Associate System Engineer

What you'd do

• Assist in designing and implementing Digital Engineering and Digital Thread solutions to seamlessly connect lifecycle data across engineering domains.
• Support the development of AI-ML automation models to optimize workflows, analyze complex datasets, and streamline repetitive engineering processes.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to build, clean, and preprocess data pipelines necessary for training machine learning algorithms.
• Learn foundational DevOps methodologies by actively participating in the maintenance of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Provide basic technical support for automated environments, helping troubleshoot infrastructure alerts and build failures.
• Gain hands-on exposure to containerization tools like Docker and version control workflows using Git to manage code infrastructure.
• Document system requirements, testing workflows, and software deployment steps to improve team knowledge sharing.
• Participate in agile team meetings, technical training sessions, and cross-functional code reviews to accelerate engineering skills.
• Ability to work in both office and manufacturing environments. (constant)
• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods and frequently talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, and keyboard. (frequent)

What they want

• Must be a high school graduate.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Currently enrolled or recently completed post-secondary program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong background and interest in one or more of: software development, embedded software development, software testing, data analysis.
• Experience with integrating machine learning algorithms into larger processes and systems.
• Competency in unit testing and debugging.
• Familiarity with GitHub and/or GitLab.
• Proficiency with object-oriented programming (e.g. Java, JavaScript, C++, Python) with the ability to write clean, well-documented code.
• Participation in extracurricular student engineering competitions.

About AeroVironment

AV isn’t for everyone. We hire the curious, the relentless, the mission-obsessed. The best of the best. We don’t just build defense technology—we redefine what’s possible. As the premier autonomous systems company in the U.S., AV delivers breakthrough capabilities across air, land, sea, space, and cyber.