Electrical Test Engineer Intern - Power Electronics
About The Position
Archer is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented intern to join Archer. This internship provides a hands-on opportunity to gain practical experience within the inverter team. You will support the design and testing of inverter systems for our eVTOL aircraft, powering electric motors, generators, and flight actuators. Your work directly impacts flight performance, efficiency, and safety. This internship is a part of a 10-week full-time summer internship program opportunity. This role will be based at Archer’s headquarters in San Jose, California and relocation or housing will not be provided.
Requirements
- Going into the 3rd or 4th year in college career in Electrical Engineering
- Experience with PCBA layout tools
- Hands on experience designing and building electro-mechanical assemblies.
- Hands on experience debugging electrical systems.
- Good understanding of electrical circuit design and power electronics.
- Experience with Python, MATLAB, NI, or other data acquisition and analysis software.
- Experience with electrical test equipment, hand tools, power tools.
- Experience with data analysis and visualization, JMP, Python, Minitab etc.
- Strong communicator, presenter, and writer of clear technical content
Nice To Haves
- Experience with formula E, solar car or robotics is a plus
Responsibilities
- Design and build reliable test equipment to validate and certify electronic propulsion systems.
- Work together with Design Engineers, System Engineers, and Reliability Engineers to Identify design critical operating modes and create design validation test plans.
- Work with test technicians to build validation test setups and execute test plans and teardowns.
- Investigate device failures, PCBA fixture debugging to determine root cause and drive product improvements.
- Follow safety procedures for operating with and around high voltage and high power systems.
- Identify and plan critical tests to validate new technologies.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
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