🚀 MaiaSpace is a European space tech company, designing, manufacturing and operating competitive and sustainable solutions for space mobility. We are driven by the belief that access to space is a major enabler for a better and more sustainable life on Earth, addressing the challenges faced by humanity: climate, resources, connectivity, and data. Our aim is to successfully design and test a cost-effective and reusable mini-launch vehicle by 2026.

Your Team:

You will join the "Colibri" team, in charge of the kick-stage of the launcher. This kick-stage mission is to increase the performance of the Maia launcher. It will in the future offers In-Orbit Mobility services, such as debris removal, satellite relocation and deorbitation.

As a member of this agile team, you will have a lot of interactions with your teammates, but also with the other teams of the company, and will be able to learn and exchange with experts of the space industry.

At MaiaSpace, we put teamwork at the centre of our work culture, and we expect our team members to share the same core values: respect, solidarity, humility, passion, reactivity and autonomy.

Your mission:

your main objective will be to reproduce by analysis the behaviour of mechanical samples (bonded riveted joints) using test data.
A second step will be to devise a modelling (and associated failure criteria) simple enough to be integrated into large scale system level models while still reproducing the behaviour of the joint.

Keep in mind that this mission is the baseline of the internship. Your role might evolve depending on the team's priorities, your competences and your interests.

Requirements:

Your profile:

You are a student enrolled in a mechanical engineering or aerospace engineering degree (Bac +3/+4/+5).

Your skills:

• Required

  • mechanical engineering training

  • knowledge of Finite Element Analysis and associated tools

  • autonomy

• Desired

  • speak both French and English

  • experience on HyperMesh 

  • experience on bonded joint design

  • you are passionate about the space domain, especially the new space ecosystem

  • familiar with agile project management.

Conditions 

• 3/4 months from June/July 2026

• Location : La Défense/Courbevoie (potential business trips to Vernon in Normandie and/or Rennes in Brittany)

🎬 Working at MaiaSpace:

You will be joining a friendly multi-disciplinary team, comprised of multi-skilled people, following Agile and Scrum methodologies. This means that your role and responsibility may evolve over time with varied assignments and challenges depending on priorities and competences. Your work will be hands-on and in close contact with the final product. We are open-minded, transparent, pragmatic, result oriented and people centric. Teamwork is at the heart of how we work together, and our co-workers share the same fundamental values: respect, humility, reactivity and autonomy with a passion for technical excellence. Our newly acquired office space at La Defense is located within the heart of Europe’s largest purpose built business and commercial district with easy access to public transport. Also, we have a second location integration site in Vernon (27). Regular trips between the two locations are to be expected. These displacements may be extended to Kourou when the time comes. The company allows home office when it is compatible with your responsibilities.

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