Hardware Engineering Manager jobs in Irvine, CA

Position Title:  HW Engineering Intern
Salary range: $25-$35

Palomar Products
Founded in 1970 and located in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, Palomar Products is a global leader in highly reliable secure intercommunication systems for airborne and naval military applications. This includes switching and crew-position units for airborne, shipboard, unmanned, and ground applications for multi-mission platforms.  Our systems operate in over 250 unique aircrafts and 9 classes of naval warships around the globe. Palomar Engineering team is working in Agile environment with multi-disciplinary teams.

Job Summary
Palomar is looking for a talented and highly motivated Electrical Engineering Intern to join the Hardware Development team and help develop electronic boards incorporated into current and future generations of our Secure Communication System (SCS). The ideal candidate will be motivated, talented and will be eager to learn about hardware development in the defense and aerospace industry. The Electrical Engineering intern will be assisting our senior engineers in designing and testing products on tasks such as schematic design, layout design, lab tests and software integration.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
 

• Support circuit design efforts at the schematic level and select components based on given requirements
• Support board layout development, inspect final layout before production
• Utilize development boards and COTS evaluation boards to prove out circuit designs for new technologies
• Test circuit boards to prove they function as expected, debug design errors as required and perform failure analysis on problem areas
• Build, test and modify product prototypes
• Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems
• Work with firmware and software developers to test and integrate products

• Familiarity with FPGA components such as Xilinx’s FPGAs
• Familiarity with serial communication protocols such as: I2C, SPI, PCIe, T1, Ethernet, etc.
• Familiarity with signal processing algorithms, experience implementing algorithms in MATLAB
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Strong interpersonal skills to enable working, interfacing and interrelating with diverse personnel and dynamic teams
• Motivated self-starter with excellent oral and written communication skills.  Must be comfortable preparing and presenting data in front of peers and/or external customers

• 3rd year student for B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer engineering, or equivalent

*To comply with U.S. export laws and regulations, Palomar Products Inc. operations in the U.S. may only employ "U.S. Persons" as defined by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

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