Telemetry streaming off a gas turbine at full power. A design loop that turns a new turbine blade around overnight. A factory where the machines will close out their own work orders. At Boom, you will build the software that gets supersonic-derived hardware designed, built, and tested, on day one of your career.
Most of your graduating class will go optimize ad clicks, dashboards, and checkout funnels. There is nothing wrong with that work except that it is the same work, at a thousand companies, behind the same login screens. We hire a small number of extraordinary computer science graduates who want the other thing: hard software problems attached to physical machines, with fire coming out one end.
Boom exists to bring back commercial supersonic flight. Overture, our supersonic airliner, is the long game, and getting there means building turbomachinery faster than anyone ever has. Today that is Superpower, a natural gas turbine for next-generation AI data centers, on a development schedule nobody in the industry believes until they see it. The software problems on that path don't have playbooks. You will write them.
You will be placed on one of four teams, based on your interests and where you'll do your best work:
- Boomie is the software platform that runs how Boom designs, buys, and builds hardware. Most aerospace companies bolt themselves onto whatever vendor system they bought. We inverted it: we own the integration layer forever and treat every vendor system underneath as replaceable. You will build the data models and workflows that trace every part of a human-rated engine from supplier to field.
- Telemetry is the streaming data problem. Near-realtime distributed systems where the data source is an engine on a test stand, a fleet of deployed turbines, or a machine on our factory floor. It is the classic big data problem, except the data source is on fire on purpose.
- Design & Analysis builds the tools that make Boom's design engineers faster than everyone else's, across every discipline that shapes an engine: applied aerodynamics, turbine design, combustion, structures, and whole-engine performance modeling. GPU-native CFD runs on a cluster we own and operate, and the feedback loop for your software is a real engine build.
- DevOps runs the compute Boom stands on. HPC clusters and their pipelines, automation across fleets of wildly different machines, deploy pipelines for every application we ship, and the uptime of all of it. This is infrastructure as a software discipline, and it takes real software chops.
This job isn't for everyone. You're the right person if:
- You've done something extraordinary early: shipped software with real users, built the systems your club or lab depends on, or done work in an internship that most engineers don't see for years
- You love building and want to work long, smart, and hard to create things that have real impact
- You want ownership, not guidance
- You get more energized when a problem gets harder, not less
- You're uncomfortable waiting for someone else to find the answer
- The test stand and the factory floor sound more interesting to you than a sprint planning meeting
What you'll do:- Own a defined piece of your team's software, with real accountability for the outcome
- Sit with the engineers, technicians, and test crews who use your software, and build what they actually need
- Ship code your first week, and a tool in daily use by the end of your first month
- Work with AI as a first-class part of the job: agents as coding partners, and interfaces designed for agents as well as humans
- Iterate fast: figure out what's wrong, fix it, and move on to the next problem
You probably have:- A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent evidence that you can build
- At least one thing you built and shipped that people other than you used: a club tool, an open source project, a lab pipeline, a personal system that runs your life. This is required, not a nice-to-have. School projects alone do not clear it
- An internship or co-op where you shipped something real
- Strong computing fundamentals and genuine curiosity about how things work all the way down
- A track record of finishing hard things, inside school and outside of it
You will thrive here if:- You want ownership, not guidance
- You get more energized when a problem gets harder, not less
- You're comfortable not knowing the answer yet, and uncomfortable waiting for someone else to find it
- You'd rather watch a machinist fight a workflow for an hour than read a requirements document about it
The ramp here is steep and the expectations are high from day one. Engineers who want a structured development program, a mentor rotation, and a clearly defined lane should look elsewhere. Engineers who want to spend their first year shipping software that hardware programs depend on, and being held to it, should apply.
Work LocationInternships require 100% onsite at Boom's headquarters located at 6803 S Tucson Way, Centennial, CO 80112.
CompensationThe Base Salary Range for this position is $92,000 - $124,000 per year. Actual salaries will vary based on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Boom's total rewards package for employees. Other rewards may include long-term incentives/equity, a flexible PTO policy, and many other progressive benefits. Additional perks include on-site meals and gym access.
ITAR RequirementTo conform to U.S. Government aerospace technology export regulations (ITAR and EAR), applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Due to the nature of this position, candidates must be eligible to access export-controlled information and technology as required by applicable U.S. export control laws. Learn more about ITAR here.
