Power Electronics Internship (Summer 2027)

Join CesiumAstro, a leading company in advanced power electronics for space and military products. As a Power Electronics Intern, you will work alongside experienced engineers, contributing to design projects and gaining hands-on experience in laboratory characterization and troubleshooting. This internship offers valuable benefits, including health, dental, vision, and company stock options.

Collaborer avec des ingénieurs expérimentés en électronique de puissance pour acquérir une expérience pratique.

About CesiumAstro

If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, CesiumAstro is the place for you. We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team

Responsibilities

• Contribuer à des projets de conception qui soutiennent un programme en cours ou avancent la feuille de route technologique de l'équipe.
• Participer à la caractérisation en laboratoire et au dépannage des systèmes d'électronique de puissance.
• Knowledge ofdifferent DC-DC power converter topologies (e.g.discrete linear regulator, Buck, Buck-boost, Flyback, Forward, Half-bridge, Full-bridge)
• Experience with analysis and simulation tools such as SPICE, LTSPICE, SIMetrix/SIMPLIS, PLECS, Simulink, MATLAB, MathCAD, ANSYS Q3D and SiWave, or HyperLynx
• Strong fundamentals in electronics and completion of course work in one or more of the following areas: power electronics, modeling and control of power electronics, control theory, linear systems theory, non-linear system theory, power systems, and analog electronics

Requirements

GPA of 3.5 or higher

• Hands-on experience with lab instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, frequency response and impedance analyzers, electronic loads, power sources, and signal generators
• Current enrollment in a Master of Science (MS), or PhD program in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited university with a focus in analog or power electronics

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Practical experience designing and building power electronics hardware for a research project, competition team, extracurricular activity, prior internship, or for an advanced electronics engineering course
• Experience with electronics schematic capture and printed circuit board (PCB) layout tools such as Altium, OrCAD, Allegro or Xpedition
• Experience with power magnetics modeling, design and laboratory characterization
• Experience with voltage mode or peak current mode control, including control loop modeling and laboratory characterization
• Experience in power electronics applications utilizing GaN or SiC wide bandgap power semiconductor devices
• Knowledge of soft switching and resonant power converter topologies (e.g. LLC, CLLC, series resonant, phase shifted full bridge, dual active bridge, etc.)
• Programming skills to support hardware test and data processing(Python, MATLAB, etc.)