Lighting Design Intern

Join a Team Where Engineering Excellence Drives Opportunity

At Affiliated Engineers, Inc. (AEI), we bring together expertise and innovation to solve the most complex challenges. Since 1978, we’ve supported mission-driven organizations in designing systems and environments that advance society and improve lives. Today, with more than 1000 professionals across 24 offices, we help shape the future of healthcare, science and technology, energy, education, and other vital sectors.

From elevating patient care in Mayo Clinic’s world-class hospitals to enabling discovery in high-containment laboratories for U.S. agencies and driving environmental progress with Microsoft’s renowned Thermal Energy Center, our work enriches the human experience, safeguards the environment, and pushes the boundaries of possibility.

AEI consistently earns national recognition from leading industry publications, including Building Design+Construction, Engineering News-Record, and Consulting-Specifying Engineer, with distinctions such as being named the #1 Laboratory Engineering Firm in the nation and receiving multiple Best of the Best Project awards, underscoring the lasting legacy of our work.

At AEI, you’ll join a collaborative community where your expertise fuels innovation, your ideas drive progress, and your work helps shape a brighter future.

As a Lighting Designer Intern with Pivotal Lighting Design in our Seattle office, you will join an architectural lighting design studio that brings together creativity, building science, and technical expertise. Pivotal works both independently and in collaboration with AEI's multidisciplinary teams to create lighting solutions that support architectural intent, visual comfort, human experience, sustainability, and building performance.

Why we need you:

In this role, you will work alongside lighting professionals and gain hands-on experience contributing to projects from early design concepts through documentation and construction.

You will assist with architectural lighting concepts, presentations, precedent research, luminaire selection, photometric and energy calculations, lighting controls, and physical or digital mockups. You will help document lighting designs in Revit and AutoCAD, assemble fixture and cut-sheet packages, edit specifications, support responses to Requests for Information (RFIs), and participate in project coordination and meetings.

You will learn how aesthetics, visual comfort, technology, energy performance, budget, and constructability come together in a successful lighting design.

Expertise of our most successful Lighting Design Intern:

• Enrollment in an Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Interior Design, Lighting Design, Theatre Design, Engineering, or related program.
• Strong interest in architectural lighting and the built environment.
• Curiosity about how light affects architecture, materials, perception, and human experience.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office and design tools such as Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, or lighting-analysis software.

Effective skills to help you flourish:

• Strong visual, written and verbal communications skills.
• Excellent organization and time management skills.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and within collaborative, multidisciplinary teas.
• Willingness to learn, ask questions, test ideas and participate actively in the design process.

When you work here, you can expect:

• A flexible, collaborative environment where your well-being matters - because your best work happens when you’re supported.
• Real opportunities to grow - through mentorship, professional development programs, and exposure to high-impact projects across disciplines.
• To collaborate with inspiring teammates who challenge the status quo, foster innovation, and pave the way for future leaders.
• A benefits package that offers health, dental, vision, and retirement, a performance-based year-end bonus, and thoughtful perks tailored to your needs - whether that's a flexible work environment, wellness resources, or community-focused initiatives, we’ll continue to invest in.

If this dynamic environment and the chance to contribute to transformative projects resonate with your ambitions, we would love to connect with you. Join us and make an impact!

Apply online at https://aeieng.com/about/careers/

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