Research Engineering Interns

Penn State University • University Park, IL

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Command, Control, and Communications Innovations Division of the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State University is seeking engineering undergraduate interns to work part-time with senior technical staff to research, design, develop, integrate, and test advanced wireless RF communications systems. ARL is an authorized DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes all transitioning military members to apply. ARL’s purpose is to research and develop innovative solutions to challenging scientific, engineering, and technology problems in support of the Navy, the Intel Community (IC), and other federal government customers.

Requirements

• Software development and design
• Signal Processing
• Digital logic and hardware development

Nice To Haves

• Computer Networking
• Communications protocols
• OSI stack UDP/TCP/IP
• Familiarity with wireless specifications such as cellular(4G/5G)/Wi-Fi (802.11)
• FPGA development
• Microcontroller and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) development
• MATLAB/LabVIEW modeling and simulation
• RF principles
• Embedded software/hardware
• Wireless/cyber security
• Assembly language programming
• Malware Analysis
• Hardware debugging

Responsibilities

• Algorithm development and/or software design
• Develop C/C++ or equivalent code to interface with developed hardware and associated interfaces (SPI, I2C, etc)
• Integration of Software Defined Radio (SDR) hardware/software components as appropriate
• Evaluate/develop communication security protocols

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Associate degree