Capgemini Invent / Cambridge Consultants - Engineering Co-op - Embedded Software

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Your Role

Are you a talented Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering student? Would you like to work on a wide range of diverse, fast-paced, and challenging projects within multidisciplinary teams? If so, you might be just the person we need.

Capgemini and Cambridge Consultants

The Cambridge Consultants brand under Capgemini develops breakthrough products, creates and licenses intellectual property, and provides business consultancy in technology-critical issues for clients worldwide. For more than 50 years, the company has been helping its clients turn business opportunities into commercial successes, whether they are launching first-to-market products, entering new markets, or expanding existing markets through the introduction of new technologies.

The Capgemini Group is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided every day by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries, reporting 2023 Global revenues of €22.5 billion. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs.

Role Description

The newly-formed Embedded Software (ESW) group in North America develops innovative new technology to enable world-leading wireless communications capabilities for US Government applications. We are looking for talented, passionate ESW engineering students with an interest in designing and implementing systems using advanced engineering design principles to create new capabilities in the areas of wireless communications, sensors, audio processing, and image processing systems.

In this role you will design and develop prototype systems that demonstrate novel capabilities for a diverse range of products. Whereas Cambridge Consultants has produced innovations linked below for commercial entities, our team has been spun out in order to provide this sort of advanced capability for US Government clients.

• Ultra-reliable communications for satellites
• IP block acceleration of Voice Activity Detection using custom in-house DSP cores 
• Map-based indoor navigation using sensor fusion
• Next generation commercial radio receiver design
• Communications system for a fleet of bots in a challenging indoor environment

You’ll engage with clients that are stretching the art of the possible by combining a thirst for solving problems, a desire to push technology to its limits, and a creative and collaborative mindset.

Qualifications & Experience

What you’ll bring

• A passion for embedded software with a desire to broaden your horizons in new and exciting areas.
• Pursuing an MS or BS in a field related to embedded software (e.g., computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, physics, mathematics, etc.)
• Some software development work experience: this can be internships, co-ops, personal, or open-source projects
• C, C++, or Rust programming and software engineering skills
• Experience with scripting and analysis tools such as MATLAB or Python
• Good testing habits: unit testing, system testing, regression testing, etc.…
• Verbal and written communication skills to convey your designs and ideas.

The following are not required, but experience in any of these areas would be advantageous

• Experience in developing in a Linux environment.
• Experience in writing and debugging software on embedded platforms.
• Experience with common microproc