internship May 2025-August 2025

About STARLIT

The STARLIT Scholars program supports research and industry internships for CU Boulder undergraduate students. The univerSiTy spAce stRategic technoLogy IniTiative (STARLIT) award unites research institutions, aerospace companies and the Department of Defense to develop technologies and workforce strategies relevant to the US Space Force. Led by Principal Investigator Marcus Holzinger, STARLIT advances cislunar space domain awareness (SDA) research and transferrable technology, while also expanding the space workforce. For more information, please see our website: https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/holzinger/starlit  

Required:

• Currently enrolled at the University of Colorado Boulder as an undergraduate or masters degree student.
• Majoring in a STEM degree program, including aerospace engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, etc. 
• Must have previous experience with the following:
• o   Guidance, Navigation, and Control software
• o   Python, C/C++, RTOS, MATLAB/Simulink, Linux
• o   Algorithm development
• General understanding of coding best practices and standards
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Ability to work independently or with a team
• Self- starter, analytical, tenacious problem solver
• Passion for aerospace
• US Citizen

Red Canyon Engineering and Software: “Exploring Other Planets, Improving our Own”

Red Canyon contracts with NASA, NOAA, NREL, JPL, and DOD, in addition to customers such as Lockheed Martin Space, Raytheon, Sierra Space, a.i. solutions, Walt Disney Imagineering, SAIC, Sidus Space, Ball Aerospace, SpaceX, Honeywell, KBRwyle, Peraton, LASP, Maxar, Blue Origin, and Moog. We specialize in building spacecraft, developing renewable energy technologies to help make our planet a better world and cutting edge research and development. Our disciplines include embedded flight software, software testing, GN&C, systems engineering, mechanical design, structural analysis, real time flight and ground software, simulation software, user interface software, and mission management software. We help our contractors with the full life cycle of product development from requirements to test and delivery.

Some of the programs we have previously or currently worked on include: Human Lander System, Artemis I-II, WorldView Legion V, Perseverance Rover, InSight, GeoXO, Tranche-1, LizzieSat, Dream Chaser, Psyche, Mars 98, Odyssey 01, Stardust, Genesis and Deep Impact, Mars Phoenix, Joint Polar Satellite System, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Orion, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GOES-R, OSIRIS-REx, Maven, JUNO, Grail, and the MarsFlight and LunarSIM Simulation.

Red Canyon’s home office is located in scenic Denver, Colorado, and our regional office, Launch Now, is in historic downtown Titusville, Florida. We are a small company that maintains a flat organization to decrease our overhead and costs to our customers. Our number one focus is to solve some of the most complicated engineering problems humankind is facing.

Does it sound like you want to join our mission?

Red Canyon Software, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Red Canyon Software, Inc does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.