Engineering Intern - Electrical & Electronics

As an Electrical Engineering Intern, you will play a hands-on role in designing, developing, and testing solutions for customer-facing projects. In this role, you will take technical ownership over key components, rapidly prototype ideas, and participate in the hardware development process from ideation to production. This internship is designed to accelerate your technical growth, giving you the chance to make measurable contributions while building a strong foundation in professional engineering practices.

Contribute to the design of electrical and embedded systems for customers across various industries

Technical Mentorship: Partner closely with a mentor who will provide technical guidance, feedback, and support throughout the entire internship

Perform schematic capture, PCB layout, component selection, and electrical prototyping

Test & Validation: Utilize standard lab equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, etc.) Current enrollment in college (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Math, or related field)

First or second year circuits classes and knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals

Familiarity with at least one programming language (e.g., Python, C, C++, R, etc.) or hardware description language (e.g., Demonstrated passion and curiosity for electrical engineering

Experience with one or more of the following: analog circuits, mixed-signal designs, embedded programming, RF, power electronics, or optical systems development

Experience in team-based design and build projects (e.g., Formula SAE, Solar Car, CubeSat, Rover Challenge, etc.)

Experience with analog small-signal circuit design (filters, op-amp circuits, signal conditioning) and/or power electronics designs: regulators, load drivers, supply filters, protection circuitry

Salary: $70,400 annual salary, prorated for length of internship

Flexible work hours and work from home policy

100% employer-paid health insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision) for employees + 50% dependent coverage

Accrued paid time off policy, accrued sick days policy, and paid company holidays

401(k) retirement account and employer matching (Safe Harbor 4%)

Housing stipend bonus

Catered lunches, snacks, and accessible kitchen

As an engineering intern, you are expected to embody them in every design decision, debugging session, and team interaction:

The best engineers are the ones who never stop learning.

Communicate blockers early, document your work thoroughly, and follow through on what you commit to.

Build the Right Thing: Understand the customer need behind each technical requirement and make design decisions that are practical, reliable, and built to last. Good engineering solves the real problem, not just the interesting one.

SOE is an engineering consulting firm that specializes in electrical, electromechanical, and embedded systems. Founded in 2016, we’ve grown from a 3-person operation to a team of 25+ engineers across offices in El Segundo, CA and Redmond, WA. In that time, we’ve completed over 250 projects for more than 100 clients. We structured the company this way because we believe the people best equipped to advance our mission are the ones doing the work.

We break challenges down to their most fundamental components, which is how we find solutions that hold up across industries, use cases, and engineering functions. We focus on solving the right problems and building the teams to take them on.

Applicants must be able to commit to an internship from Tuesday, September 8, 2026 to Friday, December 18, 2026

Applicant must be willing to work 40 hours a week on-site in El Segundo, California, USA

Applicant must be eligible to work on export controlled projects

Job Type: Full-time (Salary)

S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.employment with SOE is governed on the basis of excellence and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.