Materials Engineering Intern (Spring 2025)

Analytical Mechanics Associates (AMA) is currently accepting applications for a motivated intern to support multi-disciplinary engineering tasks related to materials informatics, artificial intelligence software development, and hands-on laboratory practice with a team of engineers at the AMA Hampton, VA office, beginning Spring 2025. The selected applicant will contribute to laboratory investigation of hot-pressed metallic materials including processing, structural characterization, and mechanical property testing; the selected applicant will also be tasked with combining datasets to support the development of a materials informatics software package. The qualified candidate will be a junior or senior undergraduate or graduate student. Specific tasks may include laboratory-scale hot-pressing of metallic powders, microstructural characterization (i.e., SEM), mechanical property testing (i.e., microhardness testing), curation of experimentally acquired data, and software development of a machine learning based model for optimized experimental design to satisfy multiple target requirements (i.e., active learning modeling). At the end of the program, the intern will gain hands-on experience working in a research environment applying technical skills in laboratory processing and characterization, and in developing integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) tools to support cutting-edge research in aerospace materials applications. In addition to completing the application on our website (www.ama-inc.com/careers) candidates selected for an interview will be required to provide 2 or more references.

Responsibilities

The successful applicant will assist AMA’s engineering team perform analyses on a range of advanced materials for aerospace subjects, which may include the following tasks.

• Performing literature reviews, developing models, and performing data analysis to define the design space and identify knowledge gaps.
• Assisting in the development of presentation and reporting materials to NASA and related agency stakeholders.
• Presenting and communicating technical data to an internal multidisciplinary team and on occasion customer stakeholders.
  
  

Specific responsibilities will be dependent on strengths and interests of each intern ranging from:

• Materials engineering tasks laboratory-scale materials processing, characterization, and mechanical testing.
• Technical tasks such as machine learning model development.
• Leadership opportunities such as organizing engineering sprints.
• Technical writing and documentation of projects and engineering processes.
  
  

Requirements

• Completion of at least 3 years of an undergraduate degree in Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in a materials laboratory research setting, including specimen preparation for SEM and SEM operation
• Experience or exposure to integrated computational materials engineering work.
• Technical writing experience with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a diverse team.
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Completion of a bachelor’s degree in Materials Engineering or a related field.
• The ideal candidate would be a graduate student or have several years of graduate level education and research.
• Project experience working with interdisciplinary teams on laboratory research of metallic powder processing, including machine learning model development for materials research applications.
• Published proposal, research/professional scientific article, paper, or conference presentation.
• Experience using GIT, numerical methods, and software optimization techniques.
• Individual with self-starter attitude and strong organizational skills.
• Previous exposure to metallic powder processing techniques such as hot-pressing.
  
  

Not all desired qualifications are necessary or expected from applicants. Tasks will be assigned based on applicant’s interest, niche skills, and strengths.

Candidate must be a US Citizenship or Permanent Resident.

Analytical Mechanics Associates (AMA) is proud of our customer relationships, our diverse and dynamic work environment, and our employees' career satisfaction. AMA is a small business with a wide reach; headquartered in Hampton, VA, AMA has operations in Greenbelt, MD; Huntsville, AL; Dallas and Houston, TX; Denver, CO; and Mountain View and Edwards Air Force Base, CA. With over 60 years of experience, AMA specializes in aerospace engineering, science, analytics, information technology, and visualization solutions. AMA combines the best of engineering, science, and mathematics capabilities with the latest in information technologies, visualization, and multimedia to build creative solutions.

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