Electro-Optics Systems Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)
About The Position
The Electro-Optical System Design Department is seeking an Electro-Optical Systems Engineer Intern to support the Advanced Products & Solutions Mission Area in developing and building advanced electro-optical systems. The intern will join a design team working on systems such as imagers, passive and active EO tracking, LIDAR, and directed energy systems. The intern will contribute to assessing system architectures, developing system requirements, and supporting design and build efforts. The work includes assessing mission and system requirements and deriving design and performance requirements for subsystem and unit levels. The intern will also learn about verification and test activities and help create an integrated verification and validation (IV&V) plan that meets program requirements. The Electro-Optical Systems Design Department provides systems engineering expertise in the Electro-Optical Systems domain to Space and Airborne Systems. Typical department roles include EOS system architects and system design engineers, integrated product team leadership, lead systems engineers, chief engineers, requirements engineers, and EO systems analysts.
Requirements
- Be pursuing a bachelor's or advanced degree in Physics or a STEM field and remain actively enrolled through the internship/co-op session.
- Have a minimum of 30 credit hours by the start of the internship/co-op session.
- Have experience with electro-optical infrared imagery, focal plane technology, lenses, or apertures.
- Have experience with fundamental optical principles, including geometrical optics, physical optics, imaging systems, aberrations, or detectors.
- Have hands-on experience with optical testing or alignment through coursework or lab work.
- Experience may be obtained through job experience, research, coursework, or projects.
- U.S. citizenship is required because only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
- Be able to obtain a security clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Internship or project experience related to opto-mechanical engineering, photonics, infrared physics, or optical systems.
- Experience programming with C++ or Python.
- Experience or coursework in signal processing, image processing, tracking, computer vision, or machine learning.
- Knowledge of systems engineering architecture and design, integration and test, and verification and validation approaches.
- Experience using MATLAB for data analysis.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Responsibilities
- Assess electro-optical system architectures.
- Develop requirements for electro-optical systems.
- Support design and build efforts for advanced electro-optical systems.
- Assess mission and system requirements and derive design and performance requirements for subsystem and unit levels.
- Understand verification and test activities and assist in creating an IV&V plan that meets program requirements.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- 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 collective-bargaining coverage
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
