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Period of Work: May-August 2025
Full-Time: 40 hours a week
Location: Bedford, MA and McLean, VA
In Office Requirement: 5 days a week onsite
Clearance Requirement: Will be submitted for DHS Suitability Clearance
CSH leverages deep technical knowledge, engineering expertise, and prototyping capabilities to develop, evaluate, and test creative and practical solutions that facilitate tech transition and inform acquisition. In our electronic systems and engineering role we innovative and practical solutions in the areas of sensing, communications, processing, and more, and works across MITRE to define and deliver technical products to meet critical mission challenges.
As an Intern working in electrical or computer engineering, you will work with a team to apply your knowledge and gain experience with one or more of the following:
Electronic warfare, antennas/electromagnetics, sensors/radar, photonics, and signal processing
Communications, spectrum, and position, navigation, and timing (PNT)
Electronics and embedded security
Rapid electronic and hardware prototyping, advanced manufacturing, design, mechanical and reliability analysis
System Development, modeling, system analysis, and transducer design
Basic Qualifications:
Must be a student enrolled full-time pursuing an accredited degree seeking program in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related degree program and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship
Knowledge of electrical engineering theory and one or more of the following: digital signal processing, wireless communications, computer architecture, embedded software, embedded security, cryptography, analog design, RF/EM, sensors and antennas, photonics, power systems, and software architecture and design
Sustained excellence in academic performance
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience having applied electrical engineering or computer engineering learning to an internship or research/lab position.
"Hands-on" skills in at least one or more programming language
Demonstrated interest in serving the public
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):
Fitness - DHS
Work Location Type:
Onsite
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