Electrical Engineering Internship (Summer 2027)

Amca•El Segundo, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Electrical Design Engineering Intern works alongside our electrical team to take aerospace hardware from concept toward flight qualification. You will own a scoped electrical design project for the summer, with a dedicated mentor and direct access to the build and test engineers who will bring your work to life. This is not a shadowing program. Interns at Amca design, build, and debug real hardware. You should expect your schematics and boards to be reviewed with the same rigor as a full-time engineer's, and to have something on the bench before you leave.

Requirements

Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD program in electrical engineering, computer engineering, engineering physics, or a related field
Returning to school in Fall 2027, or graduating in Spring 2027 and interested in a full-time role
Completed coursework in circuits, electronics, or signals, and a working understanding of first principles across power, filtering, and logic
Hands-on electrical design experience through coursework, a student project team, personal projects, or a prior internship
Comfortable debugging with an oscilloscope, multimeter, and logic analyzer

Nice To Haves

Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium, KiCad, or OrCAD
Experience with circuit simulation, component selection, and de-rating
Experience on a student project team building electronics for physical hardware, such as rocketry, Formula SAE, CubeSat, or robotics
Firmware or embedded software experience
Familiarity with DO-160, MIL-STD, or other qualification and certification frameworks
Exceptionally curious and a fast learner, able to contribute across diverse part categories and manufacturing processes
Demonstrated ability to use engineering first principles to challenge and simplify requirements
Hands-on and practical, comfortable building, testing, and troubleshooting in real-world environments
Thrives with ownership and takes initiative without waiting to be directed

Responsibilities

Contribute to the design and prototyping of new electrical hardware
Support electrical design for flight hardware, including schematic capture, electrical analysis, component selection, de-rating, and PCBA layout
Build up and bring up early revision hardware, then iterate quickly based on what the bench tells you
Run bench testing and basic functional and development tests on the hardware you build
Debug failures down to root cause and carry the fix back into the design
Select components with attention to de-rating, tolerance, and availability, and defend those choices in design review
Work with test engineering to help define and execute functional and environmental test plans
Incorporate manufacturability and testability feedback from build engineers into your layouts
Help evaluate existing Amca designs for opportunities to improve reliability and reduce cost
Present your project and results to the engineering team at the end of the internship