Technical Operations Intern - Hardware & Logistics in Salt Lake City, Utah at PALLADYNE CORP

Location: Salt Lake City, UT (On-Site)

Schedule: Approximately 20 hours per week with flexible scheduling

Compensation: $19–$28 per hour

About The Role

Palladyne AI is seeking a Technical Operations Intern to help keep technical equipment available, ready, and in the right place when teams need it. You’ll support the provisioning, tracking, staging, shipping, recovery, and purchasing of hardware used for sales, demonstrations, engineering, and customer deployments. This is a hands-on internship combining equipment coordination, basic IT and hardware work, logistics, purchasing, and planning.

Palladyne AI is a U.S.-based defense and industrial technology company that delivers embodied AI-powered collaborative autonomy solutions, advanced avionics, precision-manufactured components, UAVs, and advanced aerospace design services.

What You’ll Do

• Track equipment across sites and manage assignments, shipping, returns, repairs, storage, and inventory audits.
• Provision computers, assemble deployment and demonstration kits, and verify standard configurations.
• Consolidate equipment requests, forecast upcoming needs, and identify potential shortages.
• Order equipment and coordinate vendors and delivery schedules.
• Track equipment readiness and communicate needs, risks, and status across teams.
• Help ensure equipment is available in time to support sales, demonstrations, engineering, and customer deployments.

• General IT and computer hardware aptitude.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, and follow-through.
• Basic knowledge of Linux and networking.
• Ability to follow established technical procedures and standard configurations.
• Experience with logistics coordination, equipment or asset management, shipping, inventory, or related work.
• Experience with purchasing and vendor coordination.
• Strong planning and cross-functional communication skills.
• Ability to work on-site in Salt Lake City approximately 20 hours per week.
• Robotics experience is helpful but not required.

Location & Work Setting

This is an on-site, part-time internship in Salt Lake City, Utah. The position is expected to work approximately 20 hours per week, with flexibility in how those hours are scheduled.

Benefits & Perks

This is a part-time internship and is not eligible for Palladyne AI’s standard full-time benefits package.

Work Authorization & Clearance

This position requires the ability to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship. Depending on the nature of the work, the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance may be required. Candidates may be asked to provide additional information relevant to clearance eligibility in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

The Fine Print

No third-party candidates will be accepted. Palladyne AI is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.