GNC Intern - Vehicle Control During Take-Off (6 Months)

📍 Location: Paris Region (on-site) 🛰️ Sector: Next-generation European Defense / Counter-UAS 💼 Type: Internship (6 months) ⏳ Start date: February 2027 (flexible) 💰 Compensation: 1500€/month

About EGIDE

EGIDE is building Europe’s next defense champion. We design autonomous interceptor systems to counter emerging aerial threats, including kamikaze and loitering drones. Our focus is on high-performance interceptor hardware, combining missile-grade engineering discipline with rapid iteration and system-level optimization. We develop effectors where mechanical architecture, mass distribution, structural integrity, and environmental robustness are mission-critical.

This is a great place to do an internship: you’ll join a small, ambitious team in a fast-moving environment, with direct exposure to the full hardware cycle, from design and analysis to build and flight testing.

About the internship

As part of pre-projects for future products or evolutions of existing systems, this internship focuses on developing vehicle control techniques during the take-off phase and transition to the boost phase.

Your mission will include:

• Literature review: Explore existing solutions for controlling vehicles in similar conditions.

• Actuator selection: Identify and evaluate suitable actuators to ensure controllability during take-off.

• Controllability analysis and control law design: Analyze the vehicle’s ability to respond to control inputs, design and test algorithms to stabilize and guide the vehicle.

• Simulation and validation: Implement control laws in Python or MATLAB/Simulink and validate them through simulations.

• Testing: Possibility to validate your designs through real-world testing on prototypes or full-scale systems.

You will be able to work closely with our engineering team to bring your solutions from theory to practice. Your work and results will have a direct impact on the development of our future products.

You Are a Fit If

• You are currently in the final year of an engineering degree, with a specialization in Applied Mathematics, Control Theory, Signal Processing, or Aeronautics.

• You have basic knowledge of control theory, modeling, simulation of autonomous systems, aerodynamics, and flight mechanics.

• You are proficient in Python or MATLAB/Simulink.

• You are proactive, open-minded, and enjoy bridging hardware and software systems.

Why Join EGIDE as an Intern?

• Build the future of European defense capability

• Work on real systems that fly fast

• Learn from experienced engineers in a small, ambitious team where your ideas are heard

• Get direct exposure to the full chain: algorithms, simulation, integration and field testing

• High-autonomy engineering culture: real responsibility from day one

• Competitive compensation: 1500€/month, meal vouchers & 50% public transport reimbursement

• A real path forward: strong performers may be offered a full-time position after the internship