For more than 30 years, ERC has been delivering the advantage needed to solve our customers’ and the nation’s toughest challenges. ERC is a trusted partner to the Defense and Space communities. We provide the advanced engineering, innovative technology, and subject-matter expertise to deliver the mission results our customers need to keep the nation safe and secure. Our unique solutions enhance readiness, optimize performance, and help ensure success in the air, on the ground and in space.

An essential part of our success is our corporate culture built on respect, empowerment, and collaboration. Our culture elevates our people, ensuring they provide best-in-class service and solutions to our customers. We always strive to do the right thing. We believe that are our people are our best asset and human connection our greatest strength.

Our ~2,000 employees work on the most critical missions in the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force (USAF), NASA, and Missile Defense Agency (MDA). We provide support for Test and Evaluation (T&E), Modeling & Simulation, Agile Software Development, Systems Engineering, and more. Our teams’ current projects range from engineering and logistics support for vital space hardware to platform and weapons modeling, simulation, and engineering.

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Your role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Software Intern to develop Simulation and Visualization software for Lunar robotics platforms. This position will support the LASSO II Contract located at Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, FL.

**This position will be full-time throughout the summer and is expected to extend into the fall.**

 What you’ll do all day:

• Develop software for multiple robotics platforms, focusing on simulation and visualization of lunar robotic missions.
• Develop, debug, integrate, and test using tools such as Unity, ROS2, Github, C#, C .
• 3D modeling of in-app assets using CAD tools such as Creo or Blender.
• Support software documentation efforts, software test plan efforts, software catalog release plan efforts, project status reporting efforts, technical conference report writing efforts, final project report writing efforts.
• Support mid-term and final stakeholder demonstrations.

You will love this job if you:

• Are a self-starter and require little oversight to complete given tasks
• Enjoy a fast-paced work environment
• Love working with diverse groups of individuals, including engineers and technicians
• Are good at communicating with people
• Have a positive attitude
• Enjoy multitasking

Minimum requirements for this position:

• Currently enrolled in an accredited college or university program leading to a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with Unity. Unity Features to include Prefabs, Scriptable Objects, Unity UI, Shader Graph, Computer Shaders, Mesh Generation (if working with the terrain directly)
• Experience with ROS2.
• Knowledge of coding in C# to include class types (interfaces, abstract classes, etc.), LINQ, Working with Lists/Collections, General object-oriented skills (polymorphism, inheritance, etc.), Events
• General knowledge of how to use QGIS. Being able to crop data and translate it into different file, scales, and data formats.
• U.S. Citizenship is required for all applicants

What we offer:

• Competitive salaries.
• Continuing education assistance.
• Professional development allotment.
• Multiple healthcare benefit packages.
• 401K with employer matching.
• Paid time off (PTO) along with federally recognized holiday schedule.