Electrical Engineering Intern-Defense Systems

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Period of Work: May-August 2025

Full-Time: 40 hours a week

Location: Huntsville, AL

In Office Requirement: 5 days a week onsite

Clearance Requirement: Will be submitted for U.S. Government Security Clearance

MITRE's Huntsville, AL site has a diverse work program including weapon systems, system assessments, Ground-Based sensors, space systems, command/control/battle-manager/communications systems, Cyber Security, and models and simulations. Our primary areas of mission concentration include defense and space systems, sensors, systems integration, systems engineering, radar engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Apply technologies to solve problems of national significance
• Antenna or sensor design or assessment
• Modeling and Simulation
• Radar Systems Engineering

Basic Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
• Sustained excellence in academic performance
• High level of desire to help nation solve its most critical problems
• Exhibits the characteristics of a continuous learner
• Demonstrated interest in serving the public
• Ability to obtain Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with MATLAB and similar modeling & analytic tools
• Electromagnetics, Signal Processing, Control Theory undergraduate course completion
• Active Secret Clearance preferred

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):
Secret

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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