Summer & Fall 2025 Electrical Engineering Intern - Wallops Island, VA

Peraton is seeking a Summer & Fall 2025 Electrical Engineering Intern in our Wallops Island, VA location to support our NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract (NSROC) program. NSROC implements the work of the NASA Sounding Rocket program (NSRP) to fully design, build, integrate, test, and fly sounding rockets via expendable suborbital rockets to study a host of scientific objectives.

Interns at NSROC are given the opportunity to work on flight hardware and flight designs including design, analysis, and testing, as well as apply theoretical knowledge to solve real world engineering problems.

This position is on-site at Wallops Island, VA. There is no relocation/housing assistance for this role.

The Electrical Engineering Intern develops skills and principals of electrical engineering through their support of special projects within the sounding rocket electrical engineering group.

Specific duties include:

Design and utilize ground support equipment to test and validate telemetry system components.
• Perform environmental qualification testing of new sounding rocket components.
• Develop programming applications to test and validate components utilizing software in C, C++, C# and Matlab.
• Research and develop new engineering and specialty products.
• Develop technical documentation to evaluate and check electronic systems.
• Document the results of design, analysis and testing project tasks for technical reports and meeting presentations.
• Develop electrical engineering skills, principals and application approaches through participation in mission testing activities and reviews.
• Training will be required in Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)

Required Qualifications:

• HS Diploma and some advanced level training.
• US Citizenship.
• Enrolled at an accredited university pursuing a BS/BA or MS/MA degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Physics or related field.
• Exposure to C and C# programming.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Must be local to the Wallops Island, VA area and/or able to commute on-site daily.

Desired Qualifications:

• 3.0 and above GPA.
• Preference is given to students who can "co-op" through either spring and summer or summer and fall. Summer only is on a limited basis.
• Rising Junior and above level student status is strongly preferred.
• Experience with microcontrollers and PLD's.
• Experience with lab equipment such as multimeters, power supplies and oscilloscopes
• Experience in developing software applications in C and C#.

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