Electro-Optics Systems Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)
About The Position
The Electro-Optical System Design Department is seeking an Electro-Optics Systems Engineer Intern to support the Advanced Products & Solutions Mission Area in developing and building advanced electro-optical systems. The intern will work on a design team developing systems that may include imagers, passive and active electro-optical tracking, LIDAR, and directed-energy systems. The intern will contribute to assessing system architectures, developing requirements, and supporting design and build efforts. The work includes assessing mission and system requirements, deriving design and performance requirements for subsystem and unit levels, and supporting understanding of verification and test activities to help create an integrated verification and validation (IV&V) plan that meets program requirements. The Electro-Optical System Design Department provides electro-optical systems engineering expertise to Space and Airborne Systems. Department roles include system architects and design engineers, integrated product team leadership, lead systems engineers and chief engineers, requirements engineers, and electro-optical systems analysts. This is an onsite internship in Goleta, California. U.S. citizenship is required. The role requires the ability to obtain a security clearance, although the posting lists the clearance type and status as not required.
Requirements
- Be pursuing a bachelor's or advanced degree in Physics or a STEM field and remain actively enrolled through completion of the internship or co-op session.
- Have a minimum of 30 credit hours by the start of the internship or 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.
- 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
- Support the development and building of advanced electro-optical systems, including imagers, passive and active electro-optical tracking, LIDAR, and directed-energy systems.
- Assess system architectures and develop system requirements.
- Support electro-optical system design and build efforts.
- Assess mission and system requirements and derive design and performance requirements for subsystem and unit levels.
- Support understanding of verification and test activities and help create an IV&V plan that meets program requirements.
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 eligibility for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
