
2027 Mission Assurance / Quality Assurance Intern - Roy UT
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Northrop Grumman seeks a Mission Assurance/Quality Assurance engineering intern for its Defense Systems Sector in Roy, Utah. The intern will join the Strategic Deterrent Systems Division and support design-package compliance, engineering architecture, product reviews, quality management, and continuous improvement. The internship is for summer 2027, with full-time availability for at least 10 weeks required.
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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: No
Description
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.
Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is a full-spectrum provider of innovative mission critical solutions in aircraft sustainment and modernization, training and simulation, integrated battle command systems, advanced weapons, and software development and IT modernization and sustainment, focused on dynamic mission-sets with quick-turn requirements for a wide variety of national security, military and civilian customers. Defense Systems aspires to be the fastest growing global defense solutions provider, and we deliver a full spectrum of readiness, decision-making, and effects capabilities and solutions.
An internship at Northrop Grumman is unique. Sure, you’ll learn new skills, explore our enterprise, network with experts, connect with thought leaders, and finish with a resume that opens doors. But you’ll gain something even more valuable: pride in what you’ve done. Join us and launch your career. We’ll support you with training, professional development and networking opportunities, and our shared vision of global security.
Northrop Grumman is seeking Mission Assurance/Quality Assurance engineers for an internship opportunity. This position will be located at our Defense Systems Sector in Roy, UT.
The qualified candidate will become part of Northrop Grumman’s Strategic Deterrent Systems Division (SDSD).
You will be responsible for checking design packages for proper content and to ensure compliance to applicable company, customer, and industry modeling standards.
Other typical duties include:
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Analyzing and validating electromechanical hardware models, systems, and other related documents (e.g., GD&T, materials, form/fit/function, manufacturability, feasibility, and economy of fabrication).
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Supporting systems engineering architectural activities and maintaining descriptive system models, interfaces, physical/functional block diagrams, and coordinating with integrated product teams for establishing content within the system architecture.
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Recommending changes/revisions to product definition packages necessary for approval and buy-off during multiphase review meetings as a Mission Assurance / Design Assurance representative.
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Maintaining a Quality Management System ensuring that products and services conform to company standards of excellence (e.g., AS9100, Statement of Work).
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Reviewing practices, procedures, and processes aiming to standardize and continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness to reduce risk to product quality.
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Participating in engineering boards as a Mission Assurance / Design Assurance representative.
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Preparing / presenting reports, briefings, and metrics of internal and program-wide insights / recommendations to internal / external customers.
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Reviewing subcontractor design work and providing recommendations for approval.
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Performing other Mission Assurance related tasks and objectives (e.g., program improvement efforts, collaborations, planning).
Basic Qualifications
A candidate must meet ALL of the below criteria. The candidate must:
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Be a student who is enrolled full-time and pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree from an accredited college/university and will be enrolled full time in Fall 2027.
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Be majoring in or having majored in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aeronautical or Mechanical Engineering.
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Be available to work full-time (40 hours per week) for at least 10 weeks during summer 2027.
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Be able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite)
Preferred Qualifications:
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Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.70/4.0 or higher
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Current active Secret Security Clearance or higher
Intern Pay Range for Roy, UT:
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Bachelor’s: $23.00 to $29.00 per hour
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Master’s: $32.75- $35.50 per hour
At Northrop Grumman, our internship pay rates are standardized and take into account three main factors: the anticipated graduation date of the individual, the cost of labor of the geographic location, and whether the internship is considered technical or administrative.
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The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
Job Category: Administrative Services
How this job compares
Set against the 4,950 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$23–35.5/hr
- US median$26–31/hr844 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $29.25/hr, is 3% above the US median midpoint ($29/hr) — in the middle half of Quality Assurance hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 89 open Quality Assurance jobs in Utah and 4,950 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Utah
- Northrop Grumman (this employer)18 open
- ALBANY INTERNATIONAL, CORP.6 open
- Oracle4 open
- Experience
- Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 6 years (3,819 postings).
- Education
- 1,824 of the 4,950 open Quality Assurance jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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