Mechanical Assembly, Integration and Test Intern

HRL Laboratories • Malibu, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Join Us for an Unforgettable Summer Internship Experience!
Looking to grow your skills, build your network, and have a little fun along the way? Our Summer Internship Program offers the perfect mix of hands-on experience and community-building activities designed to support both your personal and professional development.
Over the course of the summer, you’ll dive into meaningful work that will expand your knowledge and challenge you to think creatively. But it’s not all work—we believe in balance.
You’ll also get the chance to:
Connect with fellow interns and early-career professionals through engaging networking events
Unwind with movie nights, beach days, and celebrate National Intern Day
Explore our cutting-edge science during two half days of guided laboratory tours, where you’ll visit 8 of our top research facilities and see innovation in action
Whether you’re looking to kick-start your career or simply learn more about the exciting work we do, this is more than just an internship—it’s your first step into a vibrant, supportive, and forward-thinking community.
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HRL Laboratories pioneers the next frontiers of physical and information science. Delivering transformative technologies in automotive, aerospace and defense, HRL advances the critical missions of its customers to help them remove limitations and create competitive advantage. HRL then transitions the work back to customers – ready for real-world application. For more than 70 years, HRL’s rich portfolio of scientific discoveries and engineering innovations continues to build on each other — often in unexpected, profound and far-reaching ways. As a private company owned jointly by Boeing and GM, HRL prioritizes purpose over profit, significantly advancing the state of the art.
Sensors & Electronics (SEL)
HRL Laboratories develops radiofrequency, millimeter-wave and electro-optical sensors using state-of-the-art materials and device fabrication processes to deliver agile, mission-ready systems. Our high-performance solutions are highly integrated, architecturally low cost, and optimized for size, weight and power efficiency while leveraging commercial, custom and novel mixed-signal innovations.
Position Summary:
This Summer internship opportunity encourages you to explore multiple facets of engineering in a single role from design to detailed analyses, programming, and hands-on integration and testing. This opportunity will challenge you to work on pioneering technologies in a mission focused environment. HRL is seeking a Summer Intern to support the design, simulation, programming, and integration and testing of drone mounted sensors. In this role, the candidate will join a diverse team of engineers and scientists to primarily support system integration and tests and participate in system design, perform complex analyses in preparation for the experimental tests alongside a team of HRL professionals.

Requirements

• Students currently in upper-level undergraduate course work in Mechanical, Electrical, Electromechanical, Mechatronics, or other engineering related disciplines.
• Coursework covering mechatronics design is desired.
• Hands-on experience in design, integration and test of mechanical assemblies and electronic systems.
• Hands-on experience integrating and testing mechanical and electrical system components is highly desired.
• Experience with software for mechanical hardware design (e.g. SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor), electrical design (e.g. Eagle CAD, Altium Designer), finite element analysis (e.g. Ansys, COMSOL), programming languages (e.g. Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW) will highlight a strong candidate.
• Knowledge in mechanical design principles from the component to subsystem level, including GD&T, and hands-on experience in mechanical assembly integration and testing is a must.
• Familiarity with electrical engineering design software, standard electronic test equipment such as oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, and signal generators.
• Working knowledge of electronic parts and components, including connectors, cables, printed circuit boards and device packages.
• Basic understanding of electronic and/or RF systems is a plus.
• Experience in a university research lab, or industrial research and development company is a plus.
• US Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government security clearance
• Must been enrolled in an educational program following the end of your intern assignment

Nice To Haves

• Coursework covering mechatronics design is desired.
• Hands-on experience integrating and testing mechanical and electrical system components is highly desired.
• Basic understanding of electronic and/or RF systems is a plus.
• Experience in a university research lab, or industrial research and development company is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work with RF and electrical engineering teams to design, simulate, integrate, and test mechanical and thermal assemblies to meet customer requirements.
• Perform simulations of mechanical systems (FEA of CAD components and assemblies) and electronics systems (SPICE simulations) for electronics and RF subsystems.
• Prepare design specifications, component drawings, assembly drawings, tolerance analysis and interface control documents with application of GD&T and develop system assembly instructions.
• Integrate and validate system hardware in a laboratory environment.
• Contribute to software development to monitor, control, and acquire data from and RF subsystems.
• Present progress and key findings in technical staff team meetings.

Benefits

• 80 hours of Sick time
• Relocation stipend for students relocating and renting in the Malibu, CA area for the summer.

What This Job Offers

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