Research and Development (Detroit Research Center) - 2027 Summer Student Program

Detroit R&D Center
Disciplines: Engineering Majors, Computer Science, Data Science, Material Science, Applied Economics.

Our interns will work with top scientists to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by increasing fuel efficiency, develop transportation technologies, and analyze future mobility modes.

Computational Modeling Intern Opportunity
Utilizing AI and computational modeling to research and develop innovative technologies that promote the internal combustion engine as a clean, efficient and sustainable mode of transportation.

• AI-powered automation for pre-CFD setup, post-CFD data processing, and HPC job preparation.
• AI-enabled CAD and geometry workflows for model generation, cleanup, and simulation preparation.
• AI-based advanced sampling methods for efficient design-space exploration, test matrix generation, and system optimization.

Global Technology Analysis Intern Opportunity
Perform and communicate comprehensive technical analyses to inform the development of the Technology Outlook and long-term strategy for sustainable company business growth. Key areas of emphasis include new energies, transition minerals, advanced materials, digital artificial intelligence, and diversified industrial sectors.

• AI-based data mining, covering the whole supply chain from extraction, refining, manufacturing, to end use and recycling.
• Supply-demand dynamics modeling, including technology adoption, demand modeling and scenario analysis.
• Technology and supply chain analysis including life-cycle analysis, techno-economic analysis, total cost of ownership analysis, and trade-flow optimization
• Data visualization: Archie Materials, Power BI or Web-based interactive dashboards.  
• Technology Outlook reports: batteries, H2, transport technologies, etc.

Materials Analytics Intern
The intern will support the development of Archie-Materials, GTAT’s supply chain visualization and analytics platform for carbon and critical materials. This role focuses on improving data-driven understanding of material supply chains, including cost, emissions, availability, and market dynamics, to help identify sustainability opportunities and potential business value for Aramco.

• Collect, clean, and organize supply chain, cost, emissions, and materials datasets from public, commercial, and internal sources.
• Support data mining, quality assurance, and large-scale database management for carbon and critical material supply chain analysis.
• Conduct cost, environmental, and market analyses across the full material supply chain to identify key trends, risks, and business opportunities.
• Develop visualizations, dashboards, and summary insights to communicate supply chain findings to technical and business stakeholders.

Energy Analytics Intern

The intern will support the development of Archie-Energies, GTAT’s global energy supply chain and greenhouse gas tracking platform. This role focuses on analyzing oil, natural gas, power, and carbon capture and storage pathways to support life-cycle assessment, carbon intensity benchmarking, and the positioning of Aramco’s lower-carbon assets.

Typical Activities include:

• Collect, process, and manage large-scale datasets related to oil, natural gas, power, carbon capture and storage, and associated greenhouse gas emissions.
• Support life-cycle analysis, carbon intensity assessment, and benchmarking of global energy supply chains using the Archie-Energies platform.
• Assist with Archie platform development by improving data workflows, visualization features, and user-facing analytical tools.
• Explore and prototype AI-enabled features for interactive data analysis, automated reporting, and improved insight generation.
• Conduct techno-economic and policy analysis of energy and carbon management. pathways, evaluating the impacts of regulations, carbon markets, incentives, and emerging climate policies on supply chain competitiveness and sustainability strategies.

Propulsion Technology Intern Opportunity 
Develop sustainable and innovative propulsion technologies through experimentation to reduce carbon footprint and achieve zero criteria pollutants, including advanced engine combustion and aftertreatment concepts, novel fuel formulations, and mobile carbon capture.

• Support pilot scale carbon capture operation including laboratory analysis of solvents and solvent development/formulation, and/or process simulation in AspenPlus
• Carry out advanced fuel formulation research on developing fuel component database, performing refinery streams analysis, and constructing physical property model for fuels
• Support the development of lower carbon footprint solutions for transportation, including testing data analysis and 0-D/1-D simulations of powertrain performance and system level assessment for hybrid electric vehicle powertrains
• Support the development of advanced aftertreatment system for ultra-low pollutant emissions vehicle, including experimental testing, data collection, data analysis and system level and controls integration.

Transport Technology Integration Intern
Research solutions on how to integrate fuel technology, combustion research and engine after treatment design while adding in custom electronic controls. Then combine these pieces together into an integrated vehicle to demonstrate the technology's viability and performance.

Typical Activities Include:

• Creating and modifying Simulink models for embedded controller code generation
• Electrical schematic definition and creation in Visio
• 3D scanning and modeling of vehicle and engine integration projects
• Software and code debugging
• Electronic component and system level debugging

Opportunities eligible for internship course credit (credits earned), please check with your Academic Advisor or University.