Computer VisionMachine Learning Intern, 2027

Company Overview
ACS (Allen Control Systems) is a defense technology company building precision robotic systems for the United States and its allies. Founded by two former U.S. Navy electrical engineers with deep experience in robotics and software ACS brings together AI computer vision precision motion and advanced hardware to solve complex defense challenges across land air and maritime environments.

Our flagship product Bullfrog is an autonomous precision weapon system that transforms existing weapons into highly accurate counter-drone systems giving warfighters a scalable cost-effective response to one of the fastest-growing threats on the modern battlefield. Bullfrog is deployed with U.S. forces and ACS works with organizations throughout the U.S. military and national security community.

Following a $200 million Series B at a $2.2 billion valuation ACS is rapidly expanding manufacturing accelerating Bullfrog deployments and developing the next generation of autonomous battlefield systems. This is an opportunity to join a proven fast-moving team and help scale technology with direct real-world impact on national security.

ACS is headquartered in Austin Texas with additional operations in Alexandria Virginia; Mountain View California; and Huntsville Alabama. For more information visit .

Our interns arent fetching coffee or shadowing theyre working alongside the same engineers building the systems we ship. This is early-career work with real stakes.

Location: Austin TX (on-site)

Duration: Summer 2027 (10-12 wks)

Pay: Paid internship

Team: Small hands-on direct impact

What You Could Work On:

• Models that detect track and classify drones and other aerial threats in real time

• Training data generation and pipeline work the unglamorous but critical foundation of any good model

• Getting models to run fast on real embedded hardware (like NVIDIA Jetson) not just in a notebook

• Experiments in sensor fusion tracking robustness and performance under real-world field conditions

(Were keeping this general on purpose exact projects depend on where things stand next summer but this is the flavor of work youd be doing.)

What Were Looking For:

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering Robotics or a related field

• Coursework or project experience with PyTorch TensorFlow OpenCV or similar

• Comfortable in Python with some exposure to C a plus

• Genuine interest in real-time perception models that have to work in milliseconds not just on a benchmark

Why ACS:

• Direct impact: your work ships on hardware being fielded to protect real people not stuck in a slide deck.

• Real ownership: no red tape. Youll work directly with the engineers building Bullfrog from day one.

• Small team big scope: at a startup this size interns take on real problems not busywork.

• Mentorship from engineers whove designed and fielded real defense systems.

Allen Control Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Allen Control Systems prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

Required Experience:

Intern