Software & Controls Engineering Intern – Automotive/Aerospace

Acscm; Verona (WI); Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Part time

Job summary

ACS, based in Verona, Wisconsin, seeks a Software Development Engineering Intern to join our team for the summer of 2027. You will work with engineers to design, build, and commission test systems for automotive and aerospace applications.

Responsibilities include creating 2D schematics, programming HMIs and data acquisition systems (LabVIEW, Python), and performing system tests at our facilities and customer sites.

Qualifications

• Students in Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronic or Robotics Engineering with 3rd and 4th year preferred.
• Experience with measuring devices (DMMs, oscilloscopes, sensors, etc.)
• LabVIEW experience would be a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Generate or review 2D schematics and shop drawings for DAQ and control systems (AutoCAD).
• Program and integrate HMIs, data acquisition systems, and control systems (LabVIEW, Python, NI, etc.).
• Create software functional specification, control sequences, design specifications, panel layouts, and wiring diagrams.
• Design, set up, and perform system functionality tests on equipment in our fabrication facility and at customer sites.
• Maintain quality customer and vendor relationships.
• Perform onsite startup and validation of equipment.
• I/O checkout and troubleshooting.
• Calibrate instrumentation.
• Validate programming.
• Tune PID loops.
• Obtain, review, and report on equipment quotations, proposals, and technical submissions.
• Solicit bids, review bids, specify, and purchase electrical and controls equipment for projects.
• Work to meet client deadlines including balancing multiple priorities and responding to changes in deadline, scope, and design as they occur.
• Ability to diagnose and perform hands on repair of all types of equipment and instrumentation (mechanical and electrical test equipment, measurement devices, actuators, control systems, motor drives, pumps, valves, regulators, etc.)

Skills

Mechatronics

Python

LabVIEW

Teamwork

Electrical measurement

Education

Electrical/Mechatronic/Robotics Engineering student

Tools

AutoCAD

LabVIEW

Python

NI hardware

Job description

ACS, based in Verona, Wisconsin, seeks a Software Development Engineering Intern to join our team for the summer of 2027. You will work with engineers to design, build, and commission test systems for automotive and aerospace applications.

Responsibilities include creating 2D schematics, programming HMIs and data acquisition systems (LabVIEW, Python), and performing system tests at our facilities and customer sites.