Advance Technologies - Autonomous Engineering Intern

- Intern

Hagerstown, MD

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Advance Technologies - Autonomous Engineering Intern will provide support for the Software Engineering team. Activities will include designing reliable, functional, and cost-effective vehicle control software; develop and test programming for vehicles and systems; support various systems through troubleshooting or reprogramming the system. This role will work on a variety of key projects and initiatives ranging from simple tasks to more complex analytical projects.

Responsibilities

• Assist the advanced technologies group (design, industrial, electrical, controls, etc.) with multiple tasks involving the systems engineering functions.
• Contribute to the development of a fully autonomous robot using a JLG machine.
• Investigate novel aspects of autonomy such as motion planning, navigation, and perception.
• Collaborate with cross functional groups to define stakeholder needs.
• Support the development of requirements, design, and verification within team projects.
• Generate engineering calculations to support trade-off analysis and simulations.
• Assist in the development of system prototypes to validate requirements.
• Perform or assist in the testing of complete machines or vehicle sub-systems.
• Design, model and test new systems that integrate with a machine.

Requirements

• Student working towards a Master's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Robotics, Software Engineering or other related engineering field.
• Experience with navigation system and performance analysis of navigation systems.
• Experience developing and integrating state estimation algorithms for localization, calibration, mapping, or SLAM applications in robotic systems.
• Experience with object-oriented programming.
• Proactive delivery of communication and follow up.
• Must have the ability to independently prioritize and accomplish work within time constraints.
• Experience with ROS2, C++, and Python.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of various degrees of information.

Nice-to-haves

• Previous internship experience or work-related experience.
• Ability to work independently while prioritizing workload.
• Proficiency in modern software development workflows and practices, including version control, pipelines, and unit testing, and peer review.
• Flexible and adaptable to working under tight deadlines and/or changing needs.
• A desire to learn multiple disciplines of engineering.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package
• Professional development opportunities
• People-first culture
• Training opportunities