Electrical Engineering Internship (Summer 2027)

Overview

The Electrical Design Engineering Intern works alongside our electrical team to take aerospace hardware from concept toward flight qualification. You will own a scoped electrical design project for the summer, with a dedicated mentor and direct access to the build and test engineers who will bring your work to life.

This is not a shadowing program. Interns at Amca design, build, and debug real hardware. You should expect your schematics and boards to be reviewed with the same rigor as a full-time engineer's, and to have something on the bench before you leave.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and prototyping of new electrical hardware
  • Support electrical design for flight hardware, including schematic capture, electrical analysis, component selection, de-rating, and PCBA layout
  • Build up and bring up early revision hardware, then iterate quickly based on what the bench tells you
  • Run bench testing and basic functional and development tests on the hardware you build
  • Debug failures down to root cause and carry the fix back into the design
• Select components with attention to de-rating, tolerance, and availability, and defend those choices in design review
• Work with test engineering to help define and execute functional and environmental test plans
• Incorporate manufacturability and testability feedback from build engineers into your layouts
• Help evaluate existing Amca designs for opportunities to improve reliability and reduce cost
• Present your project and results to the engineering team at the end of the internship

Basic Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD program in electrical engineering, computer engineering, engineering physics, or a related field
• Returning to school in Fall 2027, or graduating in Spring 2027 and interested in a full-time role
• Completed coursework in circuits, electronics, or signals, and a working understanding of first principles across power, filtering, and logic
• Hands-on electrical design experience through coursework, a student project team, personal projects, or a prior internship
• Comfortable debugging with an oscilloscope, multimeter, and logic analyzer

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium, KiCad, or OrCAD
• Experience with circuit simulation, component selection, and de-rating
• Experience on a student project team building electronics for physical hardware, such as rocketry, Formula SAE, CubeSat, or robotics
• Firmware or embedded software experience
• Familiarity with DO-160, MIL-STD, or other qualification and certification frameworks
• Exceptionally curious and a fast learner, able to contribute across diverse part categories and manufacturing processes
• Demonstrated ability to use engineering first principles to challenge and simplify requirements
• Hands-on and practical, comfortable building, testing, and troubleshooting in real-world environments
• Thrives with ownership and takes initiative without waiting to be directed

Additional Requirements

• This internship is on-site in El Segundo, California.
• Occasional travel to vendors or other Amca sites may be required