Sensors Intern
Location
Redwood City, CA
Level
Internship
Department
Energy
Type
Salary
$68,000 - $75,000
Job Description
Posted on:
2026-04-23
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 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.
- Ability to rapidly prototype, iterate, and push things to production.
- Strong physics intuition and first-principles thinking.
- Python proficiency for data analysis and scripting.
- Comfort with Linux/bash for navigating systems and running scripts.
- High agency: ability to own projects end-to-end with minimal oversight.
