Electrical Engineering Internship (Summer 2027)

<div class="content-intro"><p>There was a time when all of America believed that the future of the physical world could be radically different. The engineers of the mid-1900s put a man on the moon in eight years, designed and built planes and submarines from scratch in under three, and conceived of building things we wouldn’t even be able to dream up today.</p> <p>Today, the last of the engineers who imagined and built these systems are retiring. As they go, we lose not only the engineering knowledge gained from their decades of imagination and trial-and-error, but also the spirit that made that imagination possible.</p> <p>Amca is working day-in and day-out to restore America’s ability to engineer anything that our critical systems depend on, and reinvigorate the cycle of creation that allows imagination to shape physical reality. We rapidly develop and manufacture new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. By restoring the capability of our antiquated supply chains, we increase the country’s capacity to imagine and realize new systems, and make a physical world that looks very different from today.</p></div><h2><strong>Overview</strong></h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Design electronics from concept to functional prototype, including hardware selection, PCB design, and system-level integration</li> <li>Contribute to the design and prototyping of new electrical hardware</li> <ul> <li>Support electrical design for flight hardware, including schematic capture, electrical analysis, component selection, and PCBA layout</li> <li>Build up early hardware, then iterate quickly based on results</li> <li>Run bench testing and basic functional and development tests on the hardware you build</li> <li>Debug failures down to root cause and carry the fix back into the design</li> </ul> <li>Troubleshoot issues that span the system, using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and digital multimeters</li> <li>Select components with attention to de-rating, tolerance, and availability, and defend those choices in design review</li> <