About Us

The team at Advanced Space is leading humanity back to the Moon and pioneering innovative solutions in the space industry. Based in Westminster, Colorado, this incredible team is looking for a Machine Learning Intern who is eager to push the state of the art in aerospace applications. Interns are paired with a member of the technical staff, who will provide mentorship and oversee their summer projects. This internship provides hands-on experience designing, building, and testing machine learning models to solve real-world engineering challenges.

Advanced Space exists to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space through software and services that leverage unique subject matter expertise. We operate with core values: we are customer obsessed and mission focused; when we see it, we solve it; we are one team, motivated by our vision; and we bring technical excellence and inexhaustible curiosity.

We encourage university students at all levels to apply! Typically, our machine learning interns are graduate students or advanced undergraduates who have taken coursework in machine learning, mathematics, and/or computer science, with experience in programming and applied research.

Responsibilities

• Research and implement state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and techniques.
• Design, develop, and deploy ML models and systems for spacecraft autonomy, anomaly detection, natural language processing, uncertainty quantification, and multimodal signal detection.
• Perform data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability of ML solutions.
• Collaborate with aerospace and software engineers to deliver high-quality results.
• Document and present findings from project work.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Working toward a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with data processing libraries (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn).
• Experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Understanding of core ML concepts: supervised/unsupervised learning, classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction.
• Knowledge of software development best practices, including git version control.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a technical environment.
• Familiarity with aerospace engineering principles (e.g., nonlinear estimation, optimization, control theory) is a plus.

Nice to have

·       CUDA C/C++ GPU computing

• High performance/scientific computing
• Natural language processing
• Computer vision

Compensation/Perks

• Competitive internship compensation. $24-$34
• Mentorship and guidance from technical staff.
• Opportunities to contribute to research projects directly tied to active space missions.
• Collaborative work environment at our Westminster, Colorado headquarters.

Eligibility Requirements

• Applicants must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident/green card holder, or protected individual).
• Must be able to work in-person at our Westminster, CO headquarters 3–5 days per week.
• Applications reviewed on a rolling basis. Final deadline: Monday, November 3, 2025, at 11:59 pm MT.

About the company:

Advanced Space exists to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space through software and services that leverage unique subject matter expertise. The company is actively supporting mission and cutting-edge capabilities spanning commercial, civil, and national security customers. Our core business is focused on three areas: (1) mission enabling services, (2) technology solutions and (3) mission solutions. Through its mission enabling services, Advanced Space provides mission and flight optimization, mission design, mission systems engineering. With its technology solutions Advanced Space provides its customers with trusted AI/ML/autonomy expertise, flight-demonstrated applications, and analysis at scale. Advanced Space offers Mission Solutions with unique turn-key missions, data and capabilities purchases and demonstrated cislunar and Martian success. Advanced Space is mission focused as the owner and operator of CAPSTONE™ for NASA and Prime contractor for Oracle for AFRL.

These competencies are leveraged by a dynamic, flexible, and agile team with cross domain knowledge. We have a small but growing team that works collaboratively across projects. We provide flexibility, and an opportunity for passionate employees to contribute directly to meaningful projects. Trusted to take on the challenge, the team at Advanced Space is Delivering Innovation to Orbit™ to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Advanced Space, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Advanced Space, LLC recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.