Sensors Intern
Location
Redwood City, CA
Level
Internship
Department
Energy
Type
Salary
$68,000 - $72,000
Job Description
Posted on:
2026-06-05
Responsibilities
- Relentlessly optimize meteorological sensor manufacturing processes
- Design and fabricate tooling and fixtures for soldering, conformal coating, and assembly workflows
- Bring calibration systems to production readiness and improve existing calibration infrastructure
- Develop new measurement tools and methods for sensor characterization
- Investigate and eliminate sources of bias, systematic error, and contamination
- Research and develop new sensors and test them in flight
- Analyze flight performance data, categorize trends, and present findings
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM field
- Hands-on hardware skills: soldering, CAD, machine shop, 3D printing, laser cutting
- Strong physics intuition and first-principles thinking
- Ability to work with LLMs to accomplish software tasks
- Python proficiency for data analysis and scripting
- Linux/bash comfort — ability to navigate systems and run scripts
- High agency: can own projects end-to-end with minimal oversight
