Electrical Engineer Intern (Avionics)

Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops aviation products and technologies across avionics and surveillance engineering.

What you will do

• Support electrical, electronic, hardware, firmware, FPGA, and RF engineering activities for aerospace and avionics applications.
• Assist with circuit card requirements, schematic capture, simulation, design reviews, hardware integration, and testing.
• Contribute to FPGA development using VHDL or Verilog, including RTL coding, simulation, synthesis, timing analysis, and implementation.
• Develop and execute simulation, verification, board-level, integration, regression, and troubleshooting tests.
• Use laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, signal generators, and power meters.
• Analyze test data and maintain engineering requirements, specifications, procedures, test results, and design documentation.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Foundational knowledge of analog or digital circuits, electronic hardware, digital logic, programmable logic, RF, microwave, electromagnetics, communications, embedded systems, or computer architecture.
• Understanding of the engineering development lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, integration, testing, verification, and documentation.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, documentation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to follow technical procedures and work safely with laboratory equipment.
• Must qualify as a U.S. Person to access information, technology, software, or hardware subject to U.S. export control laws.

Nice to have

• Junior or senior standing, graduate study, recent graduation, or prior internship and project experience in electrical hardware, firmware, FPGA, or RF engineering.
• Experience with VHDL, Verilog, FPGA tools such as Vivado or Quartus, or simulation tools such as ModelSim, ADS, AWR, or HFSS.
• Familiarity with Python or Tcl, digital interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, AXI, Ethernet, or DDR, and embedded processors or microcontrollers.
• Knowledge of RF concepts, electronic and RF laboratory equipment, or avionics technologies such as TCAS, transponders, TAWS, and ADS-B.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time internship anticipated to run from May through August.
• Work alongside experienced engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Opportunity to develop technical, analytical, and professional engineering skills.
• Regulated aerospace environment with emphasis on safety, configuration control, test quality, and documentation.
• Pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks may apply.