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Overview

As a Welding Engineering Intern, you will work alongside our Welding, Manufacturing, Design, and Materials Engineering teams to develop, test, and improve welding processes used to build spacecraft and propulsion systems. This internship provides hands-on experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Support the development, testing, and optimization of welding processes and parameters.
  • Assist with weld development activities across processes including laser beam welding, friction stir welding, gas tungsten arc welding, and orbital tube welding.
  • Work closely with design, manufacturing, tooling, automation, and materials engineers to improve welded designs and manufacturing processes.
  • Assist with preparing test hardware and documenting weld development results.
  • Help troubleshoot welding and manufacturing issues and identify root causes.
  • Work hands-on alongside welders and engineers in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Requirements

  • Completion or working towards a degree in engineering or related field.
  • Ability to take project ownership and work well in a small team.
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience with basic fabrication tools and processes.

Additional Information

  • This internship is 12 weeks long and will run from May/June to August/September of 2027.
  • Willing and able to work on-site in Redondo Beach, CA, for the duration of the internship.
  • This position may require overtime hours; interns are eligible for overtime pay.
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How this job compares in Redondo Beach, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting comes in about 14% below the $35/hr median for welding jobs across California, where the middle half runs $28–$48/hr across 450 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 29% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Redondo Beach, CA

Redondo Beach, CA currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 1 employer. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 586 other active welding openings from 267 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Redondo Beach, or widen the search to California.

Impulse Space currently has 5 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), Relativity Space (22), and Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (18). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $61/hr, Santa Ana at $48/hr, and Long Beach at $43/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Weld Engineering Intern (Summer 2027) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.