Systems Engineering Intern, Largo, FL (Onsite)

RTX•Largo, FL

1d•$37,000 - $82,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a Systems Engineering Intern within Collins Aerospace’s Strategic Defense Solutions organization, you will collaborate with experienced engineers to help develop and deliver advanced communication solutions for critical customer and mission needs. The internship is based onsite in Largo, Florida, and offers training, tools, mentorship, and hands-on experience in aerospace and defense. No prior industry experience is required. You will work with a cross-functional agile team and a mentor, applying Collins Aerospace engineering processes. The work includes evaluating features and designs, supporting trade studies, integration, testing, and verification planning, and participating in hands-on laboratory work. You will create, decompose, and trace requirements for military communications systems used in air and ground applications, and use a model-based systems engineering application to create logical and physical design diagrams. The internship provides mentorship and exposure to Mission Systems experts, including systems engineers, security and crypto certification specialists, customers, and engineering teams. You will gain experience with model-based systems engineering, laboratory work, modeling tools, and systems engineering processes used to deliver security-hardened products.

Requirements

Be pursuing a bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer/Computer Science Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering, and remain actively enrolled through the internship/co-op session.
Have at least 60 credit hours completed by the start of the internship/co-op session.
Have experience prototyping electronic systems, which may include embedded processors and/or FPGAs; experience may come from work, research, coursework, or projects.
Be a U.S. citizen, as required for security-clearance eligibility.
Have an active, existing, transferable U.S. government-issued Secret security clearance before the start date, with the clearance active on day one.

Nice To Haves

Experience programming embedded processors.
Experience with Linux.
Experience in digital design, including FPGA design.
Experience using laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, DMMs, and signal generators.
Systems engineering experience, including capturing customer requirements, developing concepts of operations, or deriving and tracing system and subsystem requirements using MBSE tools such as Magic Draw or similar SysML-based suites.
Experience working in an Agile environment on integrated teams alongside software, hardware, cyber, or systems engineering development teams, using Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence.
Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Experience with automated test scripting and automated data analysis.

Responsibilities

Work as part of a cross-functional agile team.
Coordinate closely with a mentor while using Collins Aerospace engineering processes.
Participate in feature evaluation, design efforts, trade studies, integration, testing, and verification planning and activities.
Participate in hands-on laboratory work, from setup through validation.
Create, decompose, and trace requirements for communications systems on military air and ground platforms.
Use a model-based systems engineering application to create logical and physical design diagrams.