Intern - Advanced RF Applications - R&D Graduate - Summer
What Your Job Will Be Like
The Advanced RF Applications department is seeking an exceptionally motivated electrical and computer engineering graduate intern to support Radio-Frequency (RF) hardware and software and Radar Signal Processing algorithm development. Tasks may include high level Software Defined Radio application development and testing, RF/Microwave circuit design and testing, Antenna design and testing, data analysis, signal processing, and both laboratory and field measurements.
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Assist staff engineers with the prototyping, characterization, and troubleshooting of RF/microwave and antenna hardware in state-of-the art laboratory facilities.
- Brainstorm solutions to complex problems of national security significance and contribute to interdisciplinary technical solution proposals.
- Serve on field-test team traveling to remote test sites to troubleshoot and test novel communications and sensing equipment.
- Develop and test communications and radar signal processing algorithms at multiple scales (embedded to server farm class).
Posting Duration
This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.
Qualifications We Require
You bring the confidence and skills to be eligible for the job by meeting these minimum requirements:
- Earned bachelor's degree
- Currently attending and enrolled full time (or scheduled to graduate in the spring) in an accredited science, engineering, or math graduate program
- Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0
- Ability to work up to 40 hours per week during the summer
- U.S. citizenship
Note: If you have not yet started your graduate program, please apply to an undergraduate intern position.
Qualifications We Desire
- Highly motivated to support National Security related work
- Pursuing an advanced degree in Electrical Engineering
- Ability to work independently or on a team
- Ability to interact with internal and external partners and customers
Relevant coursework and/or experience in at least three of the following eight areas:
- F/Microwave/Analog circuit design
- Software Defined Radio
- RF Communications Systems
- RADAR
- Signal Processing
- Embedded Systems (Hardware/Software)
- Electromagnetics modeling and antenna design
- Firmware implementation of signal processing algorithms in FPGA or DSP
- High-level programming competencies
- Laboratory skills and knowledge of RF and Antenna related test equipment
- Field test experience
- Knowledge of Matlab/Simulink or equivalent (Octave)
About Our Team
The Advanced Radio Frequency Applications department researches, develops, evaluates and deploys specialized RF systems for a number of national security applications including space based, airborne, and terrestrial RF communications, Command and Control (C2), remote sensing, nontraditional Electronic Counter Measures / Electronic Warfare (ECM/EW), and specialized Tagging, Tracking, and Locating (TTL) systems. Members of the department have broadly varying skills including RF/microwave circuit and system design, antenna design, digital signal processing, embedded system hardware and software, digital system design, operational field-testing development/support, and program/project management. Design challenges include highly miniaturized electronic system design, communication system architecture, ultra-low size, weight, and power (SWaP) hardware, ultra-low-noise receivers, and signal extraction/classification techniques in low Signal-to-Noise-Ratio environments. We are tightly integrated with other departments in the Advanced RF Applications business area and regularly partner across organizational boundaries internal and external to SNL, to include working closely with Government/Military partners to consistently deliver high-impact solutions to some of our nation¿s most difficult national security problems.
About Sandia
Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:
- Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
- Extraordinary co-workers
- Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
- Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
- Flexible schedules, generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*
World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov
*These benefits vary by job classification.
Security Clearance
Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.
Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.
EEO
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.