Mechanical Engineering Intern Spring 2025
Location
Level
Internship
Department
Renewable Energy
Type
Salary
Job Description
Posted on:
2024-10-15
Thea Energy is offering an internship program for technical interns to join their team in the field of fusion energy engineering.
Responsibilities
- Develop and exercise design, analysis, and hands-on skills to support prototyping and stellarator design activities
- Support process development, fabrication, assembly, equipment design, and testing for HTS magnet prototyping programs
- Assist in the design, build, testing, and performance analysis of custom HTS magnets
- Support the development and execution of test equipment, facilities, and operations associated with custom HTS magnets and magnet-related hardware
- Assist in designing and developing various subsystems for stellarator fusion devices
- Model magnetically confined high-temperature fusion plasmas using computational tools
- Support computational physicists and plasma physicists in optimizing stellarator magnetic geometry for next-generation fusion devices
Job Requirements
- Enrolled in a STEM undergraduate or graduate program
- Interest in clean and sustainable energy
- Hands-on or computational experience in relevant fields
- Highly self-motivated and driven to solve problems
- Authorized to work in the US
- Willingness to learn new things