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Overview

Starpath develops and manufactures technologies to enable human life on the Moon and Mars, focusing on building robotic systems for essential commodities. They are hiring early-career engineers, both interns and associates, to work on real hardware alongside senior engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Own a scoped project as a contributing member of a discipline team.
  • Ramp on Starpath's engineering process, tools, and technical stack under mentorship.
  • Contribute to design reviews, test campaigns, and manufacturing improvements.
  • Present your work internally and at the end of your internship.
  • Take on progressively harder problems as you build depth.
  • Ask hard questions and push back when something doesn't make sense.

Requirements

  • For Interns: Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's program in engineering, chemistry, materials science, physics, computer science, or a related discipline.
  • Must be a rising junior or senior at the time of the internship.
  • For Associates: Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering, chemistry, materials science, physics, computer science, or a related discipline; 0-2 years of full-time experience.
  • Collegiate project team or laboratory experience.
  • CAD skills and ability to make high quality engineering drawings.
  • Demonstrated hands-on fabrication, laboratory, or build skills.
  • High competence with engineering first principles in your discipline.
  • U.S. Person status is required.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Location: Los Angeles (Hawthorne), CA
  • Employment Type: Internship
  • Travel: Occasional
  • Application Type: Rolling / Ongoing

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Hawthorne, CA currently run a median of $35/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $31–$58/hr across 40 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Hawthorne, CA

We're tracking 44 other active welding openings in Hawthorne, CA right now, from 6 different employers. 13 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 592 other active welding openings from 268 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Hawthorne, or widen the search to California.

Starpath currently has 3 other openings live in California, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (37), Vast (18), and Relativity Space (17). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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