Electrical Engineer Internship
Location
Redwood City, CA | United States
Job description
We are looking for a qualified and motivated intern seeking an exceptional opportunity to gain real-world electrical engineering experience. At the completion of your internship, you will have had the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge power electronics solutions and complete multiple physical products/projects as a tangible demonstration of your acquired expertise and skills. This is a paid internship, and we require a minimum commitment of 15 hours per week.
Job summary
This role will require you to be flexible and perform many different tasks, including but not limited to:
- Testing electrical circuits and components using computer-controlled data collection
- Analyze the data collected and visualize the data using python
- Designing and building surface mount electrical circuits
- Design 3D models for different projects
- Testing high-voltage circuits (10s of kilovolt)
- Research on cutting edge technology such as ion propulsion and induction plasma
- Perform hands-on tasks such as building ion propulsion drone or assembling power supply prototypes
Job responsibilities
- Design circuit topologies that are optimized for the product including component selection and design tradeoffs
- Assembly of surface mount PCB board and test of circuits after assembly
- Design and build an ion propelled drone including the mechanical structure and the super-lightweight on-board power supply
- Testing ion propelled drone prototypes, which usually involves >40 kV
- Contacting business partners to enquire about their products
- Any other tasks that the management may deem necessary to complete client project deliverables
Requirements
- Must have basic electrical engineering knowledge
- Good physics and math skills required
- Hands-on experience in building things is preferred
- Able to pick up new skills rapidly and being able to adapt to different roles in the company
- Coding skill is preferred
- Self-motivated, driven, independent, and able to work without supervision if necessary
- Works well in a fast-paced environment and is able to communicate well with others
- Willing to try out different tasks every day
- Creative thinking and the ability to think on the spot
- Smart and hardworking
Benefits
What you will gain from this internship:
- Experience with lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and multimeters
- Advanced power electronics knowledge, such as a class-E amplifier
- Reading engineering drawings and assemble circuit boards from just those drawings
- Data analytics skills
- Improve your hands-on skills to practically solve a problem
- What it takes to run a start-up
- Many other skills you’ll pick up on a daily basis from PhD-level engineers with multiple patents to their names
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