Communications Engineering Intern

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Join us in shaping the next generation of resilient communications, networking, and infrastructure for U.S. Government sponsors, including strategic and national-level command-and-control communications and other mission-assured systems. This position provides challenging opportunities to apply and expand knowledge in RF and communications engineering, while developing creative problem-solving, software, systems engineering, and technical skills.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the design, analysis, and testing of RF and communications systems
• Assist with modeling, simulation, and performance evaluation of RF components and system-level architectures
• Contribute to laboratory testing, data collection, and analysis of RF hardware or communication links
• Help develop software tools, scripts, or automated workflows for RF analysis, test, and signal processing
• Document technical findings, test results, and engineering recommendations
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineers in RF, signal processing, software, and systems engineering
• Support trade studies and technical assessments related to RF performance, link budgets, or system requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Interest in communications engineering demonstrated through coursework or extracurricular involvement in RF communications, signal processing, or electromagnetic physics

• Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship.
• Sustained excellence in academic performance

• Excellent communication, presentation, and writing skills
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance
• Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing technical reports, presentations, and/or production-quality code
• Experience with systems engineering processes for communication systems, including requirements development and review, verification and validation, end-to-end architecture analysis, and link budget analysis
• Experience with agile software development and object-oriented programming, scripting, and/or simulation tools such as C/C++, Java, Python, or MATLAB
• Experience with signal/waveform development
• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and system-of-systems architecture frameworks such as Cameo/MSOSA
• Experience with SDR platforms and RF test equipment such as USRP, spectrum analyzers, vector signal analyzers, and channel emulators

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

None

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$46,500 - $58,000 - $69,500 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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