[digler999]

make sure you have a github or some sort of portfolio of personal projects you've done. Write your own kerbal, or wind-tunnel simulator, drone autopilot, something that shows you are captivated by the field and took matters into your own hands to work with it.

Also, prepare to work in a formal-verification development environment. Some aerospace jobs are like this, which basically means code moves as slow as molasses. If it's flight control software, you may find yourself writing 20 pages of documentation/paperwork for every one page of code. (Think about it, if your code could destroy a $12 million jet engine, you should be pretty confident your code actually works, right ?). So research CMMI [1] and if that is a dealbreaker for you, make sure you avoid those kinds of jobs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model_Inte...