Electrical Engineering Internship (Summer 2027)

Amca develops and manufactures critical aerospace and military components and subsystems, including avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components. The Electrical Engineering Intern will own a scoped electrical design project, designing, building, testing, and debugging hardware for flight qualification while collaborating with electrical, test, and manufacturing engineers.

What you'll do:

• Contribute to the design and prototyping of new electrical hardware + Support electrical design for flight hardware, including schematic capture, electrical analysis, component selection, de-rating, and PCBA layout + Build up and bring up early revision hardware, then iterate quickly based on what the bench tells you + Run bench testing and basic functional and development tests on the hardware you build + Debug failures down to root cause and carry the fix back into the design
• Select components with attention to de-rating, tolerance, and availability, and defend those choices in design review
• Work with test engineering to help define and execute functional and environmental test plans
• Incorporate manufacturability and testability feedback from build engineers into your layouts
• Help evaluate existing Amca designs for opportunities to improve reliability and reduce cost
• Present your project and results to the engineering team at the end of the internship

What they're looking for:

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD program in electrical engineering, computer engineering, engineering physics, or a related field
• Returning to school in Fall 2027, or graduating in Spring 2027 and interested in a full-time role
• Completed coursework in circuits, electronics, or signals, and a working understanding of first principles across power, filtering, and logic
• Hands-on electrical design experience through coursework, a student project team, personal projects, or a prior internship
• Comfortable debugging with an oscilloscope, multimeter, and logic analyzer
• This internship is on-site in El Segundo, California
• Occasional travel to vendors or other Amca sites may be required
• All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a US person as: any individual who is granted U.S. citizenship; or. any individual who is granted U.S. permanent residence ("Green Card" holder); or any individual who is granted status as a "protected person" under 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3)
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium, KiCad, or OrCAD
• Experience with circuit simulation, component selection, and de-rating
• Experience on a student project team building electronics for physical hardware, such as rocketry, Formula SAE, CubeSat, or robotics
• Firmware or embedded software experience