2027 Summer Intern- Electrical Engineer Intern

CHAOS Industries•El Segundo, CA

21h•Onsite

About The Position

CHAOS Inc. is seeking Embedded Software Engineer Interns for Summer 2027! This is a paid, in-person, 12-week internship role. Embedded software is where our hardware becomes a system. You'll write the firmware that runs on our sensor nodes and the software that keeps them synchronized to each other. This is real-time work on real constraints: timing, power, thermal, and radios that don't care about your abstractions.

Requirements

Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree OR master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
Working proficiency in C or C++
Exposure to embedded development through coursework, personal projects, competition teams, or prior internships -a microcontroller project you built and debugged counts
Comfort with a logic analyzer, oscilloscope, or debugger, or eagerness to learn
Willingness to work on hardware that doesn't work yet
You've collaborated on the above two things as part of a group - school club, competition team, as part of a job/internship, or just with friends

Nice To Haves

RTOS experience
FPGA or HDL exposure
Linux device drivers
Python for tooling and test
robotics/rocketry/CubeSat/Formula SAE team experience
Genuinely curious about how things get built
Comfortable being wrong in front of people who know more
Eager to move fast in a cross-disciplinary environment

Responsibilities

Firmware for sensor node control, health monitoring, and over-the-air update
Timing and synchronization software across distributed nodes
Drivers and board support for new hardware revisions, including first bring-up
Interfaces between embedded targets and our signal processing and platform software
Automated test and instrumentation for hardware-in-the-loop validation