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title: "Intern - Device Build"
company: "Navi AI"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/navi-ai"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/navi-ai-intern-device-build-9d27de92-2f14-4bba-b3a1-abe0abd002bf"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/navi/8fb91a5f-9b08-466f-9106-a0a391777160"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: internship
role: other
region: united-states
date_posted: 2026-08-19T17:49:35.315Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T18:13:39.412Z
---

# Intern - Device Build

**Navi AI** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/navi/8fb91a5f-9b08-466f-9106-a0a391777160

## About the role

Navi captures everything a pilot sees and hears and turns it into automated debrief intelligence — sortie-level awareness that has never existed before. None of it works without the hardware in the aircraft. That's what you'll build.

### About the role

This is a hands-on hardware internship. You'll build, test, and ship the devices that fly in real aircraft at university flight schools and military squadrons. Every unit you assemble ends up in a cockpit, capturing data a pilot and instructor will sit down and review that same day. Nothing here is a prototype exercise. Navi is already live at leading flight schools.

You'll work directly with our hardware and engineering teams, and you'll see the consequences of your work fast — if a unit fails, you'll hear about it, and you'll be part of fixing it.

### What you'll do

- Assemble, wire, and bench-test Navi devices — audio capture, mounting hardware, cable harnesses, enclosures

- Diagnose failures on returned or field-reported units and feed what you learn back into the build

- Help improve the build itself — fixturing, assembly documentation, anything that makes the next hundred units faster and more reliable than the last hundred

- Track inventory, components, and BOMs so we never stall a deployment waiting on a part

- Assist in preparing shipments, and willing to learn and assist in other tasks too

- Work alongside engineers across hardware, firmware, and software to close the loop between what we build and what pilots actually experience

### About you

- Currently pursuing a degree in engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience — we care more about what you've built than where you're enrolled

- Comfortable with hand tools, wiring and basic electronics debugging

- Careful and consistent. Hardware that flies has to be built the same way every time, and you take that seriously

- You've built physical things — personal projects, robotics teams, Formula SAE, RC aircraft, drones, a workshop in your garage. Tell us about them

- Willing to do the unglamorous work. Some days are assembly and testing, and those units still have to be perfect

- Curious about why things fail and persistent enough to find out

- Comfortable in ambiguity — processes here are still being written, and you'll help write them

### Nice to have

- You know how to fly. A private pilot certificate, student pilot time, or any flight training is a real bonus. Pilots understand the cockpit environment these devices live in, and we'll lean on you for more than device build — flight testing, data collection, ride-alongs, and translating what actually happens in the aircraft back to the engineering team

- Familiarity with aviation systems, avionics, or general aviation aircraft

- CAD, 3D printing, or fabrication experience

- Basic scripting for test automation or data validation

### Why this role matters

Pilots trust their lives to the systems in front of them. The device you build is the first link in that chain — if it doesn't capture clean data, nothing downstream works. Interns here own real units going to real customers, not side projects.

### What you'll get

- Hardware that ships — your work flies in aircraft at flight schools, airlines, and the U.S. Air Force

- Direct access to the founding team and every part of the stack, from hardware to AI

- A path to a full-time role for interns who prove they can own the build

### How we work

- Find a way. We don't wait for permission or perfect information. Ideas come from anywhere regardless of title. Figure it out, ship it, iterate.

- Creativity over control. First principles over process. We'd rather have a creative solution that's 80% right today than a perfect one next quarter.

- Update fast. Come in with a hypothesis, throw it away when the data says otherwise. Ego has no place here.

- Intensity with focus. We work hard because the mission demands it. Clarity on what matters is how we make that sustainable.

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