2027 Intern - Mechanical Engineer (Weapons) - Wilmington, MA
Wilmington, MAFull-time$28–32/hrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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The Mechanical Engineer Intern will support next-generation technologies and proven platforms through research, trade studies, design concepts, performance calculations, analysis, testing, and troubleshooting. The role offers hands-on work across modeling, fabrication, assembly, structural design, fastening and joining, and measurement tools. The internship is a paid, full-time 10-week summer program with mentorship, training, and meaningful project work.
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2027 Intern - Mechanical Engineer (Weapons) - Wilmington, MA
Description
Why This Internship
As an intern with Textron, you’ll gain hands-on experience while exploring your interests and building new skills. You’ll be supported and challenged to contribute in meaningful ways – working on real projects alongside experienced professionals to prepare for future success.
Who We Are
Textron Systems serves defense and commercial customers with the combined expertise of its family of brands: Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, Lycoming Engines and ATAC. These segments offer specialized products and services that fall into several capability areas: Air; Land; Sea; Propulsion; Weapon Systems; Electronic Systems; and Test, Training & Simulation. We tap into these capabilities to deliver exceptional solutions, including product development and manufacturing, training, operations and support.
All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today.
Learn more about our products and history at TextronSystems.com.
About This Role
A Day in the Life of a Mechanical Engineer Intern:
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Providing engineering support on both next generation technologies and proven platforms that support and protect our deployed warfighter.
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Fulfilling daily responsibilities including research and trade studies, developing design concepts, performance calculations and analysis, and hands-on support of testing and troubleshooting.
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Opportunities that range from modeling, analysis, fabrication and assembly, structural design, fastening and joining, and operations of measurement tools.
Qualifications
What You’ll Need:
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Currently pursuing bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related fields and/or less than 2 years of relevant work experience.”
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This position requires an individual to be a U.S citizen with the ability to obtain a security clearance.
Why You’ll Love Interning at Textron
This internship is more than a summer experience — offering mentorship, training, and meaningful, hands-on work that helps you build confidence, develop new skills, and take real steps toward your career goals.
Our benefits include:
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Paid, full-time 10-week summer internship with a prepaid stipend
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Mentorship, training, and development opportunities
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Real project work and hands-on experience
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Service time credited toward 401(k) vesting upon full-time employment
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Alternative work schedules at select locations
About Textron
Textron is a global Fortune 500 company with a diverse portfolio of industry leading brands, including Bell, Beechcraft, Cessna, Pipistrel, Jacobsen, Kautex, Lycoming, E-Z-GO, and Textron Systems. We foster a culture where curiosity is encouraged, ideas are valued, and innovation drives real-world solutions.
Join Textron and build a career where your work makes an impact, your ideas are valued, and your growth is supported.
Textron’s compensation package includes competitive base pay and provides eligible employees with benefit programs. Benefits may include health insurance and prescription plan coverage, dental insurance, family building benefits, vision insurance, mental health resources, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and programs that provide employees time away from work. The pay range should be used as a general guide only. Compensation is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
In compliance with the local pay transparency law, the pay range for this position is
28 - 32 per hour.
EEO Statement
Textron is committed to providing Equal Opportunity in Employment, to all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability, sex (including pregnancy and sexual orientation), genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements, including US Citizenship, for access to classified information.
Recruiting Company: Textron Systems Primary Location: US-Massachusetts-Wilmington Job Function: Engineering Schedule: Full-time Job Level: Individual Contributor Job Type: Internship / Co-Op Shift: First Shift Job Posting: 11/05/2026 Job Number: 342566
How this job compares
Set against the 1,736 open Mechanical Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$28–32/hr
- US median$25–33/hr278 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $30/hr, is 3% above the US median midpoint ($29/hr) — in the middle half of Mechanical Engineering hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 65 open Mechanical Engineering jobs in Massachusetts and 1,736 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Massachusetts
- Formlabs4 open
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology3 open
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory3 open
- Experience
- Mechanical Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (968 postings).
- Education
- 775 of the 1,736 open Mechanical Engineering jobs (45%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 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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