Engineering Intern

Huntington Ingalls Industries; City of Syracuse (NY); On-site; USD 41,000 - 76,000; Part time

Job summary

HII – Mission Technologies, Warfare Systems (WS), invites Engineering Interns for 2026 to assist with design and analysis of embedded systems at ISR heart. You will work on microcontrollers, FPGAs, SoCs, and MPSoCs, contributing across R&D and product development.

Ideal candidates are pursuing engineering degrees in Electrical, Software, or Mechanical disciplines, with hands-on experience in PCBAs, schematics, and tests.

Qualifications

• Engineering Intern 2–4: working towards a Bachelor's degree with varying credits completed.
• Experience in schematic capture, PCB layout and design verification testing is preferred.
• Familiarity with high-speed serial links and mixed-signal design is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, development, and testing of complex electrical (digital, power, RF and analog) products or systems.
• Conduct prototype development activities to ensure specs and milestones are met.
• Documentation of designs for internal use and cross-functional teams.
• Collaboration with other engineering disciplines on system and board level details.
• Hands-on system and board level integration and testing; draft test plans and procedures.

Skills

Embedded systems

Electrical engineering

Software engineering

Mechanical engineering

Education

Engineering Intern 2: pursuing Bachelor's degree 20-40%

Engineering Intern 3: pursuing Bachelor's degree 40-60%

Engineering Intern 4: pursuing Bachelor's degree >60%

Tools

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Design verification testing

IBIS models

High-speed serial links

Job description

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Requisition Number:30196

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type:Part Time/Hourly/Non-Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range:$40,911.00-$76,000.00

Security Clearance:Ability to Obtain

Level of Experience:Intern

This opportunity resides with Warfare Systems (WS), a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division. Warfare Systems comprises cyber and mission IT; electronic warfare; and C5ISR systems.

HII works within our nation’s intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace and anticipate emerging threats. Our capabilities in cybersecurity, network architecture, reverse engineering, software and hardware development uniquely enable us to support sensitive missions for the U.S. military and federal agency partners.

Meet HII’s Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense – the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that’s right for you.

Are you a mission driven individual who is looking for a meaningful career? This isn't your average mission!

Join HII – Mission Technologies and make a difference by joining us as an Engineering Interns for 2026. The ideal candidate will have a strong academic background in Electrical, Software, or Mechanical Engineering. In this role you will aid with design and analysis for highly complex embedded systems at the heart of various Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems.

Applicants should have a high degree of flexibility and creativity to develop successful design solutions that utilize the latest embedded system techniques including microcontrollers, FPGAs, SoCs, and MPSoCs. Applicants will be involved in all stages of R&D projects as well as product development projects.

• Research, design, development, and testing of complex electrical (digital, power, RF and analog) products or systems.
• Conduct prototype development activities to ensure compliance to specifications and project milestones.
• Promote effective design and development processes.
• Ensure optimal performance of designs.
• Design complex PCBAs and/or other integrated electrical systems and components, including cabling and wire harnesses.
• Design and development of mixed signal systems with MCUs, MPUs, FPGAs, DSPs, SoCs, sensors, power electronics, analog front-end (ADC, DAC), RF front end, high speed memory.
  (DDR3/4), high speed serial communication (SGMII, Aurora, PCIe Gen 3, USB 3.1) and low speed serial communication interfaces (UART, I2C, SPI).
• Conduct analyses addressing issues such as failure, reliability, capacity or capability.
• Documentation of designs for internal use and consumption by other subject matter experts, other engineering disciplines and program management.
• Collaboration with other engineering disciplines and subject matter experts on system and board level design details.
• Hands on system and board level integration and testing; including the drafting of test plans and procedures, rework instructions and other documentation as needed on a design specific basis.

Minimum Qualifications

• Engineering Intern 2 - High School Diploma or equivalent + Must be working towards a Bachelor's degree with between 20% and 40% of the required credits completed.
• Engineering Intern 3 - High School Diploma or equivalent + Must be working towards a Bachelor's degree with between 40% and 60% of the required credits completed.
• Engineering Intern 4 - High School Diploma or equivalent + Must be working towards a Bachelor's degree with more than 60% of the required credits completed.

Preferred Requirements

Experience with:

• Defining requirements, performing schematic capture, executing or managing PCB layout, and executing design verification testing to ensure designs meet project needs
  Multi-Gbps serial communications links, simulation of high-speed serial communications links utilizing IBIS models, S-parameters etc.
• Power analysis; DC drop, power plane impedance, decoupling analysis
• EMI/EMC testing, debug and interpretation of results from testing and experiments
• Radar, EW, software defined radio, and electro-optical system design preferred

Ability to:

• Work on multi-disciplinary engineering teams
• Work in an environment with rapidly changing priorities

Physical Requirements

• Job performance will normally require only minor lifting and carrying of boxes of records or equipment.

HII is more than a job - it’s an opportunity to build a new future. We offer competitive benefits such as best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; Savings Plan Options (401(k)); financial planning tools, life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; as well as early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships.Bonus/other non-recurrent compensation is occasionally offered for qualified positions, and if applicable to this role will be addressed by the recruiter at the screening phase of application.

Why HII
We build the world’s most powerful naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas, sky, land, space and cyber. Our workforce includes skilled tradespeople; artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) experts; engineers; technologists; scientists; logistics experts; and business administration professionals.

Recognized as one of America’s top large company employers, we are a values and ethics driven organization that puts people’s safety and well-being first. Regardless of your role or where you serve, at HII, you’ll find a supportive and welcoming environment, competitive benefits, and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career.

Together we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

Do You Need Assistance?
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Reasonable accommodations are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address. Additionally, you may also call 1-844-849-8463 for assistance. Press #3 for HII Mission Technologies.