Electrical Engineering Intern (Summer 2027)(Onsite)
About The Position
RTX/Collins Aerospace is hiring an Electrical Engineering Intern for Summer 2027 in the Resilient Connectivity Products Hardware Department in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The intern will work with experienced engineers to design and develop digital hardware for high-performance communications products, including software-defined radios and data links used in ground, airborne, and space applications. The role offers practical experience applying academic knowledge across the hardware design lifecycle in a collaborative engineering environment. The internship includes circuit card design activities such as requirements and schematic capture, design documentation, signal integrity analysis, printed circuit board stackup and routing instructions, layout coordination and review, test-plan development, testing, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis. The intern will also select components and help analyze factory and field failures. The posting describes the position as onsite and states that U.S. citizenship is required because the work involves information accessible only to U.S. citizens.
Requirements
- Be pursuing a bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or a related STEM field.
- Remain actively enrolled through completion of the internship/co-op session.
- Be a U.S. citizen; the posting states U.S. citizenship is required to access information under the program/contract.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with digital electronics design principles and techniques, such as circuit designs using microprocessors or microcontrollers, DSPs, FPGAs, ADCs, or DACs.
- Experience working with laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes and analyzers.
- Experience with schematic capture tools such as Mentor Graphics DxDesigner, Siemens Xpedition Enterprise, Cadence Allegro, Altium, or KiCad.
- Experience with signal integrity analysis tools such as HyperLynx for circuit card design.
- Working knowledge of digital circuit design parameters such as throughput, rise time, clock frequencies, and propagation delay.
- Knowledge of computer hardware components such as processors, memory, and interfaces, and characteristics such as throughput, processing architecture, timing, and capacity.
Responsibilities
- Perform circuit card design lifecycle activities, including requirements capture, schematic capture, design documentation, signal integrity analysis, printed circuit board stackup and routing instructions, printed wiring board layout coordination and review, test-plan creation, and root cause analysis.
- Create and analyze electrical schematics.
- Select components needed to implement design requirements.
- Test and troubleshoot electronic circuitry.
- Assist with digital hardware factory and field failure root cause analysis.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Flexible work schedules
- Employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Potential annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation, depending on position level and other factors
- Relocation eligibility
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
